My first Boy's Brigade Adventure Quest training (1st entry to be marked)
‘Success is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.’ This statement made by Thomas Edison is very true! Only with sheer hard work, the impossible will be accomplished and success will arrive! This is something I learnt though training sessions conducted during my CCA to prepare us for a competition…
‘Huff puff huff puff…’I panted as I pushed myself beyond my limits. ‘Just another three more laps round the school and my 7 km run is over!’ I tried my best to motivate myself but I was just too tired and breathless to think positively. I was determined to finish the 7 km jog as I was running under the baking red-hot sun. Now, you would think, why am I jogging in such weather and in such a long, torturous distance when I should be in the comfort of my home revising my homework or watching television?
Well, every year, the Boys’ Brigade of Singapore organises an extremely physically challenging competition known as the Boys’ Brigade Adventure Quest (BBAQ). This competition is an adventure race to promote characteristics of teamwork, endurance, fighting spirit and to encourage youths to attempt activities across rural and urban Singapore.
This year, I have decided to take on the challenge of participating in this event and represent my Victoria School in the competition. Thus I had to train very hard twice a week. From all these intense and vigorous training, the values of perseverance, determination, and the courage to take on great challenges were instilled in me.
As I kept on running laps after laps around the school, two words kept flashes across my mind, ‘ NEVER STOP’! I knew that once I stop running and walk to catch my breath, I would lose my momentum, thus making it an uphill task to pick up my rhythm again. I faced up to the challenge and never stopped. My face was red and drenched with sweat and heat. I was
feeling giddy from exhaustion. However, as the saying goes, ‘ Sports do not create a character, it reveals them.’ And through the 7 km run, I realized the importance of determination. I managed to complete the run in a timing of 39minutes, and I did not stop running till the end!
‘ Wow! That run felt like marathon!’ I said jokingly as I cooled myself down after the torturous run. To be honest, after the fifth lap around the school, I felt that it is more the mind rather than fitness that would determine whether I could complete the run in a good timing. As the saying goes, ‘Mind over body’. With a mind filled with determination and motivation, one will succeed as the state of mind will eventually triumph over the state of the body.
‘Huff puff huff puff…’I panted as I pushed myself beyond my limits. ‘Just another three more laps round the school and my 7 km run is over!’ I tried my best to motivate myself but I was just too tired and breathless to think positively. I was determined to finish the 7 km jog as I was running under the baking red-hot sun. Now, you would think, why am I jogging in such weather and in such a long, torturous distance when I should be in the comfort of my home revising my homework or watching television?
Well, every year, the Boys’ Brigade of Singapore organises an extremely physically challenging competition known as the Boys’ Brigade Adventure Quest (BBAQ). This competition is an adventure race to promote characteristics of teamwork, endurance, fighting spirit and to encourage youths to attempt activities across rural and urban Singapore.
This year, I have decided to take on the challenge of participating in this event and represent my Victoria School in the competition. Thus I had to train very hard twice a week. From all these intense and vigorous training, the values of perseverance, determination, and the courage to take on great challenges were instilled in me.
As I kept on running laps after laps around the school, two words kept flashes across my mind, ‘ NEVER STOP’! I knew that once I stop running and walk to catch my breath, I would lose my momentum, thus making it an uphill task to pick up my rhythm again. I faced up to the challenge and never stopped. My face was red and drenched with sweat and heat. I was
feeling giddy from exhaustion. However, as the saying goes, ‘ Sports do not create a character, it reveals them.’ And through the 7 km run, I realized the importance of determination. I managed to complete the run in a timing of 39minutes, and I did not stop running till the end!‘ Wow! That run felt like marathon!’ I said jokingly as I cooled myself down after the torturous run. To be honest, after the fifth lap around the school, I felt that it is more the mind rather than fitness that would determine whether I could complete the run in a good timing. As the saying goes, ‘Mind over body’. With a mind filled with determination and motivation, one will succeed as the state of mind will eventually triumph over the state of the body.
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