cont'd

As expected, i never found the time to finish off that blogpost about AQ and now my memory of it is already blurry.

Haha anyway, in a nutshell: -

It started with a run... and eventually we slowed down and there was this guy who fell into the canal, bleeding n all. We were quite left behind coz we didn't really run anymore after that, till we reached the bike pick up point. Haha it was our hope really and we raced to be one of the first few teams. I fell halfway though, haha. I was trying to turn around to find Bess. But i got up in less than a minute and there we were --- whoosh! We even overtook a certain group, after which we were motivated to speed on haha. We were thriving! And the next stop was rapelling. I represented the group in rapelling and wow. It wasn't a bad experience at all, descending a real cliff is definitely much different from descending a 3 storey building. But the wait was so SO SO long that we eventually fell behind again. And it was off to the ferry station and to the 2nd leg of the race at Pulau Ubin.

It was the hiking leg.

Took a few long routes coz of misjudgement and we thought we couldn't make it at the final checkpoint coz we were only left with 20 minutes to go back out to where we started. Bess hurt both ankles and we couldn't really go fast. But Ming Hwee carried her bag and she ran anyway, just for me (: By some miracle, we made it through the 2nd leg and it was off to the 3rd leg. We had some hopes. Till a certain team caught up with us.

At the ferry terminal Bess couldn't go on any further. We sat down. It really felt as if we were defeated. According to my teammates later on, at that very moment i had a look of utter disappointment on my face. Haha now i understand why they made extra effort to explain to me why we can't run anymore. Bess' ankles were quite badly injuredd. It didn't make much difference in the end coz when we reached the starting point of the 3rd and last leg we had only 45 minutes left. That included archery, rock climbing and the last station ---kayaking - the station in whih our captain Mr Chew was stationed at. (Later on he expressed how he was met with disappointement coz his girls never appeared :( ) Anyway, that's where we stopped.

We could've done better, but we fought well.