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port dickson triathlon experience
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the bus ride there
packing was done super super last minute. i was in some kind of denial the night before, didn't want to go. yup we arrived there before 0800h, took out our wheels and then boarded the bus. bus ride was okay i guess. i was feeling still quite sick. was gulping down bottles and bottles of water. my mp3 player kept me alive. oh and our bus got a flat tyre -.-" delayed us by a bit..no actually, quite a lot. sigh. quite sick, sitting in that vehicle. plus i think the driver was driving super slowly. hai.
when we got there
it was about an hour from flagoff, so it was pretty rush. assembled our bikes and then got our keys and nice people helped us to carry our stuff up (: apartment wasn't that bad. better than a'famosa, but the toilet was still pretty gross. okay so i napped a bit then jc came and chased us out. haha i think if not for him, we wouldn't have made it in time.
sprint tri
was feeling giddy and all at the start line. not to mention tired..so didn't really expect much of me. just wanted to go there and warm up i suppose. swim was gross, water was icky and smelly like a'famosa. but i guess no current, so it was good la. everyone was kicking and pushing, so violent. hai. after a while i just gave up. so i just went super slow. maybe a mistake. haha. transition was okay la. not too bad. i just wasn't quite used to running with the clip shoes. was glad i managed to get onto the bike without much difficulty. bike was funn. i loved the scenery and wind and amazingly i managed to get my speed up a bit. quite satisfied with the first half. but after a while i was quite giddy so i just pulled back a bit. dismounted without falling!!! was like hooray for me. hm transition i just took my own time. delirious people don't really feel like going fast. run was total crap la. i was practically walking. trying to preserve my hip. hoho. i crossed the finish line less tired than i feel when i finish training warmup. lol. cos i think the run i was really going too slow. lol. hm but my hips still hurt after. gah :(
dinner
washed up. dinner was okay i guess. just painful to eat. bleagh. slept early. but i couldn't sleep actually. kept on waking up.
olympic dist
got there earlier. was much less rushed. felt okay i suppose. but at the start i was all giddy again. hm then swim i was dying cos of the phelgm. argh choking on it i tell you i almost drowned. kept on coughing. once again the people climbed all over me. so i just tried to take it easy. told myself just fang song a bit i guess. wanted to have fun right? amazingly i came out not long after jina. lol. quite surprised to see her at transition. transition was good i felt. mouting the bike was faster than before. okay bike i just tried my best. i had a lot of fun. ahha but downhills were freaky. it was so fun! the breeze and all. wow, my most memorable bike ride ever (: tried to catch onto packs to tryout drafting, but me being me, i'm scared of getting too close to other bikers so like duh- how to draft like that? lol. so i just survived on my own. okay la. tried to target people to keep up with. oh yes, i was feeling quite giddy on the bike, was so scared i'd lose balance or sth. my nose was running so it was gross. hurr. transition- okay after bike i dismounted better than the day before. didn't manage to drink during the ride cos i was too scared so i just gulped down a lot of gatorade at the transition area. for the run, i amazingly felt pretty good still. unsually energized so i just tried to keep my legs moving and preserve my hip so that i'd be able to complete the race. lol. was giddy like crap and i think my fever went up. cos i could feel myself burning. thank goodness for the rain and the drink stations. if not i think i might have collapsed. lol. hip started to hurt pretty bad on the way back. horrid feeling. my heartrate was pretty low, my leg muscles were fine. but then i don't know why the section in between wasn't doing so well. my mind was trying to numb out the pain. took a lot of energy from me i suppose. last 5oom i decided to just go, no point trying to preserve the hip when it already felt that bad. but uh my hip wouldn't allow it. i tried to run but i felt like my rectus femorises had given way and i just couldn't move. luckily i made it across the finish line. lol. my legs felt like jelly so i just collapsed. felt good (: but highly delirious and giddy. very hot also.
post race
still delirious. and very hot. like i was in a sauna. even tho it was raining and all. very giddy and nauseous. hm.
bus ride back
felt so sick. disgusting la. sigh okay won't remind myself of it.
okay sorry if that was not a good reflection. ahha i'm feeling very sian now. harry potter and half blood prince!!!!! so absorbing. my escape (: i think books can be quite depressing actually. read them to get out of this whole reality thing. so when i break i feel so down. hai. and to all the people out there to spoil my harry potter experience, don't you dare waste my forty bucks so keep quiet about the story or face immense discomfort. -growls. that was a threat. hahaha. i feel odd.
my times weren't actually that fantastic. okay since i was sick and injured i suppose they were acceptable. just hope i get better and my hip gets better and soon i will be able to run. bleagh.
my msn is so screwed (again). sigh. oh yes today's math lesson was good. first time i felt like i was learning real-life application. klui was unusually corny. gosh. you have to remember this quote:
"start early, reap exponentially."
-klui, math teacher who hates me