Help Treakathon 2009

Hehehe....run xp follows....(p.s. wonder where the rest of you guys were...TTDI was represented by Siew Li alone...whereas lake gardens was represented in full...with a possible new convert too~! =P).....

Things begin the day before....a lovely storm that danced along portended a wet muddy trail come the day after....=\

Cue day itself...got up early.*groans*...got to college...took a ride over to the hill proper....time....7:30....race begins? 9am...groans.....hang around chatting and waiting impatiently.....jogged for a couple hundred meters to warm up before the run itself....race time!...we walk about 300-400 meters away from the hill itself....hang around waiting again...the usual announcements....bit of a thing with the female timings (ash/siew/joa/ will probably elab)...on your mark get set go!....mad dash towards the hill.....feels slightly strange to be madly dashing in a pack of people towards a lone hill in the distance....reach turnstile where lines wait patiently....no time for lines!...dash and duck under fence bars....dash dash....damn the mud....almost slip as a silly bugger in front of me slows down....spin past him...reach the bridge...and the dreaded single file uphill bit....damned slow line....climb up slowly....hoorah double lane...dash past people....run run run...downhill bit...trapped behind limp wristed afraid to fall dudes....patiently wait for the op to bypass each one....uphill bit....whew...haven't been running hills in ages....river!....run in the middle of the river against the current....luckily enough it's only about ankle deep.....bypass quite a few buggers....ooo uphill again....i wonder how long before it levels up...jog up jog up....bugger this...does it ever level up?...trek up trek up....great...i think it nvr does....it's gonna be like this till the end isn't it?....wish i had known...would have conserved energy at the start if i did....climb over trunks...push pass annoying branches....finally out!....finish line!....dash down staff lane...what? wrong lane?...dash back...and dash down another...what wrong lane?....dash back and down the third...collect a number....what? you're staff....ahh then the first lane was the right one......bugger this lot....end of race!.....collect water...glug while waiting for the next runners to come in.....the next baton goes to Joa so i'll let her tell her story....

Overall distance : have no idea...too much uphill and curves and water to really get a good measure....

Overall time : Including the 300-400m bit....20 minutes and a bit....

Overall Ranking : 17th place (out of all the departments and genders)

Male Ranking : 17th place

Staff ranking : 1st...though the commander didnt run this time around so i was one of only 2 male runners on the trek.....

Department (Bpsych) Ranking : 3rd (including both male and female runners)

All in all...a great run xp....havent run hills in ages....was nice tackling one.....kudos to all runners!.... =D...

wonder why they had that bit before the hill proper....we cant actually compare times with treks from previous years (assuming the same route was used) since there's that addition there... =\