7 sessions of Remedial Training have passed. Actually 6, cos 23 Oct 08 was a 'free day' cos of some unknown reason, and I was able to celebrate a nice cosy delicious happy fun Mexican birthday for my beautiful happy gorgeous darlingiscious Daphne at "Viva Mexico" at Cuppage Terrace. Mmmmmm I loved the brinjal/spinach/cheese appetiser.... mmmmm.......
(Daphne says she loves the nachoes starter with the spicy dip) :D
Anyway, back on topic. Today was session 8: RT Phase 1 Test day. Last night I was so zonked out after work I slept at 10.30pm and didn't open my eyes till morning. What's worse, I actually dreamt of IPPT! I dreamt that I was as the pull-up station and I did 10 pull-ups, but I forgot to zap my scorecard!!! Oh well it was just a dream haha.
Worst of all, my left hamstring was aching, and my left calf was stiff. Ouch, last year's RT IPPT was the same, and I ran 14+ mins cos my pain threshold failed me. It's so annoying! I last ran on Sunday and Monday, and it doesn't ache/strain until 3 days later? Madness! *breathes*
Anyway, I met Joseph at Khatib MRT, and he was so sweet to sponsor the $5 cab fare to Khatib Camp. As usual, there were 500 people taking the test (yeah, Charlie was number 496 while mine was 463, and Joseph was 465. Joshua felt ill and pontang, that noti boy!)
So here's how the static station went:
1st Station: Pull ups - did 10 easily (dejavu with dream?) and I double checked my scorecard! :D
2nd Station: Standing Broad Jump: 216 cm. 3 points enough for my comfort zone.
3rd Station: Shuttle Run: 9.9s - I was quite surprised this time, cos I averaged 10.3 last year oh well I'm happy hehe.
4th Station: Sit Ups - Did 32 - Slacker me hehe I calculated enough points for incentive, so 3 points enough liao. Conserve energy mah I kiasu ok? :D
Now we were left with the dreadful 2.4km run. Joseph and Charlie were like so confident.
Joseph:"I think I'll try to run 11:20min, maybe can get the $100 bonus"
Charlie:"Wah last year fail by 1 second! I better not screw up this time grrrr. Gonna do 12min flat"
Me:"Aiyo you all overtake me lor. Just pray my hamstring doesn't freeze on me" ^^'
So after waiting almost 45 mins, we were queued up to run.
1st Round: 1:50min wow that didn't hurt. Thank You Lord :D
2nd Round: 1:55min - WOW! still didn't hurt, but starting to breathe heavy
3rd Round: 2:10min - ok this is the tough part. I was almost chanting mentally "Oh Lord help me!!!"
4th Round: 2:20min - siao liao, boh lat lung pain. *Oh God halp me pleeeeasseee!*
5th Round: 2:20min - hamstring felt a little stiff. Time on the board was 10:35mins. It's really close....
6th Round: Wah liao it's really do or die. I started striding for my life, lungs were burning. Legs were wilting and by the 2200m mark I thought my lungs would fail me. Then God was very good. I suddenly saw Charlie overtake me, and he was panting like a wild horse going for broke. Somehow that triggered me to burn my reserves and I chased after him. If you heard the 2 of us hyperventilating you would immediately call for a medic, noiser than snoring sia!
To my eternal gratitude, the scoreboard posted 464 - 12.30min. I PASSED! PRAISE GOD I PASSED! NO MORE RT FOR THIS YEAR! WOO HOOO!!!!! THANK YOU LORD!!!!!!!!
Yeah, I was having a double stitch and I was like hyperventilating for the next 5 minutes. The stitch took 30mins to recede and I took a cab home to give my darling a super smelly hug haha!
Oh well, Daphne's tired already, so I'd better go now. Ciao! :)
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