cross. with a total number of 22 girls running in bdiv, the competition was a tensed yet relaxing one. top 20 girls will get a prize. so i was preeeetty confident to get one. i was super scared before the race. firstly because it's 3.6km! so i was kinda aiming 16plus, which i missed by 2 sec. 17.01. secondly, i've nvr been to bedok reservoir before. thirdly, i did not even know where the stupid finish line is! there wasn't any indication at all. no one gave any teeny weeny hint. they want to kill us. fourthly, i've not been training and i dont like racing unprepared.

so anyway, jackson bdiv had the minimum no of members:franky, tessa, weixin and me.

reached bedok, happy :) the rain stopped. warm up TWO mins, did a few stretches, got bored, went to the starting line. little did we know the rest were making their way to the starting line as well. starting line=common area. so the teachers decided to start the comp. cant rmb how they started us off. but anyhow, we started running with the c div cheering us. "go ___!" yayaya you guys wanna chase us away to the scary boring woods and make us suffer. lol

at the beginning of the flat route, as usual weilin was in front, widening the gap with every step. tricia and i were next. w one girl at my far left. after i dont know how long, weilin was a little in front, followed by me and the rest followed through. but this 2ndplacestardom didnt last long. jing had to come and break it. to make matters worse, weilin turned back and smiled a 'where were u' face. then jing laughed. yes, she LAUGHED. while running a quicker pace than i was which i was already struggling in. ok so weilin's sprinting partner, jing, caught up and they both proceeded to do their thing, leaving me behind. i decided not to pace them purely for the reason because i'm sane. then uhh aiyah the route was super boring lah. but it's a good racing ground. can chiong all the way. it's just FLAT GROUND for the entire route with puddles here and there due to the passing rain. oh yea there was one time we didnt run on that flat pebbled ground track. it was abt 50m on road. aiyah/i felt i could have caught up with them in front but i didnt want to exert too much and find 1km more ahead of me.

there was one point of time i was practically alone, or so i thought. i heard footsteps behind, hard breathing echoes and an imaginary shadow in front of me. i did not want to be overtaken so i started accelerating, in hope of 'shaking that person off'. but 'she' did not give up. she followed closely behind. i began breathing harder, so did her. i was pushing way beyond what i wanted myself to do and gave up after a while. i slowed down, comforting myself that it's just a pointless competition. but i could still hear the pressurizing footsteps. i was irritated because(aiyah u caught up with me to overtake right. now i'm letting you and u still want to stay behind?!) i dared not turn behind in fear of worsening my breathing difficulty. i started opening up again when i regained back my energy.
then i hit the road.
the sound of the footsteps were gone, suddenly. after plucking up whatever minimal courage i had left, i took a peek behind. there was no one. i had been alone all this while.

skip skip skip skip. finished the race. fooled ard. watched stef and 'piong' try to do a one leg squat. stretched. compared heights with weilin. we're both as tall! but everyone agrees i look taller :P cheryl tay's 1 cm taller than us. so unbelievable haha. boarded e bus. was stopped by mr ng. he made me sit alone in front. wanted to talk to me. i sat there, waited. nth. then he distributed food amongst the pple in front happily, like nth scary is gonna happen though i was trembling at my seat. he kept giving the 'you are so doomed muahahaha' smirk. decided to offer me a 2nd piece before the ~scary thing`^. like my 'last meal(food)' before i die. wait wait wait so long he just sat at the opposite seat and kept quiet. so i slept. turned out he was waiting for the 'right moment'. i wonder when it is.

so now i have to see him before trg tmr, somehow. i got some prefect's duty straight after sch n I NEED FOOD . by the time i'm changed, it's 3.

ok esther. so there. that was what happened during interhousecross :P