Track and Field Part 2

I'm kinda getting used to this nocturnal life of mine already. So much so I agreed to continue this lifestyle till the end of this month, tentatively. I wouldn't mind continuing till the end of August too actually. Oh well, I'll think about it later. Whatever it is, September will be the month I'll get my fitness back to tip-top condition. Just like my secondary school days..

Yes, I was pretty fit during my secondary school days, no thanks to the tough TnF training. Remember I was saying about this Y person? Apparently, he quitted after the first training session, citing that he couldn't handle both basketball and TnF at the same time. So he quitted both of them. Oh well.

Training was indeed tough alright; we needed to train 3 days in a week, namely every Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. On top of that, I've got my NCC to worry about on Saturdays. I had not much of a life actually. Though I had a serious crush on the girl, whom eventually turned out to be my first love, it was all training for me at first.

It takes a hell lot of determination and commitment to face every single training. Well, all our trainings were usually not held in our school itself(lack of space apparently) and every Mondays and Wednesdays were held in Bedok Reservoir. Fridays over at Meridien Junior College/Tampines Stadium. So we had to travel, just to train. Also, it doesn't help that training was hell.

I can still remember how a typical Bedok Reservoir training is like. First, we need to warm-up by freaking complete a round in Bedok Resevoir. Yes, 4.8 bloody km just for warm-up. Most people would be glad to just complete a round. But not for my seniors apparently, some of them were required to complete two rounds. Just for the record, my personal best was roughly 23 minutes.

Our training is usually 3 hours long. So the first hour was simply "warming-up". And the other two hours are all spent on completing drills and whining. Though I can't exactly remember what were the drills we did, but it certainly was no less tiring than the "warming-up".

Friday trainings were more boring somewhat. It's simply training on the tracks that's all. And I never liked completing 5km on the tracks. Too repetitive for me I suppose. But I liked the competing sessions though. It's pretty exciting seeing your seniors battling it out and gossiping about who's faster and so forth. Meanwhile, my coach Mr Teo will decide who will represent our school for the annual Combined School Meet.

I can still remember my first Combined School Meet for it was the day I realised what competition is all about.

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Guess I'll leave it for another day.