Something to do on a Sunday Morning

 What do you do at 8am in Ho Chi Minh City? Go on a fun run.  Seriously did they not think of starting it earlier - it's 33 degrees at 8am and we had just started.


The day is just beginning - look at the smiles



To explain, today is Sunday and we have all entered the Terry Fox Fun Run as part of the AIS (American International School team).  The fun run had about 11,000 participants which is pretty amazing for Saigon.  For some reason we all have to get there at 7am - thankfully we did this run last year and knew that 7.30 would be good enough.  It starts at 8am where everyone - all 11,000 entrants just start swarming down the road. 

It takes a good 10 minutes before you can actually get into a position to run then it's a 5km run dodging other runners, kids on bikes, rollerbladers, walkers, prams etc.  It's an easy run as it's dead flat but it's just so hot. 

Typical of Vietnam they do such funny things like give you waterbottles as you run past  - which is great except they leave the plastic wrapping still on the cap so you have to run, holding your iphone, trying to unwrap the bottle to get a drink. 

Then they allow wheels, like bikes and rollerblades but in the last 1 km you have to cross a bridge and you are not allowed to wear your blades so you have to stop take them off walk across the bridge, put them back on and continue - did they think that was going to be efficient.

It only takes about 30 minutes and then it's off to the Boomerang Bar to have breakfast and watch for the next hour or so as people continue to finish.

It makes for a nice start for the day.