Commando Challenge 2014

3rd awesome wkend in a row.

15 November 2014

SRU Club 10s in the morning, then

Commando Challenge in the evening.

video with nice bg music that cannot be played  on mobile because of copyright issues:

ok, this same vid, w/o the music so it can be played on mobile phones. hahas.
for the most epic station + the super girly shriek, fwd to 9:07.




let's start with the awesome run first.
hahahs. probably the best and most fun obstacle race i've done.
our wave officially flags off at 5pm; everyone released in batches of 20... so we started running at about 5.30pm. the weather was kind. was stormy and drizzling here and there. made everything more epic. ahhahas. a big improvement in the organization and obstacles as compared to last yr's. more challenging too.
the most epic station i must say, is the last electric shock one. (9:07 of vid)

ran with james' collegues and friends. funny how we clicked so quickly towards dinner time. hahas. also ran with my SJ4000. tried to take photos and vid of all the obstacles and parts of the run too. covered everything but i dont have vids & photos of everything. they should make it like the samsung camera.. can video and take photo at the same time.
with the rugby matches in the morng, my legs were alrdy feeling nua before the run. so i'm glad i did it. though it was just 5 k, but the hills were quite a terror. ahaha. ok. let the photos do the talking!


before the race. all clean and green.

after running lots and lots of hills.. we finally reached the first obstacle... actually most of the obstacles feels somewhat like bouldering... the jumping from heights, the climbs and so on... hahas

this one quite memorable coz it was quite challenging as it requires u to leap with faith. plus the colllddd water. ahhahs. actually felt really good for my aching legs. saw a girl cried coz she cant feel her legs... felt bad coz i wanted to laugh. hahahas. then again, well, i've ever cried because it was too cold too. ahahahs #mtrinjani hahas. aaron's gopro sank down into the bottom after it got hit by the panel. hhahahs. no worries, its being retrieved on the next day. hahas. #epic

next quite cool. didn't know the existance of such places in Sentosa. somewhat like the battlebox. as we run, there's like an audio of guns firing / war scenario. ahhas. i think its specially installed for this event. coz after running out of the.. erm... shelter or smth, we saw the DJ outside. hmm. yea.

 next up is the last leg of obstacles along the beach. have done some of them before... but some new ones and pretty challanging

 

this one. 

honestly, after briefly watching some of the sasuke (ninja warrior) shows, (because they usually show the finalists) i thought i could clear it since it is (looked) relatively easy. but no. hahahs. with the water and the sand at the sole of the feet, it was slippery. and ya, u need the upper body strength to muscle urself up. so thanks to ah huat and team for literally pulling me up. they had lotsa trouble doing so coz i kept laughing and laughing instead of trying to step up or smth. ahhahs. so with brute force, they had to literally pull me up.

ya. then this one. thanks.

ok. and so, with the music, strobe lights and all, i thought its just like u know.. a finale kinda run-through-an-artistically-epic-looking-course. ( was busy trying to take this photo, so i didn't take note of the runners infront of me.)  ran to the first few strings, touched it.. nothing. ok. no prob. then when i started to runnnn. omg. SHOCKED sia. hahahahhas.

 

after the brief washing off...with the remaining camo left on the eyelids made us look like heavy metal rocker. hahahs.





after that, it was WHACK-THE-FOOD session at ABC brickworks hawker centre at alexandra.
the foooooddd so good. and since its so good, was surprised that it was my first time eating there.
ok, probably the whole day's of epic events, weather, activities made me v v hungry.



hahas. homed at abt 12 am. and slept through Sunday b4 bringing mother poon out to turf city to eat atas seafood at Ah Yat seafood. a treat from me and james. wanted to do so since my first new pay. hahahhas. total bill $343. coz i wanted to let her try the Geoduck clam thing which constitutes half of the bill. mad. but the seafood really fresh.

crazily, we abolished the waffles-icecream supper plan, and went to mustafa instead. its like mother poon's first time there. still a big wrong move coz we left there at 3.30am on a Sunday night, as if there's no work tmr. but ok la. she's fascinated that we could be shopping at everything at 3am in the morng. from see-see-look-look, we bought 1 trolleys full of groceries.

ok. back track abit, Sat morng.. 

SRU Club Rugby 10s.

have no idea why i said yes to playing; because of M11, i haven't really been trng for 3 wks. no contact no gym. apart from the happening wkends, i was studying alot during the wkdays. so 1 word.. brave.

hahahas. bu ok la. 10s not too bad. 

played for Bucks; coz i haven't been going to Blacks' trng at all. it felt abit wierdd initially coz while walking in, instead of turning left to the team where i've been playing for yrs, i turned right to another team. okok. i dont really have the time to blog this part of my life in detail coz now its 2:26am. but i'm just really glad to be playing with this bunch of girls again. have played with them before when they're down in numbers and have played against them on many occasions too. 

yup. and glad that i survived coz we played with rolling subs. 10-2-10 format. we won 2 out of 3 games, marginally losing the first one to Kings. we're gg to blame it on the morng. coz it was the first game at 8am. systems not fully booted up yet. hahahhaas. but yea, in faith, we really could have won that game though.

(photo credits to: Erwin Soo & Simplemiso)

 

:)
Thank God for yet another awesome wkend.