it can be bloody long.. like 8plus hours.. spend hours navigating around s'pore, running, walking, climbing hills, (s'pore mah, where got high mountains to conquer?! haha..) trekking, canoeing, some time enjoying the rock-climbing, abseiling, swinging ropes, and the whole journey with ur team-mates, getting drizzled together, trekking thru muddy tracks, getting a nice tan, resting together to recover from cramps, pushing each other forward to complete sumthing togehter, going thru the same shit together.. yes, and thats oni the INTRODUCTION! haha..
not to disappoint my readers (and pete's readers, since he conveniently say "baolai will update, so no point he do double work! haha..)
yap, the day started with a cool cab trip down to the starting point at bukit batok nature park. sun morning, so NOT AFFECTED by the cab hike, so, HENG ARH!! (on a side note, cabbing is damn ex nowadays lar!! imagine i took cab from havelock road to raffles city, meter fare oni $4.60, but ERP and peak-hour surcharge is $4, total $8.60.. -____-")
after a toilet break that we took (30mins juz to walk to and fro from the sickening toilet) so the race started for the NOVICE (i.e. JC, poly, uni pple) at 9.40, 1hour15mins after the laojiao adventurers.. we came in 8.5hours later, which ended in chinatown..
ran downslope from the starting point to fill a bottle of river water using sponge (with the sponge flying in mid-air while being passed) was quite easy, nothing scary too..
den ran all the way to bukit timah nature park.. a run tat saw us overtake a few teams which we lag behind cos the sponge refused to co-operate with us.. haha..
den enter the forest, to look for huts with the answers that we needed in order to clear this stage.. bashing ard the forest, machiam brought us back to the good-old-days for the army! haha.. while we entered halfway, it started to rain (no lightnings though) and we were trekking in mud and flowing water streams.. being the little boys at heart, we went jumping into puddles of water so tat it splashes unto other pple, even though we r wet.. haha.. well, boys WILL BE boys! hehe..
by the time we exit, the rain stopped! den we trek the whole of rifle range to macRitchie reservoir lor.. as expected.. so walk all the way there lor, dunnoe y leh, we in a race, but the long way in front and behind us, all no pple, so not much motivation to run.. den aso tink we no energy to run.. a check-point at near the ammo dump, we realised we currently rank 35th out of 50 teams (which included the lao-jiaos who left 1.25hours b4 us) so i guess we manage the climbing not too badly.. n the stupid 34th teams is 14mins ahead of us! WTH, how to catch up?!?!
so we juz relac relac ba-long-long in macRitchie forest lor, n exit to our bike holdong area at VENUS DRIVE.. finally unto bicycle i tot.. 3plus hours of running, trekking and walking is more den enough for a day.. (erm, damnit, den how i can endure thru standard chartered marathon?! haha, n btw, registration open le!!)
den cyle all the way to kallang lor.. its damn far lar, enabled by dis thing called the "park connector" which links bishan park to kallang basin! yap, cycled thru bishan park, played a tarzan swinging thingy to swing from one side of the tree to the other.. den cycled to SAJC to do a photographic memory thingy.. den to kallang basin to canoe..
waliew, at dis point, i hav to say that after 3hours of cycling, its damn shag lah!!! mingyao n i had our thigh muscles cramping up like 3 times! (ok, fine, we r unfit, since pete din experience the cramps.. damnit.. haha..) so had to rest lar! if not how?!?! so along the way, some teams got in front of us..
time for 3men to fit into a 2-man canoe.. so pete n i canoed while mingyao sat in between the 2 canopies for a ride ard kallang basin.. 2/3 way thru, pete did a monkey climb (aka low rope) of abt 6-7metres up to one of the bridge to get our checkpoint acknowledged.. pete's bravery give us 5mins bonus, and a eye-opener when he did tat 7m confidence jump..
den we ride to the esplanade.. attempted to walk between 2 trees connected by a rope and nothing else.. 3 failed attempts = 10mins penalty (not even trying = 20mins penalty!!), yap, n off we went to tanjong pagar, BACK ON FOOT!! its the first time i prefer walking / running den cycling sia.. cos lidat thighs den wun cramp! haha..
at the keppel tower, pete n i did the rock-climbing while kong did the abseiling.. it was quite easy though.. so we moved on to kreta ayer square.. this two parts, we walked all the way, cos i was SO SO BLOODY HUNGRY (hey, u realised we went on without food for the past 7hours??)
the 3 of us completed the race in kreta ayer square.. yar, wat a place to end it u might tink.. i aso tot it was like "huh, lidat end here arh?! so no atmoshpere one lar.." -_____-"
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