Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Dec 20-21
Event: 100Km ExtremeWalk round island
Team:Slowpoke!
Members: CheeHau , Harrison , Aloy , Hong Hui , Yankai , Wenhan
Time start: 20th 0800
Time ended: 21th 1045
Time of completion: 26Hrs 40mins
Final standing : top 10th


7200 strides,28hrs.
An overnight, round-island endurance walk by Raleigh Society.
Total 907 participants,
228 in 10km JalanWalk, 380 in 50km PowerWalk and 299 in 100km ExtremeWalk

Final figures 99 finishers in 100km ExtremeWalk, 222 finishers in the 50km PowerWalk and 198 in the 10km JalanWalk.

Dropouts
100Km : 200
50km : 158
10km : 30

how it all started:

Ray : "hey there's a walk coming up organized by my society wanna join?"
wh : " what walk? "
Ray : "100km walk, for charity"
wh : "hmz sounds gd. will jio other people"
After some indepth discussion..
wh to cheehau/aloy/yankai/harrison : "oui people how there's a walk coming up wanna join?"
all of them : " what walk?"
wh : " 100km walk!! haha"
most of them : " siaO!"
wh : " can la.. see ah we've done single digit.. double digit.. now we do triple digit la!! "
After more noise making..
all : "okay la.."
and tada.!! team slowpoke! is formed.

Dec 20th 0800
100Km walk was flagged off.
Being the usual me. i printed everything from maps to checkpts to specific timings..
BUT i forgot to bring everything!!
therefore we had to follow behind other team. haha cuz all we had was a checkpt list..
Ten check points in total each indicating a 10km mark.
ckpt 1 : kent ridge park
ckpt 2 : Saab(NUS law school)
ckpt 3 : Bishan Stadium
ckpt 4 : Kampong Kembangan CC (i love this part)
ckpt 5 : Tampines Sports Hall
ckpt 6 : Pasir Park
ckpt 7 : Changi Village
ckpt 8 : ECP carkpark G
ckpt 9 : Big splash
ckpt 10: SMU!!!(FINISH!!)

It's truly a walk to remember.. and to be done once ONLY.
of 6.. 2 had knee problem/ 1 had ankle problem/ 1 had sever ligament stress/ 1 had shin fatigue/ 1 had no problem..

To start all with all of us had no training prior to this walk and the longest any of us slept the previous day was 4hrs..
this walk was totally a mental battle for any of us or rather anyone in the 100km cat.
weather was not forgiving either it's scorching hot for both the days. after 70km all of us was in the zombie state, both aloy and i actually sleep walk..
70km onwards was the killer portion cuz the route covers changi coastal road which is one very very long stretch of road al the way till ecp.
this walk is also a very expensive one cuz nearly every ckpt we went to buy a meal.. 5 main 3 small meals over 2 days.

Good job guys for making it that far it's really a plesure walking with you fellows.
something you could be proud of. woohraa!

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