genting weekend

awana trailblazer was a blast! 14km in about 2:09. not too bad. the mud obstacle was really fun despite the mud. total body mud spa for us. the first jump into the muddy pool, i had wanted to climb the side(to avoid going into the pool) until the marshall shouted and pointed INTO the pool. then billy told me, "must go in la!" reluctantly i nodded and replied, "orh."

the water was FREAKING cold and was it was waist level deep. we had to go into a total of 3-4 pools of water and scale 4-5 slopes of different heights.

during the first half of the trail, there was sooo much mud..mud..mud.. felt more like a long arduous trek than a run in my view. my quads were really sore during the course as the uphill went up and up and the downhill went down and down. the mud looked soooo much like melted chocolate.. i told myself i am going to stay off chocolates for a while man.

next year we'll be back.. kind of miscalculated the distance for us.. if i knew the 2nd half was so short, i would have ran hard to the end.. i thought it was still a long way to go so i just walked uphill. but whatever..at least now i know what kind of preparation is required - probably walk up the long stairs at bt timah 10-20times as training per session..that'll probably simulate the going uphill of the race a little.

next year, we're going to train properly for it and bring a gloves. camelbak isn't a necessity to have though, in my view. on the whole, it was a great way to spend the weekend.

read the race report of action asia singapore. 107 teams. i thought there'll be more people..they were catering for 150 teams. the cost is the biggest turnoff for me.. and moreover, i don't have a team mate to race with. gee.

aac hk registration is open and i am still without a team mate. what to do? what to do?

it's going to be a long monday. got to study for advanced theory test tomorrow. went thru one of the q&a book twice during trip up to genting. got to go through the other 2 times today. one more time tonight and hopefully one more time tomorrow morning. let's see how it goes. wish me luck!