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I don't even know what i'm doing here when a) its so late and b) theres bio spa on wednesday. Just spent the evening filing 1/2 year's of JC work.... Kinda fufilling. Although actually also shouldn't have let them pile up.

Today was 2.4 run. Oh boy, I totally love running, except during the actual running process when my lungs feel like they're gonna pop. A common trait shared by me n my 2 siblings - we all like to run. Or at least, my brother and I do. My sister just does it to keep fit I think... Yeah. So many a time we ran up and down the hill that seperates Kembangan and Bedok.

Happily enough the start was fast, I kept a good momentum. The weather was nice and cool, traction was difficult but still manageable. Sort of on-the-edge thingy. Unfortunately it turned out to be highly beneficial.

Depending on a runner's style, his speed varies at various parts of the run. Roger Bannister of the 4 minute mile ran slowly and paced his opponents, relying on a "devastating burst of speed", quoted from Readers' Digest, to vanquish his opponents. His arch-rival, John Landy, however, ran with a constant economical stride that ran his opponents to earth so to speak. I personally use Landy's style. Starting fast and staying fast. For that you need Good Momentum =)

So my momentum was at its best and was perfect at the start of the third round. Just before the bend I gave a little extra spurt for there were people clawing at my heels and since I slowed down in the bends I wanted a bit of breathing space. At the same moment the feller tailgating me made an-overambitious move. Given the tight space, my lack of reareward vision, and his fatigue that rendered him unable to execute delicate manouevers (however you spell it), it did not come off.

But it did have some effect.

Just as I fully extended my leg, he kicked the back of my leg when it was at maximum stress, knocking the leg out from under me. I suddenly found myself left on a limb as the english might say, up proverbial salt creek without the proverbial paddle. Or rather, up, with too high a center of gravity, moving in a velocity which I felt could make me achieve orbit if the angulation was about.

Enough beating around the bush. I fell forward, flung my leg out to stop me from falling, but the above mentioned lack of traction gave the track a texture similar to that of AHS' concourse on a wet day running across wih well-worn drill boots. The result was that i rocketed into a lateral fall. Happily I retained the mental faculties to twist to the left to land on the field rather than on the track in the way of the other speeding runners, then it would have been finis.

Bruised my elbow, dirtied my pants and shirt. The field was soft, but it was the mud that was making it soft. The worst injury was a abrasion under my sock. For the rest of the run it would scrape against the inside of the sock causing severe discomfort. And last, for the human body to exert, stop, then re-exert causes nausea. No joke. I could already imagine Gerry saying "why does this always happen to you". Heh. This time it was so totally not my fault man.

I finished 16th. Mursjid managed to finish in front of me for once. Seems that its only in the actual exams when I can't seem to perform. Bah. My momentum was totally shot down, and the exertion of running continually fast in the first 3 laps already took their toll. He passed me with 1 round to go and finished i think 30 sec in front of me.

Yeah.... irritating... well, as Montoya said, "S*** happens" (Refer to Brazilian Grand Prix, Interlagos, 2002... i think.... well, the last year Mika Hakkinen raced for Mclaren anyway).

Oh, on a happier note, I did not bad for Bio review.... scary.... I fail my favourite science and then get the best score in a subject I have no grounding on.....

Anyway its like nowadays is so busy, n a lot of pressure.... Had a talk with Mrs Chan (not the principle.... the physics teacher) regarding fencing.... Realised how fragile and unestablished fencing is...

The PE department and the cca people in general view us as recreational since we don't take part in competitions. How do we let them know that we are competiting on a field thats probably more difficult than their vaunted and beloved soccer. I mean, you have to start SOMEWHERE! We already being strangled for the lack of training and the school won't give us any money. Are we that much poorer than RJ? Or don't look at RJ. In CJ the school virtually pays for all their equipment. Can you see VJ doing that?

And don't say its not possible to win. Geraldine from CJ, Novices Champion for Ladies' Epee in 2005 only had fenced for one year. The same amount of time we'll be fencing when novices comes next year.

Haiyarr... Even NPCC in AHS get more support than us.

I can tell you.... when competition comes. It will be right after mid years. No one but our own members will be willing to come down to support. No one will care whether we win or lose. No one would care whether we improve or not. We won't be able to advertise for it, like cross country, or, in the event we win anything, able to show it like cricket. No one will be particularly happy or anything. It'll just go on.... Until in four years time, when the IPs break onto the fencing field.

Thats the reason why I'm sian nowadays... theres just so much to think about. Not only to improve your dueling, but also keeping up with work. Not to forget St. John is still ongoing as an external cca.... Now that AH mid years are over then it'll start up again.

Hope I have the endurance to go on. A person's nerves can only go so far, take so much stress and battering until they snap like a piano string tweaked by an over enthusiastic tuner.

I will do it cos it has to be done. Nothing more.