A THOUSAND CROSSINGS X

Dear Diary...
The last Mile. :)
lundi 18 mai 2009

Before this, I was wondering how I should phrase this post so I wouldn't sound 'unsportsmanly'. But after giving it much thought, I decided that no matter how I phrase this post, there will always be people who are unhappy with me, so, so be it. :|

CONGRATULATIONS TO ROY (I DUNNO HIM), HUI YANG!!! AND...I dunno who's third. :/ Sorry. haha. I think I'm 5th of 9. :/ So lousy.

I prepared a bottle of super concentrated glucose solution this morning to be drunk right before the run. But there were some vandals, from other classes who pierced a hole in the bottle with a blue pen during the combined Chinese class with a blue pen when I was not around. After Chinese when I saw my bottle, It was half-full and glucose solution was all over Wei Xuan's and my table. I made the best of that half-bottle and gulped it all down :/ (But it wouldn't have the same effect as if i were to drink it right before the race. you'll know if you do bio)

VANDALS.

I went to the toilet sooo many times before the run. 1 I was very nervous, 2, I was trying to make sure I was really really really hydrated, so I kept drinking water. LOL.

When the race finally started, my heart was already beating very fast I was soooo jittery I froze when Mr Goh made the sound with the wooden blocks. :/ So I started last. :/ But managed to slip in right behind 'housemate' Ka Yue. Overtook him later on to glue my face to Hui Yang's "rear diffuser". I had my brief moment of being in second place on the 3/4 lap, before being overtaken by Hui Yang again on the first curve of the first full lap. :/ Argh. Ka Yue followed suit in a matter of seconds.

fast forward. Elgyn overtook me on the last lap, ended up in fifth. :)

For some reason, when Elgyn overtook me, a clip from the official Formula 1 Gran Premio De Espana Telefonica 2009 video flashed into my head. Felipe Massa was told by his crew to slow down to conserve fuel and Vettel overtook him. :/

Miscalculation. Bad pace.

I think I have given it my all today. I don't think it's because of my recent injury because I felt no pain. I think Mr Yong's comment was right. I miscalculated. My starting pace was good. But I pushed it a bit too far later on and had a problem repaying the oxygen debt later on. Sigh. :/ Inexperienced.

The 'aftermath' of the run was unpleasant and unbearable. My entire leg, starting from the bum area went weak. I was soft in the knees. I was staggering :/ Thanks WEI XUAN for helping me walk. :D

After the weak in the knees, was the non-stop panting. :/ I guess I didn't have enough glucose in blood. Felt nauseous until I took a long sip of coke when I was home. :D COKE.

Thanks Wei Xuan and SamSam for cheering me on :D (Sigh, everyone else on the grandstand was jeering. I'm not a very popular person.)

Nevertheless, congrats everyone :D/ hahaha. happy I still managed to run today. :)

I think I still belong to the range and not the track. The rifle is my best friend.

Au Revoir

yongliang

he closed his diary at {18:27}