track season is here and it is going to be gone soon. but what an exciting week it has been.

monday had my 800m heats, which was screwed up. i started too slow, got boxed out, by 150m i was last 0_o. first lap 70, which is like OMG. first lap screwed, second lap also screwed. in the end 2.24, 3 secs off my pb. worst still, i didn't even feel tired after the race, which made me feel guilty. my preparations were less than ideal though. the night before i couldn't sleep as my nose was blocked and i was literally suffocating. after watching morning's events, i ate lunch and went home to sleep. but i forgot that if i did so i would suffer from indigestion. and so i woke up feeling bloated and nauseous. and just before the race, i vomitted as per last year.

before that, i watched tz's, sk's and zm's 3k finals. quite exciting. tz was following leeminghui from vs all the way, pissing lmh off as lmh likes to run alone. as the race drew closer to a close, you could see lmh getting worried, as tz was much faster than him. true enough, tz whacked a 68sec last lap and won his first nats gold medal. sk was leading zm for abt 3 laps before zm took the lead over sk with 2 laps to go. zm finished a comfortable 3rd place while sk got overtaken to 7th. but sk was still damn happpy.

next day had 2k steeple, which ry, sk and araunah took part. first was a free freck for abdul rahman, along with the record. ruiyong was expected to beat lee ming hui to second because 1) he was as fit as tz; if tz can beat lmh, ry also can and 2) lmh just had a race yesterday while ry is fresh. but no, ry gave up and had to settle for 3rd. sk came in 5th despite having a race the previous day and araunah a commendable 6th as he just had 2 swim events hours before the race.

3k steeple later was also exciting. weiwen was up against last year's steeple champ koh kai ming (alan). at first it was rather conservative, the leaders just following each other, with shi ronghua leading. at about 1.6km, alankoh decided to take the lead and ww followed, ditching srh. with about 2 and a 1/2 laps left, ww kicked and tried to pull a gap. alankoh tried to follow but the result was clear to see with one lap to go and ww swept home the gold, along with a spot in ASEAN schools track meet which is to be held in Jakarta.

on wednesday i redid my 5 stations. results are as follows: sit-ups (48, 5pts), standing broad jump (225cm, 3 pts), sit and reach (42cm, 4pts), pull ups (0, 0 pts zzzz). total points including 2.4 which definitely get A, if not i go vegetarian, 22 pts. Award: NIL( ZOMGWTFBBQSAUCE)

and today, had 3 exciting races. first, 800m B boys. Simon saravanan from st pat got gold, mhd khalis from amkss got 2nd and jaime ross coates from ssp got 3rd. khalis was leading all the way as per his style until saravanan overtook him with 50m to go. jaime also follow his style, which is to conserve and whack last 100m, which normally works. this time it didn't, not enough kick to get first like last year. he had to settle for 3rd. and he was pissed, whacking the track in fustration.

800m c boys next. seow yeong yang was up against his junior zachary something from acsi and uber tall ssp keith tan. lee guan lin from ri was also supposed to run and was favourite to win gold until he got injured during pe while playing rugby when his pe teacher mr kwan (also my form teacher) refused to let him sit out. end up 1500m cannot qualify for finals, 800m cannot run finals, and 4x400m also cannot qualify for finals. ah seow's normal plan is to do a fast 1st lap, create a lead and hold on to it. but as he wasn't very fresh, having ran relay earlier in the day, coach asked him to change strategy and just follow the leaders before whacking from 300m-200m left. rationale was that ah seow's 400m is the most pro among his 800m compeitition, so relying on his speed to win it sounds fine. when the race started, no one dared to take the lead, and all ended up doing a slow 66secs for first round. this played into ah seow's strategy and ah seow kicked with 300m to go, leaving keith and zachary to eat his dust and settle for 3rd and 2nd respectively. zachary tried to kick from 200m but his speed nowhere near ah seow's so yah, not much fight. but when ah seow kicked it was damn exciting.

last race, 5k A boys. a straight fight for gold between jonathan edward de cruz of vjc and ng wei wen of rjc . as expected, the race only began with 3 laps to go. de cruz was leading ww and ww was trying to follow. ww had been nervous b4 the race as de cruz's pb owns ww's. de cruz's last kick owns ww's and ww noes dat. so with 2 and 1/2 laps to go ww decided to take the lead and gap de cruz. it wasn't working very well until nearing the end of the 2nd last lap when de cruz seriously looked shackled, having ran 1500m yesterday. the gap wa widening to about 15m when de cruz kicked with 300m to go. he closed on ww at a constant but slow rate, us knowing that eventually it would close if it continued at this rate. but ww went for the final kick at 150m to go, leaving de cruz for dead having already started whacking earlier. however, the final 100m was close and they were 20m between each other. both were running for their lives and everyone feared that de cruz still had that something left to own ww. alas it was not meant to be and ww swept home his 2nd ever nats track gold with a time of 16.43 mins, with de cruz 3 secs behind. excellent and non-stop entertainment.