xtreme race
after a looooooooooooooooooooong time of not blogging, i'm back! missed me? ok guess not. anyway wanted to blog about this yesterday, but came home too shag already, did some homework and plonked into bed.went for raffles xtreme yesterday, otherwise known as R-X (alkyl halide?). for those who do not know, its simply 4km of running at macritchie, 500m of kayaking at macritchie too, followed by 200m of swimming by 1 person and 6m of abseiling by the other. and finally 1 round aroudn the RJ track.
i was in the mixed category with michelle (michelle ooi from odac). joined for the fun of it, since wasn't really expecting to win.
to get us warmed up for the race, we had a chartered bus ride down to macritchie. the guys teams set off first, followed by mixed and finally girls. quite a lot of ppl we know were there. there was me, michelle, meiting, haojin, nelson, bryan, tea, shaun(odac j2), sauling, angie, eleanor, gerard, gavan, gerald tay. forgive me if i forgot anyone.
soon it was our turn to set off. had a good start, we were standing right on the starting line. then when the signal was given, everyone started running. it was quite nice to run in macritchie, even though its in the middle of the afternoon, can hardly feel the sun, very nice and shady there (lots of places for rapists to hide too, so don't go there alone!)
for the whole run, we were 3rd, cept for a few mins when we were 2nd and a few seconds when meiting overtook us. michelle damn pro, we didn't stop nor slow down at all through the entire run. its supposedly 4km but jingcong says its only 3.2km. dunno la, someone tell me if can confirm.
then after the run, went to the kayaking lodge to kayak. stupid station ics damn cunning, put the kayak's stern(back of kayak) facing the water. then when we moved the kayak into the water and got in, then realised that we were sitting in the wrong direction -_- but overtook the 2nd group there, cause their kayak floated away before they could get on lol.
kayak like man, 500m and my shoulders aching now.
then after kayaking, ran all the way back to rj. wah the traffic police damn nice, even though the man was red, he still ask us to cross. now in 2nd place and in rj, michelle ran to ri pool to swim while i went to the rj bridge to abseil. felt damn bad for making michelle run the extra dist to ri pool and to swim, but too bad i suck at swimming and she's a school swimmer >_< met all the odacians there and rained all over them as they helped me put on my harness. abseiling too easy la, just zoomed down. but quite fun, and thanks to the ppl manning the station for not letting any accidents happen to me.
michelle damn fast also, within mins of finishing abseiling and drinking from the water cooler, she arrived in rj already, then piaed all the way to the track and we finished.... 2nd! w000000000!
quite surprising to get 2nd, but it was a nice surprise. didn't finish that far behind the first also. even though compared to the girls and guys category, the mixed teams were all quite noob. but nevertheless we were the pros of the noobs!
very touched to get like my first sports trophy in 5 years.... *sniff* much thanks to the very pro michelle and those who encouraged us along the way =) couldn't have done it without you'all
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