Our sport is your sport's punishment.

Monday, April 10, 2006

cross country:
It's tough, real tough.
Ever watch a runner kick from behind and win?

Takes guts, a lot of guts.
Yeah, it's tough.

Watch a practice.
Runners collapse, stager,fall down, even cry.
It hurts that bad.
Yeah, Cross Country
it's tough.

But go watch a race.
Watch pain swell into pride.
Watch accomplishments ease the aches.
Watch foes walk away as friends.
Watch people become better people.

This is beauty,
true honest beauty.
And this is Cross Country.
Yeah, it's tough.

i retrieved this poem from last yr's natls when jing shared it with us :) it nvr fails to touch my heart each time i read it.

okayyy, this is IT man. down to our last 2 days. why is it happening so quickly? just not long ago, i was in a circle with the team, waiting for mr ng to come back with his carkey with the team, then playing Animal Game with the team and getting stared at by RJC with the team. and zoom, i'm going to run the biggest race of my year with the team, my team.

two days.

it just seems so surreal even though this number is flashed blatantly in front of my face. a saying: Time flies when you're having fun. how about when you're suffering? trainings are my most torturing times having to bear physcial yet mental struggles. be it the 60min long runs or the intervals of 8-10 times, once you step up to the starting line, your legs just keep pumping and pumping, bringing you round a circuit, till you're back again from where you've started. it's during these times, time passes really slowly. esp when you're into your 30thminute or 5th interval, whoa, sibei jialat. then why is it so that i can still clearly remember myself worrying out loud," oh no! 2 more months to natls! " to hoiyan? why do i only left two more days to natls?! (maybe torture to us is fun :) hmm...gosh then we must be perverts.)

Races on the track have only two things to do. They have to do with the gun and the finish line. Run like crazy when you hear one...and don't stop until you cross the other.

tifft

[ `looked to the heavens for strength ]
7:21 PM

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