It's raining again today...

Labour day rainy day...

Just had my haircut by addy.. Very nice dude :)

Gonna go for a run once the rain stop...

how did team rundown and cloud 9 fare?

Adidas sundown official finally release the race timing, hehe... long waiting result finally here...

I manage to fare better than my standard chartered which is goooood, i thought i'm a gone case after 6km of running, i actually feel like going home. :)

Heheh... update this post with my sundown run hard photo and also slacking photos... bahahaaa...

adidas sundown, team rundown, needs a rubdown

i thought running 1okm at night will be much better off than in the day, well i was wrong. Tonight is freaking humid and hot... i was tired and lack of motivation... hahaa.. must be last night mahjong, it really wasn't a good idea to continue the 2nd round after we send daxiong's gf back to novena... we went for supper at newton, carb-up for my next day run. On our way back, Mahjong Goddess entered our mind and suddenly we're heading back to daxiong's place for another round till this morning.. came back home boss haven't finished with his work.. hehe.. before i went to bed at around 7.30am.. i wash and dry the running jersey.. (mum forgot to do it for me... sob)

woke up at 4pm, feeling super shag... ate char siew rice for "lunch+dinner", and set off to changi.. everywhere in changi you can spot those runners, but not a single sight of the bapok. They are smart not to appear on sundown day... hehe..

i ran and ran till the first 5-6km.. and finally saw 1 drink store!! omg, they only have 1 drink station throughout the 10km run... save $ i guess.. worst than standard chartered run, anyway i grabbed my 2 drinks and that when everythings started to slow down, my mind telling my body. "hey, walk for awhile la.. it's okay, later you can pick up the speed." i think i'm seriously old and no longer as fit as rovering day, i remembered army half marathon i only slow down and start walking after 18km. what happened, damn!! it's mind over body seriously, my body still can run, but my mind is telling me to stop and relax a bit, you're no longer 18.. wahaaa.. at least u finished the race to the end. :) hiphip hurrary!!

both team cloud 9 and rundown went to old town white coffee at east coast for celebration, it feels great to meet up your fellow colleagues for such an event on a weekend. I guess this is how people builds friendship, hope i'm able to join them for run and sundown again after i go..

我们只要有心去完成一件事，结果如何不重要。。。

13th Aug Run

Run run away

1 more day to go.... help~~~ hee

didnt sleep well last night... *yawn*

jus now went running with my colleague at mohd sultan..
my bone are breaking, head spinning, these were the after effects~
didnt run for 3 weeks or so, find it super hard to catch up with the guys. haaa...

my 2503 sooooo kawaii~~ jus now called me, as usual we tok rubbish.. hee..
he got a habit of "multi-tasking" which he likes alot, and i loathe it.. cos he get distracted halfway thru... i was telling him, i didnt sleep last night jus to blog down his bad points.. wahaaa.. i m so *evil*... meeting him tomolo.. so happy.. hohooooooo

watching bleach, full metal panic tonight... rushing thru the anime.. long time never spend some golden time for anime.. heee...

tomolo last day of the week, wahaaa... wat a hectic week.. gonna spend more time relaxing like maybe go swim swim... nice idea.. but the pool always packed with kids during weekend. hmmmm, maybe seventh month will be less appealing to the family.. try my luck this sunday if i can get a slot for driving...

An old article... brings back good memorise

An old article...

Poly 50

Singapore Polytechnic's annual campus relay race

Times really flies, last semester was my second year in Polytechnic and also my second time taking part in Poly 50. Tension, heat, the memories of people running in bright and multi-colour singlets and T-shirts, painted faces and loud cheering from supporters around Workshop 5 were still fresh in my mind. This year 2 teams from Rovers took part, namely "B1" led by David and "B2" led by Junxiong.

Before the race, we trained hard during the PT sessions every Tuesday and Thursday, which were specially set aside for this event. Morale and team spirit were high up in the air through out all the trainings; needless to say there were pain and sweat too!

We were even told not to have spicy food a few days before the race and to drink more water to replace the loss of fluid in our body.

On 13^th March 2002, a Wednesday afternoon, all of us had to rush down to Den and get changed immediately after lessons. Eagerly, we put on our newly bought poly 50 “asics” running kit that comes in black and bright orange for this particular event. However, we were shocked to see there were 2 other teams that wore the same design as us! Determined to be different from the others, we came up with other ridiculous ideas to distinguish ourselves from other teams. We had tattoos on our arms, green coloured hair for team 1 and pink coloured hair for team 2. “Nicely decorated”, we proceeded to the car park near Workshop 5 for some serious warm up. The atmosphere was tense, teams doing their last minute warm up and taking photographs, preparing to put on their best performance for this coming "Battle".

Jane and I were the first runners for the teams. Standing in front of the starting line, the anxiety and pressure was more than I had expected. When the guest-of-honour was about to siren the start of the race, there were some jostling and pushing among the girls. Once the siren went off, everyone speeded up to the next runner of her team stationed at the end of the car park. I ran as fast as I could, amidst the loud cheering of encouragements and screaming heard along the route. It could be my imagination, but somehow I heard my team of rovers shouting and cheering, which spurred me on to run even faster. The minute I saw Guoyong waving to me ahead, I sped towards him and passed him the card. Even though I had stopped running, my heart kept on beating hard against my chest “Thud! Thud!…” non stop. It only calmed down after a few minutes. Then I felt my calf muscles starting to stiffen; I guessed my muscles felt the tension of the race too. The run continued…

The good weather held on without inconvenient of rain right to the very end.

We finished the "battle", and even though in the midst of the "battle" there were feelings of exhaustion, we never did surrendered to the heat and tiredness. We were ranked 13^th and 15^th in our category. We did our best, so everybody was contented with the end result. The guest of honour was giving away the prizes to the winning team, and seated down at the concrete ground, we were waiting eagerly for our turn to go up to the stage. At last, when our team was called, our troop flag was waving back and forth enthusiastically, whilst our traditional SP Rovers "adiji yeli" echoed in the atmosphere.

Months of training merely for this memorable day, it was worthwhile in spite of everything. Let our Rovering spirit continue to burn everlastingly…

Rovers, let's do it again!