My first trekathon... :P

And what a bloody trekathon it was... :)

Despite the rain... I was quite pumped up about it as it had been ages since I had been trekking..

Anyway.. initially, they started off by saying that girls start 5 mins later.. After all the girls were at the back of the line, the organisers changed their minds and said, everyone start together... It was a bit of a bummer cause with the slower guys holding up the rest, some of us were caught... And some of the girls were standing in the side lines had to push our ways through the moving crowd.. Kept getting caught behind people who had been running but abruptly stopped and started waling..

Arrived at the bridge and god, was the line loooong... Had to wait in line (longer than a cinema line, mind you)... I think I waited in line for a bout 5-7 minutes... Then, started the trek up the first uphill phase... Wasn't sooo bad.. Was panting at the end though... Slipped at a muddy area, but was fine.. Started the downhill trek with a bunch of girls crawling at snail pace... Tried to overtake them but they were all over the place...

Arrived at the stream and the girls were scared of the water (heehehe), so managed to swerve past them and jogged and walked my way through the stream... Was the nicest part of the whole race... Half way through the stream, some of the guys in front of me though they were lost and weren't sure where to go... I thought I was lost as well, but I kept following the stream...

Then began the monumental task of the 2nd uphill trek... The initial parts weren't so bad... Half way through, I took a break and was talking to some guys from the Business dept about what a bitch of the trek this was... :P Started singing to myself to keep motivated to continue.. About 200m away from the finish line, I start feeling faint, was seeing spots and felt like throwing up... Decided to sit down and take a rest... One of our former classmates (Yan Ling) was nice enough to come back and check up on me... :) After the rest, felt much better and started the final trek.. Was tough, but I could hear people's voices so I kept at it... What a relief it was to see the road... Took my number and met the rest of the gang (who were feasting already..)

It sucked being caught behind all those people... Lesson learnt: Don't be too nice in a run and don't wait for others who are taking their time...

Time: 57 minutes
Distance: not sure.. but according to Josephine, about 2-3km

Overall female standings: 104 (would have been less if I hadn't stopped for the break)

Staff ranking: 6

Oh well... It was my first hill run and my first trek in years... Was an interesting experience...

Now I'm actually looking forward to the 7k run as it'll probably not be as painful as this one... :P