Between Trainings

After Aug 27 training, in fact, I had a dinner to go in Causeway Bay. When I went back home after training, it was 6pm already. My dinner started at 8pm. So I quickly had shower and took a bus to Causeway Bay. I took bus home after dinner. I was so sleepy and fell asleep in the bus. You know what. I overslept. I missed the bus stop that I supposed to get off. I got off at one more bus stop after and walked back to home!

Next day (Aug 28), I had family gathering. I ate a lot. My sis made a blueberry cheese cake, Mango cheese cake and a strawberry mousse cake. Also, my nephew bought us a icecream cake as well. Together with some regular food such as salad, ribs, sushi, crabs, shrimps, steak.

I felt guilty to eat so much and thought that I should do more exercise. So I went to have a walk at night. There is a very nice park next to my home. In this park, there is a long stair up to Hong Ling Road. After chatting with Yvonne, she found out that many trailwalkers actually walked a lot of stairs for training. So I decided to do it also. I counted there are 155 steps in this stair. I ran and walked for 5 rounds (up and down). I think this should help.

3rd Trailwalker Training on Aug 27, 2005

We did section 4 and 5 this time. Participants are our team (Yvonne, Ben, Adrian and I), Adam, Sam, Samuel, Michelle and Robert Tse (Adrian's friend). We started at 8:52am and ended at 5:19pm. Temperature was around 27C to 30C. It had a isolated shower. Yvonne called me at 6:15am and told me that there were thunderstorm warning.. gosh! we couldn't have training last weekend because of bad weather. I dont want to miss another chance for training! But thanks god! It got off 15 mins later. Hence, we sticked to our plan.

I was a bit worried myself as I didn't sleep well in the past few days. I felt very tired at the very beginning. I was hoping that I didn't need to take the helicopter for help. :) Oh... what did I have for breakfast? I had a banana, rice porridge, rice noodle (cheung fun). BIG BREAKFAST!! This is suggested by Alan Chow. He said I should take more carbohydrate if I get hungry so easy. so I did it. We started our journey and was talking about my blog, too. :) We were guessing who would step on shit and fell down this time. I was watching my watch and was thinking whether I could maintain my energy but then I didnt want to take risk.. so.. I ate a choc bar after 45 mins walk. hehehe.. yeah I know I eat a lot!!! But it did work. A big breakfast and a piece of choc are the right combination for me.

It has been raining for the last few days. The trail was sooo slippy and muddy. Michelle fell down twice. Samuel almost fell down. I had a hiking stick with me. It really helped.

I didn't have cramps this time but Robert did. We were so lucky to have Michelle with us. Michelle had the relieve cramps cream with her. Adrian helped Robert to put it on. Besides such cream, Michelle also brought different kinds of drinks and brought MANY bread!! She really got everything in her bag!

Part of section 4 was blocked (around post 96) due to landslide in the past few days. so we got to walk to Wilson Trail to go to the beginning of section 5. Our plan was to had a quick lunch at the little grocery shop at the end of section 4 and then continued our journey in section 5. When we arrived the grocery shop, it was after 2pm already. It was a bit late then we expected. But anyway, we were so hungry and ordered food right away.

Michelle, Robert and Samuel were in the hurry and had to go. Adam, Sam, Yvonne, Adrian, Ben and I continued to do the section 5 after the quick lunch. We walked very very fast in section 5. It took only 2 hours for us to finish it.

After that we took taxi together... dropped Yvonne off in Prince Edward MTR station and Ben, Adrian and I took the same taxi home. Can you believe this? Yvonne still went to shopping after such a long walk!! She is really a superwoman!!

I can see that all of us have improved physically. This is a good sign! I didn't have blister on my feet. But I had blister around my knee! 'cos I wore the knee brace for the whole journey. um.. I think I should put on some vaseline first....

What a pity! No one step on shit this time!!! HHAHAHHAHA

Between trainings on Aug 20, 21

We didnt go for training on Aug 20 because of very bad weather. There was amber rain warning, landslip warning and thunderstorm warning. I was so bored at home. I slept and read. On Sunday (Aug 21), the weather was still bad but didn't rain so heavy. So I went out for a 30 min run. still got nothing to do after it.... um.. ah! suddenly, I realised that I haven't gone to beauty shop for facial.. ahhaha... I called and did the reservation.. When I was doing facial, Joel sent me SMS and asked if we went for training. I said.. No. doing facial now! He replied.. HAHAHHAAH.. :)

2nd Trailwalker Training on Aug 14

We have done the 2nd trailwalker training today (Aug 14). We did section 5, 6 & 7. We started at 8:30am and finished at 14:52pm. It wasn't too bad.

I had a McDonald's whole meal breakfast this morning. Since I didnt eat enough last training, I felt so hungry and couldn't continue to walk. I also bought many bread with me this time, too. HOWEVER, I still felt hungry when I walked til 9:30am, (Can you believe this?) I had to stop and ate half of power bar. Adrian was so nice and helped me to carry my backpack.

Luckily, it didn't rain today. Thunderstorm and typhoon signal no. 1 were hoisted yesterday. But I did drink more water than last time. I bought 2L water but it wasn't enough neither. Um.. I got cramps again. Well.. this time was the inner side of my knees. I could feel that my knees are not strong enough. I do need more training and exercise. Again, I was so lucky. 2 gentlemen, Ben and Adrian massaged me!!

Oh.. I also wore knee braces to protect my knees, too.. You know what.... I bought a very expensive brace.....HKD120 in Admiralty.. however, when I walked 20 steps more from the shop I bought the expensive brace, I found that I could get HKD54.9 from Waston!!!! AH!!!!! I keep telling myself that my brace is better!!! It is worth to buy it so expensive!!!! :) Well.. I proved it.. hehehe.. in the half of our walk today, I borrowed a brace (the one that I could get in Watson) from Adrian. I could feel that HKD120 is better!! HHAHAHHAAA!!!

Route was so slippy this time. Adrian, Ben and I fell down couple of times. Even though we finished at 14:52, we still need to walk for an hour to get transportation to town. We were so tired but walked very fast as we knew that we could have good meal afterwards. Within this hour, we were thinking what kind of dishes we should order.. hahaha.. we ordered tomoto beef rice, fook kian fried rice, beef rice noodle, singaporean rice noodle.. Wow.. so yummy!! We ate VERY fast!!!

This time.. who stepped on shit!! Yvonne!! She stepped on monkey's shit.. It was in green color. Surely, the monkey ate a lot of fibre!!! HAHAHAHHAA :D