Monday, March 9, 2009

Cross Country~

On 13rd February , our school was having an annual Cross-Country at Nanyang Polytechnic .
When i arrived at there , a man was giving lecture about Total Defence Day . There were Red Cross people showing us how to treat injured people .After that , we were watching the National Cadet Corps ( NCC ) sergeants showing us survival skill and self-defence .It was followed by the NPCC which i don't know what is the full form showing us how to carry people .At first I didn;t know what are they doing but then my friends told me that they are showing us how to carry people .Then the teachers start to give the runners the number tag . The girls' race started first followed by boys .At first , I wasn't confident to participate because i have no experience .However , at first , I made a mistake by sprinting in the downhill track and it made me loss my stamina but built up my speed but because my stamina is running out , I couldn't keep up the speed and must stay behind two runners which is pacing with me .At last lap , I was so exhausted as I hasn't took any liquid before the race except a can of Red Bull .I sprinted at the uphill track again and managed to chased up the runners in front of me .I saw a few Pathlight runners run past me and i thought " Oh shoot , Pathlight can do , I can't do . What the hell?? " , and I dashed to overtake them . At last 500 meter , I saw my sergeant , Rasheed , giving support to me and I sprinted all the way till the finish line , a guy was keeping up with me and I must let him go in front of me because I don't want to cut the poles .As I crossed the finish line and grabbed my number , I countinued to run to the Milo truck and drank a cup of it and went to register my rank .
It was a quite a good experience and the race went very well .Some of us were waiting for result , after the medal was given , we sang the school song and we were dismissed .