Monday, November 29, 2004

Anima Sana In Corpore Sano

This stands for If I am not wrong, it means "Sound Body, Sound Mind". Healthy, physically and mentally. Anyway, quite a few of us from the NJ track team went down to the warehouse to buy new shoes today. I got myself a pair, and despite a warehouse discounted price, it still hit pass $100. Oh damn. And I still chose to buy it. Now, I believe I'll have a hard time trying to claim money from my dad. Tsk tsk. Will I be $114 poorer?

To be able to reap this benefit, well, I count the discount as a benefit, I had to go down for training today. I think I just made my training sound very dreadful. Never mind. Training today was quite tough for me. The workout was 10x400m. But I only did 9 sets. Each 400m, my pacing was to be around 1:50-1:55min. Rest time was 60 seconds. It seems easy at first. But I was too fast for my first lap, clocking 1:24min. Subsequent laps were still rather fast. As a result, I was dying for my 3rd lap. After 4 rounds, I could feel less blood in my brain. Hitting the 5th and 6th, I felt like collapsing and puking.

I think I'm still not fit enough. The first 4 laps were continuous, following the rest time of 60sec and keeping my lap times below 1:50min. Took a 3min break after running this 1.6km because I really couldnt take it. Went on with my 5th and 6th round after that. But after the 6th round, there seem to have no blood in my brain. My vision was darkening badly and I could feel my body swaying to the sides. Then, my body did a reflex reaction to protect myself in this situation. How? I felt like puking, and at the same time... shitting. I had a hard time getting myself to the toilet with my swaying vision. It was still a bad scenario over at the toilet, because I didnt know which to do, whether to settle my bowel deposit or stomach withdrawal. For those who dont know what I meant, bowel deposit is shitting while stomach withdrawal is puking. Ya, so, I really pushed myself to the limit for today's training. Can really feel that the intensity of training is increasing at a rate which I did not anticipate. I had better gear myself up for future trainings.

Got to know two track members better today. I should have known them well now, if only I had been attending training regularly. But anyway, I got to know a few things which I had already expected, and something which caught me by surprise. For those who know me, well, I had just mentioned it, I'm quite well-known to be always ponning training. HengYi told me that the track teachers had ever questioned my level of participation in track and field. I was really on and off. Okay, it is just off. This did not come as a surprise to me. Some people even thought that I had other CCAs outside track to be doing such a thing. But when I told them I had none, they told me that my attendance record is really poor, and it will reflect in my CCA grade. Again, nothing surprising. But whatever the case, I am making serious effort in going down for training now. So, I am not going to care about this matter.

What caught me by surprise was when Sihui asked me, "When did you join track? Quite recently right?" I return her a surprise too, by saying, "I have been in track from the beginning of the year." Okay, this sounds real bad. I guess my existence in track was really....... non-existent then! But never mind, as I mentioned before, I am making serious efforts in going down for training now. So... who gives a damn man! Yea!

Off to bed now. I'm all drained out by training and all the travelling today. I travelled from home to NJ in the morning, then from NJ to bedok, and from bedok to clementi, and then from clementi back home. What a day...

-always.aim.high.neva.say.u.die.success.will.come.to.anyone.who.try-

posted at 23:22 by ah wei



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