Confusion, missing signs and plenty of fun – welcome to the Spartan Race
Cvetovic is the clear winner but it wasn’t straight forward for all runners because of the difficult conditions
Missing signs, negotiating obstacles and going off-course – welcome to the Spartan Race where anything that could happen almost did during Saturday’s event.
In an extraordinary race between Hong Kong’s top female athletes, the women’s elite division was thrown into confusion but at the end of the day, there was no hard feelings and all competitors had a lot of fun.
Thirty-one-year-old Magdalena Cvetovic was the clear winner in the race, with Nicky Inge finishing second and Gigi Chan third. However, with a “confusing” course made even more chaotic by signs that were blown over by heavy winds, concerns were raised afterwards about runners failing to complete all obstacles.
“I believe some people may not have run the whole distance,” said Gigi Chan, a 25-year-old spin-class trainer at XYZ. “I’m positive I didn’t miss anything.”
Chan said a fellow runner observed another competitor skipping 100 to 200 metres of the course by not encircling a tree at the top of a junction and then zigzagging through the running zone by several hundred metres to play catch up.
Offering the “errant” runner the benefit of the doubt, Chan admitted the course “can be quite confusing sometimes” and this can be attested by the fact that several racers did miss obstacles and signs that were blown over by heavy winds.
