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Letter of Apology From Champion Management

I should check my spam box more often. This is what I found there!

Below is an open letter from SportsConnection, the company behind Champion brand, apologizing for the lack of organization during the Champion Run. I don’t know about you, but running brings so much positive energy into my life that I refuse to taint it with any unpleasant thoughts or harbour ill feelings towards anyone.

All I can say to the management of SportsConnections is this: please learn from your mistakes and make sure that in next year’s run (if there is any) you will: 1) have more water, 2) more marshalls, 3) start on time, 4) provide water at the end of the finish line, and 5) coordinate closely with your race organizer (When you put your name on it, it is your race. Its success or failure becomes yours too.) Peace—I have forgiven and forgotten! I don’t know about the rest.

To other runners of the Champion Race, feel free to post tactful comments and suggestions for SportsConnection to realize areas of improvement.

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Warm Greetings!

On behalf of SportsConnection, we would like to thank everybody who joined the Champion Run. We appreciate your participation in our first run event.

We would like to take this opportunity to apologize to those who have been inconvenienced by lack of water in the hydration stations set up by Fort Striders, the group we commissioned to be our race organizer.

We have distributed (personally handed) to the runners more than 2,800 bottles of mineral water and soft drinks together with some snacks and the certificates.

Please note that as soon as our president, Adi delos Reyes, found out that the stations have run out of water, he immediately instructed our staff to go get more water for the runners.

The problems you mentioned (water and not enough marshals) were supposed to be taken cared of by the race organizer. It clearly states in the contract we signed with them that they will provide water in the hydration stations, take care of the race technical aspects as well as the sound system to which we have also heard several complaints. Their shortcomings had boomerang on SportsConnection especially our brand, Champion.

We do not mean to point fingers at anybody. We take responsibility for the problems in our event but have trusted that our race organizer would take care of these aspects.

Please be assured that we only want the best for the runners as well as the sport. It is our vision to help and support PSC athletes and Gawad Kalinga.

We hope that you understand SportsConnections’ side because we too have been a victim here. All these we have taken note of and we assure you that this will definitely not happen again.

Boycotting our future events and our products is most unfair. We appeal for your kind understanding.

Thank you.

Posted on 05.31.07 to 03 Race Announcements. Tags: , , , . Subscribe to follow comments on this post. 6 comments. Add your thoughts or trackback from your own site.

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6 Responses to “Letter of Apology From Champion Management”

  1. amen to that…meaning am glad they did say what they wanted to say after all the negative impact they received after the race. i wasn’t able to race that day because of prior commitments but i did hear how topsy-turvy it was on race day. hopefully they’ll learn from their mistakes.

    and, on another note, i just also finished by new post…thought we were again talking about the “same topic”…hahaha

    you realize jaymie i always hie over to your blog and bang’s and e-rod’s and everybody else on the roll every morning now at 6AM…and return every hour to see if you’d posted…

    blog more…plod on…

    hitme64 said on May 31 07 at 2:28 PM Reply

  2. hitme64, it was really just the water that bothered me. I was kinda oblivious to everything else that was going on.

    I believe we are all certified running and blogging addicts! We should have a group for this. :) Maybe we should have text alerts when we’ve posted new entries. It’ll allow us all to be more productive at work :)

    bullrunner said on May 31 07 at 10:25 PM Reply

  3. OK what do you suppose the name for this runner bloggers group is going to be? My list of running blogs I visit is growing now too. With that and the message boards on OCTR and H@ppy Feet, I think I’m beginning to spend as much time reading and commenting about running than actually doing it. :)

    Suggestion #5 will probably have the most significant impact in improving next year’s race if there is going to be one. A close collaboration between the two organizations (SC and FS) will help reduce or eliminate SNAFUs like the ones on Champion Run. And it makes both groups accountable for whatever the outcome of the event is.

    Keep the positive ‘tude, Bull. Hopefully the Champion Run will be back next year and learn from this year’s mistakes.

    E-Rod said on Jun 01 07 at 5:49 AM Reply

  4. uyyy that’s good…text alerts…that would be better than togling back and forth until a post comes up hahahaha…sige let’s do that…

    just run a 10k today prepping for the june 10 run but i’ll taper siguro by wednesday after another 10k…prep ka rin properly…i’ll run in tandem with you if you want no problem for me setting a PR…i’d rather enjoy the run than flame out in the end…sayang si banggigay she’s doing a 5k palitan sana niya to 10k di na pwede ata…

    sige, i’ll choose whether the run for hope or adidas to run with…pag bgc ang adidas dun na lang ako…

    hitme64 said on Jun 01 07 at 6:53 AM Reply

  5. Hi Jaymie,

    thanks for stopping by my blog. You’re running club has at least style and appologizes…then it’s all not that bad!

    steph said on Jun 01 07 at 9:18 AM Reply

  6. i use bloglines.com to monitor the rss feeds of, well, everybody’s blogs whether if they’ve updated their sites or not. maybe you can try that service and see if it works for you all :) but a text alert is great too, magastos lang, hehe.

    as for champion, at least they gave a proper apology for everyone. that’s commendable, too. :)

    MrsPartyGirl said on Jun 02 07 at 3:38 AM Reply

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