9th Trailwalker Training on Oct 15

This was our second evening training and this was an IMPORTANT training for us. Why? 'Coz we did section 1 to 5 all together. This was sort of a mock race for all of us. We started at 9:08am on Saturday (Oct 15) and finished at 2:52am on Sunday (Oct 16).

We did a lot of stretching at the starting point. We really did it seriousely as we knew that it was very very important to us. Okay.. we started our journey! Section 1 was a simple flat trail. We found that many other trailwalkers were doing the training, too. And I could see that some of them were from super team.... as they are running.. We started pretty relaxed.

There were a bit of uphills in section 2. Maybe I haven't warmed up enough and Ben were not in a good condition. The heat was killing me. Both of them found that it was not easy. I sweated a lot! I had to walk slowly. After a while, I started to feel well. We had 30 mins lunch in Ham Tin. We finished section 1 and 2 at 3:20pm. It was post 49. Oh.. I saw a snake at post 47. a long and brown one.. about 1.5m. so scary. I was with no one at that time! We took about 20 mins break at the end of section 2. You know what.. I really felt good. not tired at all.

Then, we started our journey again. Also, we called our supporters. Jhun and Sam were very nice to be our supporters on that day. We asked them to meet us (with food) at the end of section 3. Adrian was a bit of tired in section 3. He walked slowly. Ben and I were ahead. Towards the end of Section 3, it was getting dark. We were thinking whether we should take out our headlights and torches. oh.. Adrian fell down. He stepped on a wrong step! He hurt his knees. It was bleeding seriously.. Oh no! Ok.. so we all took out our lights and Adrian took out his first aid kit and put on the bandage, we continued to walk and meet our supporters at the end of section 3. It was 6:48pm. Ok! I was very very hungry!! Sam, Jhun and his wife were waiting for us with food and drinks. We had tomato beef rice, corn minced rice, lemon tea, coffee etc. Adrian! When he saw Jhun and Sam.. He just said.. ..give me the cigarette... yeah.. this is Adrian! He said that cigarette can release his pain!! OKAY!.. :) I finished the whole tomato beef rice!! hehheh.. yes, I know I eat a lot.

Okie dokie.. we had 2 more sections to go.. You can't believe that there were so many people on this evening in Maclehose trail. All of them were trailwalkers. We even talked on the trails and exchanged experience. Very funny! Even though I had done section 1 to 3, I still felt that I had a lof energy! I was really in a good shape! We started section 4 at 7:25pm an finished at 11:23pm. After the end of section 4, we need to walk the detour.. yes.. the original trail was still not opened yet because of the landslide. We all hate the detour. It was so long! We called this part as Great Wall! Oh.. there were many many cars in Fei Ngo Shan Road, too. yeah... many couples.. We had torches... shall we? ....hehehhehhe..

Alright! Last section for us in this evening.. section 5... we started at 101 at 12:40am. Adrian and I didn't like this section as there were many downstairs. These hurt our knees. Surprisingly, I was still not too tired. I could still walk pretty fast! We were in 2 pairs. Ben and I.. Yvonne and Adrian. Ben and I were ahead. Ben actually asked me to walk slower.. okay.. but I could help. I guess I really wanted to finish it ASAP :P We finally finished at 2:52am. Yvonne took a taxi back home by herself. 3 of us took another taxi but Adrian and I went to Sham Shui Po to eat and Ben went home straight. I was very surprised that my knees were not too pain. I am pretty confident to finish 100K. And our team members are in good shape, too!

Oh yes, I could only sleep for few hours as I had a 4pm flight to catch. I was flying to Tokyo for biz trip.