I got a medal!
But that shall come later.
Woke up at 6:30 today. Got ready and took a taxi to Marina Reservoir... and turned up 10 minutes early.
Tze Yee and Ying Ying were there. With a can of Red Bull. Then Xiuting, Jingwei and Jingyi came too. I as the only senior T_T
Until Nana came along :D But she didn't call her bro till I told her to D:
Anyway, I had my event at around 9:04. I capped during the first round, but thankfully there was another guy who had capped. So instead of waiting for the Safety Boat, I struck a deal with the guy and we both managed to get back onto our boats...
Second round was okay. Chiong-ed through the Portage. I nearly capped a couple of times, but didn't.
Third round was a nightmare. Capped again after the Benjamin Sheares Bridge, but luckily(and I REALLY mean luckily), a Safety Boat appeared right behind me and I managed to get back on real quickly :D
I paddled all the way to the supposed finish line and scanned for a "checkered flag". None. I panicked. I desperately asked Mr Teo where the flags were, but it was too noisy D:<
Then I saw the red flags. I choing-ed... and capped again. AGAIN, I managed to find some free guy to help me up on my boat. Then I went through and grumbled to Mr Teo about the stupid flags :X
After that I took a cab to Macritchie with Ying Ying, Zoe, and Haafizah and met with Mr Teo and the other four there. Washed a few boats and put them back in the shed... then halfway through, I got a call from Damien.
Damien:Eh Xiaowei, you got third leh! They give out already.
Me: THIRD!!! YEAHHHH!!!!!! Wait, who's the lucky bastard who overtook me when I capped just now?
Damien: Errrr never see. But you got third!
HAHAHAHA I was like siao after that XD
Then when I returned to Marina Reservoir, everyone shaked my hand... O_O and it was all "Grats" and "Thankyou(s)". Jingwei and Jingyi got medals too, 4th and 6th. Cool.
Then it was the Junior and Master categories. Most of us who were not competing went to the Portage area to help out. Ahh; FYI, H2O + Power Gel = Something Like Diarrhoea.
After all of them were done, Jingwei, Ying Ying, Sangina, Haafizah and I walked back because the cars didn't have enough space @_@
Quite fun. There were a few stupid perverted Banglas but I went damn vulgar towards them because of that :D
When we went back, I found out from Syafiq that he had gotten 6th with Yu Chen :D and that Benjamin had gotten 8th in his K1 :DDDD
So... quite happy.
But someone took my marathon shirt.
Oh well, Mr Teo said he would be getting one for me... somehow.
We were supposed to go to Macritchie for the rest of the boats, but we were excused since we had helped out in the morning :D
We were walking to the shopping centre... then the bus 16 came and Jingwei and I quickly rushed for it. I told the rest how to go to where they wanted to go(crap, forgot the name of the place) and the both of us left the group since we had to rush.
Chatted with Jingwei all the way to the interchange, where I took the 167 home. Nice dinner~ Western! Lol.
XiiaoWeiiWeii, Signing Out~
Labels: Singapore Canoe Marathon 2010
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