Friday, December 09, 2005 | 5:49 PM

On time for meeting at sch foyer at 6.45am. Which cca is crazy enough to make u meet at such an early time? Anywaytrg was pretty bad. And Mr yazid finally totally absolutely lost it and showed his temper/attitude. Ok, put it this way:

Location: Macritchie Reservoir (somewhere there with all the nature trails and all)
Time: 8+
Distance: definitely more than 10km with all that soil/mud/stones/slpoes

Pre-trg: Briefing made by Mr Yazid where he grouped us. Weison, Nigel, Qixiang, khairul and Chenwei in the 1st fast grp. Kesther, Crystal, Kenny, Fabian and Andrew in the second. Me, Bryan, Pratibha and Bertina in the 3rd. I heard smth abt this IS a fun trg. When I asked then he said its NOT. btw his tone during briefing wasn't serious at all. At least he didn't sound anywhere near like he's instructing us. More like just fyi kind of tone ye know.

The run: Yea. The madness starts. First 1.5km was pretty ok even with that sort of terrible terrain, all groups were tog. The team was still running as one. After 2km, the 1st and 2nd grp pulled off leaving with my grp. Prat and bert being long D runners went faster while Bryan and I being sprinters slowed dwn just so little. I know my stamina rocks so just shut up. :p We reached this bridge kinda thing at abt say 3+km? then we lost sight of prat/bert. There came a junction where we have to pick a straight up tree-top walk route. Some Chinese High dude ran past and so we followed him into tree-top route. So we quickened our pace hoping to see the gals somewhere ahead. We didn't spot them and I was thinking we're on the wrong route. (obviously since we are the last 2) But I didn't tell Bryan cos there's seriously no need to alarm him and shock the hell out of myself so we just cont behind tt HCI dude. We lost him soon enough since he's some cross-country pro. And since then we never saw prat/bert. (this is beginning to sound like some MISSING drama) Huffing and puffing but no humping, we finished the 11+km run with much encouragement frm the downslopes and the really nice rainfall that chose to arrive at that time.

Post-trg: We're expecting to be questioned wtf took you guys so long. But they asked where are the girls. Ok, so they took a wrong turn and accordingly they saw snakes and were running at the tree-top thing. wow. Andrew was with them. phew. Before that Mr Yazid dispatched the 1st team to find the 2 gals and Andrew fearing smth unfortunate to befall them. When the 3 ppl returned I made a comment. Ok this is the part.. I said Andrew is lucky to be with the girls. Reason being he was not alone and they all came back safely. I suppose Mr Yazid was too worried and started snapping at me. 'Is it funny David?' omfg damn it. I didn't sound amused la c'mon. But its ok. The coach is always right. yeeea right. snorts. So he debriefed and asked whose fault is it. Obviously pinpointing at me and Bryan. C'mon man. As a coach and after so many months with us he shld know better that my stamina really suck and the only reason I'm in track is to do my part in sprints. I hold no fucking position (pun not intended) and I'm not responsible over any admin matters. (thank god) Naturally, I understand tt stamina somehow helps better sprinting but shouldn't he understand the fact that we wld slow prat/bert dwn if they are to stop constantly to wait for us. And being new to this entire trg route, we're only given each grp one very very sad looking map with only clues to how far/long you're going to run and not turning at which junctions. So at the end of the day he said, 'this was suppose to be a fun trg/run but it turned out to be not fun'. Oh man. So was today suppose to be fun or serious? wtf la. I'm confused by him. So to sum it up, he was nice enough to admit it is his fault. A bit guilty here.. I shld hv known better and told him before the start of the race but really never expected the short gap in our grp cld turn the whole trg sour. Sry mates. We'll do a better job next Wed's stamina trg yea? Beat those soccer dudes. muahahahs. Go Qixian/weison/Nigel/Khairul. While I fan myself at the finish line. Ok la my stamina rocks what. What to do. :p

The very pathetic map.