wart is my problem?
yesterday took part in some man adventure race with wee pin. SAFRA AVventura. Other ppl who were there includes yizhang, shawn tan, charlene and james.had a bad start to the race, the moment we started running, meiting's hydropack's (i borrowed her hydropack) mouthpiece flew out from the tube and was lost among the other racers' footsteps. so couldn't and didn't find it. as you can guess, water started spewing everywhere from the hydropack's tube. so in a desperate attempt, i looped it around some straps of the bag, which resulted the fountain to become a slow drip that was quite cooling yet irritating. although from time to time, the loops came loose and water start spewing all over me and weepin who was beside me.
first leg of the race was some 3+km running to our first checkpoint. after finishing the first leg of the race, my leg was also finished. i sprained my right ankle, wheeeee.
thankfully that checkpoint was cycling for the next 4 checkpoints somewhere in the live firing range. so took very long to bandage my foot while we watched all the teams race away. :'(.
however, the cycling wasn't very easy, cause it was in the live firing range and we were cycling on very uneven paths, and very rocky, so its very tiring @_@
but not bad, after bandaging went on to cycle + navigation. seems like everyone else was pretty bad at navi while me and wee pin owned. we caught up with damn a lot of teams even though we were pretty slow in biking and wasted damn a lot of time bandaging my foot.
at our first checkpoint, one person run and one person bike, so poor wee pin went on to do the running. at the end of the checkpoint, we had to do a mystery task! sounds pretty scary *gasps* here goes...
"Karen is twice as old Kori. In 3 years time, their total age will be 42. What is Karen's age?"
2nd checkpoint was swimming. the activity was pretty much swimming in name only. basically you had to go along the bank in some river/lake/mudhole there. its so shallow almost everyone just walked across.
3rd checkpoint was filling a 1.5litre water bottle at a fixed position away from the shore with stuff you can find on your body. so we used wee pin's shoes which owned all the other groups also. (those who were there when we arrived were still there when we left! woots). although if you think about it, how the hell does this relate to an ADVENTURE race, filling bottles in the jungle...?
final checkpoint was super fun. its basically cycling in jungle-like terrain. everywhere is grass, then its just a small dirt path for you to cycle on. some parts are like totally muddy so your bike slips around. then even got muddy puddles that can go to waistdeep. (i fell into 1... with my bike too..) but damn fun.
wah anyway after already damn shag already. cycle everywhere. then next was going to the next checkpoint. couldn't run anymore, i can feel the sprain and like my whole leg about to cramp, basically i could feel it in my calves, my thighs, my inner thighs, on both legs... so just walk quickly lor, while watching like 10,000 teams overtake us. then we walked into some khatib bongsu place that seemed like its a part of pulau ubin, quite nice vegetation there. just walk and walk and walk.
here's where the title comes into play. no pun intended, but wart was really my problem! with all the sand in my shoes from swimming, it was really painful on my sole cause i had a total of 3 warts on both feet. summed with a cold, a sprain, thigh abrasions, butt pain and cramping legs, wah walk damn slow. even after drinking 3 packets of oral electrolytes, eating 1 packet of power gel, drinking like millions of packets of activade, and rubbing hell lot of deep heat on my entire leg until it was burning, still cannot run. quite shitty.
after that was kayaking, damn shiok, the few places where we overtook damn a lot of teams. we kayaked super fast, like faster than all the inter-army category manly ppl. depressingly, they caught up soon after we went on the shore...
after that is a long run back to yishun safra, i mean long walk. at yishun safra supposed to do rope ascending and climbing. but too many ppl, had a very bad bottleneck. so man man deng. yingzi, kelly and gavan came to support us! even brought 2 bottles of H2O! thanks!
for those who dunno whats rope ascending, you will have 2 jumars (things which you attach to the rope, then can slide up but won't come down when you pull). then you just move up the rope. quite xiong, but i realise its damn fun la.
the bottleneck caused the end of the race to be delayed from 2 to like 4pm or something. but we later found out that the prize giving ended while we were still stuck at the bottleneck. thanks organisers -_-
after that finally finished the race. damn accomplished la, cept that we had to walk pretty much the whole way. completed at 7h45min, but waited more than 1 hour for all the climbing stuff, so i guess its around 6h+? not bad for a bunch of untrained noobs. wee pin, you're the man!
the best part of the race was probably the activade which we drank, some sports drink sponsor for the event. i drank like 20 over packets of activade through the race la, quite shiok. wee pin drank about the same number lol. like each checkpoint drink at least 2 or something, then even dabao a few to drink along to way! woots
anyway for those of you who thinks that the math qn is damn easy and minus 3 instead of 6... good luck to you.
W toked kok @ 12/11/2006 08:48:00 pm
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