8th Trailwalker Training on Oct 8

We have done section 7 to 10 on Oct 8. It is totally 37.8km. We started at 7:59am and ended at 7pm. Samual did section 7 and 8 with us. The weather was pretty good. I would say it was too sunny.

I was in a pretty good condition. We have done section 7 and 8 before. But it was our 1st time to do section 9 and 10. We did pretty good in section 7 and 8. We spent 2.5 hours in section 7 and 3 hours in section 8. But the sun was killing us. I felt like I was walking in the desert. I could only hear my breathe and nothing. The last part of section 8 was all concrete road and downhills. It was quite boring. But we found 2 or 3 shortcuts. It shortened the time a bit. yeah.. we are cheating.. hehehe.. but I am sure a lot of people do. :)

Oh we saw a large group of people lining up into 2 rows and yelling in the hill. We thought that they were insurance agents and doing some kind of moral activities.. Then we realised that they were students and having camping.

We had lunch at the end of section 8. It would be a big checkpoint on that day. We were so hungry. We ate instant noodles, fish balls, siu mai.. YUMMY!!

Ok.. Samuel needed to go home and 4 of us continued our journey to do section 9 and 10. Everybody told us that section 9 and 10 were boring. At the very beginning, we found that it wasn't that bad. There were many nice trees and plants and some lotus leave, too. Pretty nice view... but then.. gosh... concrete road is bad! Our legs and feet started to feel tired and tight.. so all of us just stopped to do some more stretching.. okay.. then, we were saying that we must bring our IPod, radio etc in these sections! The beauty in these 2 sections are that there are many many beautiful butterflies. I didnt know that you can find so many beautiful butterflies in Hong Kong. Besides butterflies, we saw many many cows. I think we saw more cows than human being in this training!

Actually, we didn't know exactly where the end of section 9 was. We just kept walking. Yvonne even bought her slippers and wore them to walk section 9 and 10. We also thought that we should wear our running shoes or something more comfortable than hiking shoes to walk these sections. Oh.. you know what.. part of section 9 or 10 are not concrete road. So, we could walk a bit faster.. we walked 6 mins in every 500M ... not bad at all. It was just too boring. We really wanted to finish it quick!

It began dark around 6:30pm but we haven't finished.. and we didnt bring our lights or torches. I supposed to write down the timing every 1km but it was just too dark to do it. We walked and walked and walked. We couldn't find the "exit". Finally, we find a little road around post 198. Actually, we found out later that we should go to the finishing point via another small lane after post 194 but we missed it. It was 8pm already! Gosh! We were so HUNGERY.. so what did we eat!? Of course lah! Roasted Goose in Shum Cheng! ehheheheehhh.. NICE!! And we had dessert there, too!! We deserved to have a nice dinner after a long walk!

How were my knees. It was not as bad as before.....