Let's Get Dirty!!

Date - 1 Nov 2009

Venue - Genting Awana trail

Event - Genting Trailblazer

Distance - 16km

Found out this event 2 months ago through Marble on facebook.. Genting Trailblazer wehh... Awesome lor, and since its a team event, I went for a look out for partner..

Posted shout out on msn lar, facebook lar...

*look look look*

Finally! Someone responded to my shout out! Super duper happy lor.... But the event is still like 2 months away.. Aiks..

waited and waited...

The big day is arriving!!

On 31 Oct, met Woon Chin the supporter at midvalley station while waiting for the ktm to Segambut to meet up with Christal aka my partner and Lu Yi another supporter. Got onto Christal's car around 1.30pm then headed off to a Tesco in an unknown land to get our lunch, dinner and breakfast for the next morn..

Reached Awana only around 4... ( Imagine the time we used to shop for the food. XD ) Collected our freebies ( official dri-fit shirt, power bar, milo shoe bag, complimentary vouchers and redbull which got me talk non-stop for an hour, which also contributed to Christal's headache. >.< ). There, we met with other 2 teams (Vincent & Marble , Dennis & Poh-E ) and Kar Lye.

Bumped at Vincent & Marble's and Dennis & Poh-E's room while waiting for Liza & Livyen team (which thanks to them Christal & me had a place to sleep and the few of us who didn't book dinner had a place to cook Raleigh-style dinner. =D), CK and Hui Mei.

-Fun fact : All the ppl mentioned above are all Raleigh ppl -

The chef of the night ----- CHRISTAL cooked us an awesome dinner which consist of 5 packets of duck flavour instant noodle recommended by Lu Yi, 2 packets of sausage, 1 chinese lettuce, 1 packet of vegetarian satay and 3 chicken thigh. Seems simple, but it was a whole lot of awesome food.. We ate to our hearts content using mess tins... XD ( Raleigh Style mar... =D )

CK's birthday was on the 1st Nov. We threw him a 5 lvl surprise party!

Lvl 1 - Wrapped in blanket and thrown into the elevator which transported him to the lobby

Lvl 2 - Dumped into the swimming pool along with Hui Mei

Lvl 3 - Decorated him with whip cream

Lvl 4 - Brought him to Dennis's room which is well decorated with balloons and had 2 birthday cakes.

Lvl 5 - Had him feed all the ppl there!

After lvl 5, we went back to catch some sleep as we still have a race to catch the next day!

-Fun fact : Being with Raleigh is nvr boring. Not a single minute. =) Its always full of laughter and randomness. -

Finally!!!!!!

The Big Day arrived!!!!

Got up at 6.15am to prepare for the race. Ate man tou and bananas for breakfast! Not bad at all lor... XD Met up with the other ppl and head off to starting point.

It was all misty that morning because it drizzled the night before.. Had a short morning walk to the starting point and then we started posing at the field with our big 'R' green shirt!

All so semangat.. Had no idea what was awaiting us ahead.. GO GREEN!! XD

Posing at the starting point with my awesome, awesome partner, where we are still clean and dry. =P

The route started off with a trip round the golf course at the awana which is around 3km and then it leads us into the jungle trek.. The trail is super, duper, ultimate, uber muddy. The start of the trail is a downhill trek.. We can either choose to mud ski or slide... By the time we reached the end of the downhill trek, our shoes we already covered in mud and there isn't grip left. And that was only the beginning of the race.. The whole route is like uphill then downhill, then uphill then downhill again and it goes on and on with mud treks.. =D

Ppl wearing normal running would have to sacrifice their shoes to the jungle especially nike shoes.. Pieces of soles can be seen throughout the trail.. I was lucky to have made my decision to use my pair of timberland.. =) If i were to bring my pair of new balance, it will share the same fate as the other unfortunates... Even with my timberland, it got stuck in the mud where I have to hand pick it out from the mud.. That is how thick the mud was..

After mud skiing, butt sliding, crawling on all fours, falling, losing grip and using trees as support, we finally see the finish line... but that is not the end yet...

Obstacle course!!!!!!!!

The finishing line is so near yet so far...

Sliding down into a pool of mud water after climbing up the ramp.. >.<

Just to cross to the other side..

The finisher medal was the main motivation!!! 5 1/2 hours from the starting to finishing.. It was a relieve to have crossed the line and get my hands on the medal! *proud*

Ps: Thanks to Christal who gave me support all the way.. =)

Cheers!!

Wsw (exhausted)