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| Sunday, October 16, 2005 "pain is your friend. its the only thing that lets you know u are still alive" pah. for the unacquainted, just this morning, team hungry dino has recorded their second full adventure race victory, albeit in the youth category. and not to forget creditting our kind sponsors, freescale, which provided us with much needed gear (heehee, gear =D) for the race. the race was my longest yet, seeing us finishing in a time of 6 hrs and 28 mins, including this bothersome 20 min time penalty. the mileage of the race was in excess of 30km, majority of it on painful foot. (ask pock about the word painful.) firsts on many accounts: first race we had sponsors, first race i cramped (ok, nearly cramped), first race overnight, first race i was actually the slowest for a good section of the race. see la. join the navy, they said. see the world, they said. one very prominent exclusion from the race was the lack of biking. i suspect its cause the organisers could not get permits to do trail cycling at night. so that left us with team biathlon. i bore witness to the silly yet effective method of putting 2 people on a single bike, and 1 poor bugger (guess who) running behind. i missed the biking parts tho (wont say the same for sau), simply because we covered almost 30km on foot! not to slam the organisers or anything but once again i suspect they failed to rent sufficient kayaks, which as a result saw us having to squeeze 3 persons on a two seater. a stroke of genius saw us positioning ourselves in the WORST possible position, in which neither pock or myself could pedal properly, sau was constantly being bludgeoned by paddles and the kayak was moving like a turtle and was constantly threatening to capsize. to top it off, we got ourselves stuck in the mud, and poor heroic pock had to get off, push us, and get his leg stuck, and upon being freed, impossibly cramped up. yes, laugh. actually, its pretty funny now. then of course there's no way i can forget the part where i turned into a sedan chair. for me, this was one of the hardest parts of the race. imagine carrying a 49kg backpack whose weight is somehow bearing on the bottom and you'll realise why my lower back is feeling very sorry for itself now. walk 10 steps and rest. re-position sau. walk 10 steps. repeat. then 8 steps. rest. 8 steps. stop. 6 steps. stop. 5 steps. "c'mon jamin, were are almost there" sigh. finally there was the stupid navigation in the stupid park, where we very very nearly lost it. nonwithstanding the obviously wrong last question, the other parts were ambigious, dodgy and "your guess is as good as mine". somehow (actually i know how. some genius found a map.), we stumbled around and managed to get 6 of the 8 answers (hence the 20mins penalty), as well as a little high from knowing that we were almost done with the race. so after finishing at 0508 in the morning, the 3 hour wait for the prize presentation begun. in between there was fitful sleep, pathetic baths, early morning bike rides along the esplanade, and lots of dreaming about breakfast. mmm, breakfast. so two down, and action asia calls in febuary 2006. any takers? "las noches me saben, a puro dolor" - this night i face the purest of pain |
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