The learning journey

jon laa wrote on December 13th, 2009, 4:31 am

I realised I picked up quite a bit of new stuff for the past year. It has been enriching, extremely enriching in fact.

It all started with running and being able to run a half marathon comfortably. That was pretty remarkable, I am sure there were many others who were expecting me to die or to somewhat fail. Guess it’s willpower and the power of company - I couldn’t have done it alone and I couldn’t have done it without sufficient mental strength.

And I ended up going for several races. Mizuno mount faber run was a killer and marked the end of my attendance in races. Pfft. I’m glad I managed to clear it under an hour, and I hope sundown will be a good opportunity for me to get back to do some decent running.

Met wonder people through running, of course. They ended up being the people I can turn to for help, especially in unexpected situation. And through them I was exposed to more races, which sparked off the breakthrough.

Finally managed to cycle. I wouldn’t say I can cycle given I haven’t cycled since then. But I’d say I can kayak and am managing inline skating fine. It’s pretty amazing how an adventure race actually became a learning journey for myself and some others. Picked up kayaking with calvin (we did our one-star together), jy taught me to cycle and a few of us, known as team coconut then, met up to attempt skating.

It was all good pleasure.

Later, I met hana through the two-star kayaking. It turned out that she was a runner and we have had many good conversations. Besides, we attempted dragon boating together - my first try at it - only to find out it wasn’t what we’re looking for. There was also ht who is the organiser of both kayaking courses.

Met the runners, dawn, chloe and timothy, at kbox. It was a pretty crap session though the company was awesome. I think we should meet at the tracks instead - kbox is obviously not my thing though it was my idea. It was tim’s farewell, in case you think it was my birthday thingy.

Then met sn at night. I’d think it’s been quite a while since we last hang out. Met up with her at her area for supper, more like drinks, and I skated there and back. Pretty challenging. The lights along the track were off by the time I was making my way back, the road surface isn’t even out after some pipe works. Lots of stones, small holes, mostly almost trip me except for this particular depression which sent one of my feet flying. Managed to keep myself balanced though - praise be. Good training though, I find myself having better balance on even surfaces already.

:)

Good day.