One of my highly anticipated races of 2011, the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, has opened its doors yesterday, and then abruptly closed again!
When I first got news that the SCHK Marathon had just opened its registration I immediately rushed to the site to register (this was last night). When I got to the event selection I noticed that the full marathon option was disabled. I thought it was just a glitch or the full marathon registration hasn’t opened yet online. Today I was confronted with the truth: it was disabled because it was actually all filled up!
Here’s the announcement from SCHK’s website:
The Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2011 has received overwhelming public response. The 10km Run 3 (Start Time: 6:55am), 10km Run 4 (Start Time: 7:30am), the Half Marathon Run 1 (Start Time: 8:45am), the Full Marathon Challenge (Start Time: 6:20am) and the Full Marathon Run 1 (Start Time: 6:45am) are now closed for entry.
By today, just about a day since registration was open, most events, if not all, reached its quotas, and is now closed. This is indeed a sad news for me as I was really looking forward to this race. Oh well, maybe I’m destined to run locally that date, or maybe another foreign destination later?
runningpinoy 
Holy cow. Ganun ka bilis?
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Grabe no? Di na nga ako nag isip at nag signup agad pero gabi pa lang quota na ang 42k 😦
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Kami rin, we bought tickets to HK pa naman for my husband to join the event, closed na pala. Manonood na lang kami.
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That was why I was waiting to register first before buying tickets as these races get “sold” pretty fast! Well I hope you get to enjoy the race even from a spectator’s perspective 🙂
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Hi! I signed up on the first hour and got lucky. I think many signed up for 2011 SCHKM because they have a more liberal cut-off next year (6:00) But this is nothing compared to Boston Marathon (2011) which closed after only 7 hours. To think you have to qualify in order to reg. Di lang pala dapat mabilis tumakbo para maka Boston, dapat mabilis din mag register. Hehe.
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Wow! So even the registration process is a race for these events! 🙂
Next time I’ll put an alarm when registration opens 🙂
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ang bilis nman closed na agad may tcket pa nman na ako sayang..
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