Fat and Slow is my Middle Name
After so much booking and canceling of my ippt, unable to take due to the rain, i finally took my ippt today.
Book the 4pm slot as i dun think im able to drag myself to khatib camp on a 730am, woke up at around 11+ today and i see dark clouds which really made me so angsty and emo. And it actually rained for like 10mins but luckily the skies is clear after tt and i made my way via bus 965 to khatib camp around 3pm+.
On the bus i actually saw some of the 'ns' men also going for their ippt, its so ez to spot cause everyone is wearing like a tee and a pair of running shoes.
upon reaching khatib camp, there's even more of ns men strolling into the camp for their RT / IPPT. Registered myself and put my bag in the locker, before the start of the ippt, i went to open my locker but im unable to open the locker, for a moment i thought i went to the wrong locker but its the number i rem correctly. and the password also couldnt be wrong. That really made me kan chiong for a moment and i thought it would be such a day spoiler to have my belonging locked up when coming for ippt. Luckily there was another guy whom was having problem with the locker and the PTI actually have a set of master key to unlock the locker, so i get his help to unlock mine. Phew!
The ippt started about 4pm+ after the brief and its really Own Time Own Target so we can choose which station we wanna do first and just go, at first i still thought need queue for detail and etc, which is what we use to have during the national service period.
Everything was pretty alright till the last station, the shuttle run, which due to my slippery shoe, which made me fall face down onto the floor when i was going to run, but thank goodness support myself with my forearm and didnt get injured.
I was actually amazed with the electronic system as it will recorded your best score for each station and dun have to worry the score being misplace.
Finally done with the 4 static station and proceed to the track for the 2.4km run, the station i hated most in my life. There was abit of delayed due to the medic not around and have to wait for sometime before commence of the run. Wanted to time myself with my watch, as i usually did that to moniter my speed for each round, but i pressed the wrong button when i started the run and so i can only depend on the electronic time board for my each round timing =( it was quite crowded on the track as there are quite a numbers of personnal taking ippt today and i feel quite like a F1 driver driffting left and right to avoid accident. Finally finished my round and the result is kinda disappointing. Kinda disappointed because I did went for some jog and even timed myself during my 2.4km runs before the handball training and manage to get timing like 9.44- 10mins to prepare myself for this ippt. But still, missed the gold timing by 10sec which made me feel as if i loss $200 in 10 sec. =(
Perhaps im really not good enough for gold standard! =/
Quite affected the disappointment and i no choice have to get packets of Pop-Corns and snacks to cheer myself up.