It’s the first running event in Lubuklinggau and
I was excited yet surprise at the same time. Why? Since Lubuklinggau is a small city in South Sumatera, I didn’t expect that the community will
held that kind of event. As far as I know, Lubuklinggau Colours Day is
initiated by Good People Creative and fully supported by Lubuklinggau
government. The event was held on January 25th, 2015 but the issue of this
event has already heard from November 2014. So I’ve already prepare to join
this event with my office mates at that time, but unfortunately I’ve got signed into
Bengkulu in December for the next 3 months. At the end of it, I was still able to join this event by
taking car rental from Bengkulu to Lubuklinggau which took around 4 hours.
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| The Tickets |
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| The Race Pack |
The ticket costs for IDR 85k and sold out a
week before the event. By paying that amount we got some amount for charity and
the race pack which consist of t-shirt, sun glasses, sticker, participant
number, and color powder. If comparing with other running event in other city,
actually the ticket price is cheaper. But I think the race pack can be better
than what I’ve got on my hand. The quality of the t-shirt is really bad in my
opinion (I never involved in color run before but from my experiences in
joining 3 running events in Jakarta, this t-shirt is the worst). We as
participant have no clue about the race route because there’s no map and
schedule in that race pack. So we have to take a look on this event’s instagram
account. I was also wondering if there’s a prize or not for the winner at the
beginning of the race
until we reach the finish line and the MC announced 15 top runners will receive
some prizes. Furthermore along the route, there’s no water station for the participant. And the worst of
it, the event was delayed more than 30 minutes because we have to wait for
someone to open this event.
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| The Gang! The leader is the one who wear those stripe pants |
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| More than 30 minutes delayed |
Besides those things, the event was pretty
cool. The committee and the local government are fully prepared for this event.
The participants got showered by colors powder in 4 points and the coolest thing is the mayor
and his wife has also join in throwing the color powder to participants. After we
reach the finish line, we faced a big stage with DJ playing the music. Ahh ya
and we received a pocket of color powder as well, so we can throw the color
powder into the air while dancing along the music. I think everyone was really enjoyed
with the ambience, except me who didn’t like sort of those things. I JUST CAN
NOT ENJOY ANY MUSIC FROM ANY DJ’s AROUND THE WORLD. Yaaah you can call me
weird, but that type of music is not suit with my ears. Although I have to
struggle to enjoy the music, the crowd was extremely great. I can feel their
energy and somehow it lifted me into higher level. Last but not least, I really
appreciate with this event’s officials who work really hard to make the city
clean after the event ended.
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| The Rave Party |
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| After party and we're starving.! |
As the first running event held in
Lubuklinggau, I must take my hat off to the committees, officials, local government, and volunteers.
You did amazing job and spread the good energy in local society. With those
criticisms above, I really hope for the better event next time. I am really
satisfied by participating Linggau Colours Day in Lubuklinggau.
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| Thumbs up for the event |
PS: For the next event’s committees, don’t
forget to add trash bin/bag along the race route. And for the next participants,
I do beg to you to not be such a litterbug in the future.
Photo credit to Deby and Vivi.
