we had a short briefing and met the ex-hc team, then we went to get our bicycles from a kiosk. apparently it is quite cheap, $10 for 4 hours and the bikes were of decent standards, of course still farfar off from my bike =) and at this point that someone who overslept came. ya so we all got our bikes and did some basic stuff like adjusting seat height, changing gears etc. after that we were given some paper with a map that has a checkpoint, and we were split into our teams to navigate to the checkpoint.
at the first checkpoint, we played the criss cross hands game, where everyone's hand were tangled up in the middle and we had to untangle them without letting go of each other's hand. the catch is that all of us but ernxu were blindfolded, and ernxu couldnt talk. =o we took quite a while to do it, amidst all the cock like ernxu trying to make me lift my leg higher than my head, which obviously was quite fail; benkhoo throwing peanuts at sup's mouth but missing almost all the time etc. but ya it was fun and a tough job for everyone, esp ernxu.
following that, we continued cycling to the other checkpoint, which was just outside of camelot. the compound was locked, so we just peeked inside as much as we can and get a feel of the place. the high element looks pretty daunting, the rock wall looks...tall. the whole place looks quite small, made me wonder how we going to spend like 10 hours there for the prelims.
then we took a jog to some random yellow thing sticking out of the coastline. at first the thing seemed quite close, but it is actually dam far to get there cos we need to take some mega detour. quite a cunning plan to degen people =p at the yellow thingie, we took a group picture which ernxu tried to jumpshot and failed, so we took another, better one.
then we did a 5km+ walk/jog. more of a walk, possibly cos people were tired from the cycling and the job previously, but at least we came in earlier than the other team. we ran back to our bicycles which were parked outside camelot, then cycled back towards ecp and did our 2nd game!
basically we were split into 3 groups, HH, Sherm and Tat 1 group, me miin nic 1 group, sup and ernxu last group. hh's group could see sup's group but they cant talk. my group can see hh group but cant see sup's grp. sup's group couldnt see and they could only answer questions. so hh's group had a task sheet for sup's group to do, but the challenge was for them to tell sup and ernxu what to do. so it went something like this: hh group will do some action, we will convert the action to words and shout it out to sup and ernxu. was quite fun, except it really kills me when hh group laughing at what sup and ernxu were doing, yet we cant see them!
following that it started to drizzle, so we chionged back to the bike shop, and were late my 1 hour or so, but somehow we didnt have to pay extra. then we went to bk, had a short debrief by the ex hc team, then makan!
some pics i took while cycling =D quite easy to cycle 1 handed on mountain bike compared to road.
oh and ben khoo is dam camwhore. =D
in other news, i got my race pack for passion run today! the singlet is bright red, fairly small, and the craftsmanship isnt that good, but at least its thin. the race tag is the same as sbr.
its next week and my legs havent fully recovered from some sort of injury. hope to get below 1:30
