Preparing Our Field
What a day yesterday was!!Dead tired, owing to the two hours sleep I had the night before, but I still headed down to VJ, though I knew I would inevitably stay a bit longer than expected and miss out on my other commitments.
BUUTTT, it was bloody worth every second of it.
I was realli nervous, I dunno why, but it was cos of my raised expectations from the time trial a few days before. Nevertheless, I was feeling upbeat and there was a quiet confidence inside of me about what was about to turn out in a few hours. As we were warming up, I heard Mr Tan shouting for the girls to get ready, but although I was feeling damn nervous I held the girls back cos I was pretty sure Tan would not start any earlier than 8am. But I was super nervous of two things...
1) We dont get the front part of the pack.
2) There will be a mess due to all the tripping and stuff.
Thankfully enough the girls manged to cut q and all of them were in front, unfortunately though there were casualties like Cel and Lorena who fell down.
BUT BUT, I was not there cos i was sprinting my ass off to get to the turn around, hate running without warming up, makes one feel like crap. I got there on time, and managed to see the likes of Jaslyn, KR, Nat, PQ, Jasmin, Grace and Jing Jing. Then after shouting my ass off, I had to run all the way back to school, and managed to reach there just in time as they came around. Again I started shouting and shouting, and I was ecstatic seeing eileen, jaslyn and Kuan ren coming in in the top 20. Grace, Jas, Nat and Jing came soon after.
As I was standing there wif Deb cheering them on, I was just realli proud of them, regardless of the position, ppl like Jo who had overcome so much to finally be running in the x-country, first timers like Sneha, Azlin, Xiang and Lorena who all garnered very respectable positions.
Anyways back at school I was busy calculating and by all calculations it showed that we had won. But this was cos I forgot that the CCA thingey was combined, not a girl/boy thing. So i waited anxiously for the results, and then I was told by Dao that CCA was a combined thing. WTH? My spirits kinda sank....
Moments later it was announced we were second, ahead of the Bball, hockey and even soccer boys teams, but fell behind to the Kayak COMBINED (boys and girls) team. Aiyah nevermind I think they trained real hard and they deserve it, I would wish for them to do just as well at the nationals cos they deserve that much.
So at the end of the day we were 2nd overall, but 1st in terms of the girls teams, which was all I ever wanted anyways. More than that, seeing the girls screaming their asses off in joy was the best sight of it all, they truly deserve this, and winning was for the team not for any of them individually, everyone from those whom I had to tape up like Jo and Jing, to those who improved from 205 to 18 like Eileen, to Kuan Ren who spent like two weeks on a bike before running, Captain Marvel jaslyn, to the new year 1s, and even to ulrica, who cried because she felt that the she had let her team down, to Deb, who cheered her ass off for the team, everybody everybody played a part in yesterday's victory.
Yes it was a victory, not because we got 2nd or any such thing. But because you girls conquered YOURSELVES. You ran selflessly for the team, putting everything on the line, and like I always say dats all I ask for. In my heart dats what makes a champion.
After the my mad rush (managed to make it on time though) and back, we squeezed in a good training session, and I think we are going the right way. Are we prepared for the comp? Nope, still a long way. But we will work hard to prepare for it nonetheless.
We will plough and prepare our field, and it is up to God to grant us rain.
Out.
P.S. To Ulrica and Jing, you guys are my heroes, dont worry you still have another year, but you tried and gave it your all with whatever you have and the team, coaches and myself all know that is better than any cross country position you can get.
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