ADVENTURE RACE!!! hah. I think I must be insane. One moment, I'm crazy over rockclimbing. Now, its adventure racing. Well, sport climbing is supposed to be one of the disciplines for adventure races. My virgin race was during teen games 2006. Haha. We got third. Next is Punggol pinic race. 20km!! My team got third too. Now it is NTU X-Physique and our team came in FIRST place!! Overall, against the inter-vasities including NTU and NUS, we came in SECOND. Thank God for giving me the strength to last!
The race distance was set at a gruelling 30 km. Madness. The punggol race was bad enough. Amazingly for the Punggol race, we took 3 hours 4 mins plus. For the x=physique, an addition of 10 km, we took 3 hours and 33 mins. Listen to this. We started off at orchard youth park at 12 pm. HOT! We ran all the way to Marina South, where you eat your steam boat. Thought I was going to die. SO FAR!! I really felt like giving up as my senses told me that if the first checkpoint is this far, the other 11 checkpoints would probably be at woodlants. LOL. Cycled around the place for flying kites, 3 humongous laps. Then headed to the nearby pond to swim in the awfully murky and smelly water. By then, we were 3rd position in the JC cat and overall 7th. Crazy team mates wanted to get first. Started running again to benjamin sheares bridge to get our kayak. Kayaked out to some bridge to get a crappy clue and went all the way back into the Kallang Basin. haha!! Our team managed to catch up with the rest. Stopped at the pit stop to drink Redbull and hear the person promote about what it contained. Seriously, I had no energy to listen to what she said. Ran to the DHL hot-air balloon to do some game -- Transport water from one point to another. They commented that we did the task quite quickly. HEY. Innova JC has brains ok. Ran to Shaw Towers at Bugis. Climbed up the stairs and abseiled down the building. SO FUNKY. The facilitators there were quite disappointed when they found out that our team, from INNOVA is the second team overall to arrive. What was that supposed to mean? On our passport, we had left 5 more checkpoints. The organizer told us that it would take 3 hours for the fastest team to arrive. I wondered, if we were first for jc teams, with our timing at 3 hours already and 5 more checkpoints to go, aren't we very very SLOW?? Apparently, it was a decoy. After the abseil, we had to run back to orchard youth park and thats THE END! Thank GOD. I was quite tired and worn out but it wasn't as bad as the starting sprint. =] YAY. Thats how the race went.
THE PICS
Challenge Shield for X-Physique. Our team is the first one to be carved! Go Innova!
First and Third in the JC category.
My wonderful team mates: Ja Zimin, Winston, Faris, Me Posing after the race. We stink big time!
Immense joy when we collected $2500 worth of prizes for us! MAN!
UP NEXT. boulder active competition...
Anybody interested to compete in the ntu race this june again? =]
awesome!
boulder route at Emmanuel House
BB rockclimbing program. Ropes hanging in between the krab and reverso.
Abseiling activity
climb for passion. yay!! BOULDERACTIVE coming up next...
YAY. Innova's results are out too!! 50.5% got A,B grade for a level econs. MADNESS! More to come later...
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