The first race of 2009 took off with a bang! It has been quite awhile since Adventure Singapore that I was taking part in a large scale Adventure Race. Partnered Gerald who was kinda concussed a large part of the race. Haha. He even forgot to take the harnesses and carabiners down from the car! Gosh.. Lack of sleep..
Here's us before the race began and still looked fresh...
How the race panned out:
First phase:
A 4km run around dairy farm to bukit timah to collect our bikes. The run was alright and done at easy pace. We picked up our bikes at the "nose" area and biked off heading towards Bukit Timah nature reserve. It was frustrating, to say the least, when you get blocked at such narrow paths by people who dont dare to cycle through and keeps braking and pushing the bikes. It would test the patience of even the most zen-like monks I tell you.
We continued biking to Zhenghua park at Bukit Panjang and had a game station. We had to fix this rubric cube. We both didnt bother coz it was not possible to do without trying it before. After which we continued biking towards Mandai for our main playground of the day.
Lorong Asrama aka "the hell-ish playground" :
This phase was divided into 3 parts. Part A was to bike up all the way to botak hill and then abseil down the hill with one bike on hand. This was seriously no joke. Super heavy and shiong to carry out. But this kind of experience is once in a life time and I enjoyed it. Part B involved cycling up to training shed then push up the bike up another steep hill then cycling down. Part C was the dagger through the hearts. We had to do a team biathlon. We interchanged a couple of times and had to bash through this thick vegetation, climbed a hill and then did a "river crossing" again I had to carry my bike.
Phase 3:
Out of Asrama, we hiked/run all the way back to yishun at lower seletar reservoir. Went to kayaking station. picked up our boats and then found out that there was only one paddle in the doubles kayak. So I walked over to take one more paddle but the marshal said IT was MEANT to only have one paddle. What a way to torture us huh.. Kayak with one paddle?! Crazy but what the heck I just did it anyway.. After that we hiked all the way back to Yishun SAFRA.
Last Phase:
We had to climb this stretchable ladder the height of a 4th storey of a HDB flat. CRAZY. we were super depleted and I made it to half the height only. We did not complete and just headed for the finish line. Im glad we were done for the race. Phew!
Thank God that we came through this race safely and most importantly had fun!
Upcoming things to do..
INSTEP application.
Fs Tryouts.
Jam's bday.
Getting my new lappie from HP ! Coolness.
Thank God for all these blessings.
