4th Trailwalker Training on Sept 4

We did section 6, 7 & 8 today. We started at 8:35am and finished at 2:50pm. We waited at the end of section 6 til it rained not too heavy for 20 mins. We took 20 mins lunch break. It wasn't bad at all. Participatants are our team, Adam, Sam and Robert.

The weather was so bad today. When I woke up this morning, it was raining already. But there was no thunderstorm, we decided to stick to our plan. We took a taxi to Tai Po Road from Sham Shui Po MTR station. When we arrived the starting point, it was raining heavily. I checked from Smartone IN. Thunderstorm warning was just hoisted. We discussed whether we should still start our journey. We thought that the thunderstorm warning would be off within an hour so we still went ahead. And we put our raincoat on.

Amazing! We finished section 6 less than an hour. We took only 55 mins to finish it. But it was raining really heavily. We waited at the end of section 6 and hoped that it would rain less later. There was another large group waiting with us there, too. I am sure some of them were also doing trailwalker training.

It still rained quite heavy and then we discussed again whether we should continue. We voted and most of us thought we should continue. Hence, we continued our journey under heavy raining. In Needle Hill at section 7, we saw an old man. He turned on the radio and took a rest at the top of hill. He was listening some very old songs and the song of Titantic. What a life! He looked so satisfied.

Our shoes were all wet. I felt that we were climbing up to waterfall. When we walked section 8, the weather condition was really bad!!! It kept raining heavily and the trail was muddy, watery and slippy. It was so windy, too. I fell down once there but I stood up very quickly. Even though the weather was so bad, we still walked VERY fast. I wasn't care what I have stepped on. My feet were so wet. I was afraid that I got blisters again. We took a very quick rest at an arbor. Yvonne and I changed our socks. Sam changed to wear her sandal. It was so windy and cold and we saw a teenager who were resting there too with his friends who was so pale. I think he must be very cold. We couldn't stop there too long. We started our journey again.

After our long journey, we went to Tsui Wah for lunch. Yeah! Of course, food was yummy!! All of us are pretty fit now. Our intial target was to finish the 100km within 30 hours. I think we could adjust it to 27 hours. will see how it goes.