Track training today was nice. It wasn't tiring. All we had to do was: warm up. 100m striding around the curves. (stride 100m, walk 100m.) After striding/walking 2 rounds, (which basically means we only strided 4 times) we walked around to the 200m starting line. There, it was more shady than any other part of the track, so we were happy to walk around there. We did light speed training. 3 times! Slack! Then, dear Mr Tan told us we had to run a 600m time trial. Like... thanks a lot! But the sprinters had to run first. And they had to do a 200m time trial. I infinitely prefer a 600m time trial cos its loads slower and you don't have to start fast. Xinqi flagged the 200m runners, i think there were five of them. It was over all too soon for us, though not for them. We didn't want to run 600m in the sweltering heat. The fastest was Jane, but then, she was the oldest there. 29.2_ i think. Even yunnie, who finished the latest, got a 30.something timing. Argh! The sprinters are zai! They were lucky there were 5 of them running. For us poor 600m time trial runners, there were but 3 of us. Xinqi, Ruixin, Me! Ruixin and I paced each other, and decided to tail xinqi for as long as we could. Which was about 100m. =) Then, we decided to try and let the distance between Xinqi and the two of us not increase by more than 3m per 100m. Did i mention she was alr about 3m ahead of us? No? Okay. Anyway, it was quite a relaxed run, where we didn't need to push until the last 100m when our legs became tired. Xinqi clocked 1min 58 secs sth or other, which she whined about being a 1 sec deprovement from her PB. Ruixin clocked 2mins and 3.00 secs seeing that she was always a better sprinter than me, i clocked 2 mins and 3.33 secs. yay. that's approximately a 6 sec improvement from my PB which was done many months ago probably in March. Hah! I improved! And i pushed less this time. =) After which, Mr Tan gave us a half an hr break, which ended up becoming a 45-50 min break, seeing that he was so preoccupied with the hurdlers. We, the 3 of us and Jane + Hushu, did 200m sets. but only 1 set, and 3 times. Yay! slackness! Clocked 34s mostly, which isn't very good, but that's what our entire group aimed for and got. And Mr Tan said between 33-36. So yeah. That was all for training, besides cooldown. SLACKNESS! But due to that nice long break in between, our training ended at 5.30, when it usually ends at 5. And that was excluding cooldown and heated discussions about the annoyance: homework! we. the sec 1s, have the same hw, except that some mainstream classes only need to do a total of 6 pieces for the poetry and prose anthology, while we do 8. Then again, another class has to do 20, so i shan't complain. Walked out to the bus stop with Chloe, Hushu, Chewmin, Cheryl, Yunhui and someone else. Is it ruixin? Can't remember. Maybe it was Xinqi. But she isn't so mad as to dash across the zebra crossing and the main road, getting herself to the opposite side(the J8 side) in a few seconds, although the greenman was already flashing dangerously when they saw it and reached the zebra crossing. that, is what i call... suicide. And 5 of them did it! Even yunhui, future SL to be. Track is going to be overrun with SLs!So they left me by myself on the other side of the road, cause i didn't intend to cross the road, walk to J8 and cross the overhead bridge to get back to the same side i started from just to walk with them a few more metres. Besides, i would've missed my bus. I crossed the road sanely like any sane person would do and ran across the zebra crossing for fun. Then i started walking at a brisk pace. I walked 3 steps and i saw a 88. The 88 passed by me at a snail's pace. Then, I just knew on my instinct that there was a 156 behind. So i turned and what do i see? A 156. Before i could even start running, it passed by me! Not wanting to wait another 20 mins for the dratted bus, I decided to chase it. Why is the bus-stop so far? I had to run like 100m striding or sth just to catch the stupid bus. Of course, this time i was wearing culottes. Thankfully, a lot of people boarded and got off the bus, so although i reached the bus-stop approximately 5-10 secs after the bus, i still had plenty of time to board it. =) Okay... gtg buy new sch shoes cos my mum threw away those that i'm emotionally attached to and have 3 holes each. Bye!
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