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I picked up Akiko from the airport at 10pm. It is really quite late, yet we had to drive another 3 hours to the mountain area so I can attend the swim in the morning. I was really sleepy during the drive, had to ask Akiko to keep talking to me. My weak mind and body often shut down around 11 pm. Along the way, I was still trying to spot the cute betel nut girl in transparent box for Akiko to take picture. That was the only excitment.
Grace came to greet us, I fell into deep, deep sleep right after my head touching down the pillow. When Grace woke me up around 5:30, I sadly felt it is so true the good time is always so short (however, I was the only one who had good sleep since Akiko, Grace and Kevin couldn't sleep the whole night).
I had no breakfast, drowned myself with 2 cups of coffee, refused to wear the wetsuit and jumped into the lake at 7:45. (We cheated our way into the first few batches to get into the water, pretending we were some other group... very bad. It would be better to get it over with soon before twenty thousand swimmers all jump in).
The water was cold and wavy. I started to feel dizzy, headache followed. I felt very much like to throw up but thinking I should better do it when I reach the other side. Also thinking I am the youngest in the group, should not lose out to other older guys. What's more important, there is a free lunch box for every swimmer. It didn't feel like a 3.3km swim, I reached over in little bit more than an hour and polished my lunch box before everyone else.
We took the boat ride back to where we started. In the boat, a friend said that he was stopping over in one of the floating platform for a break and saw a girl holding the rim of the platform, looking very troubled. He walked over and asked if he can help. The girl's face went red and the mid-age woman next to her said "Oh, it is really no big deal, she just cannot pee". Obviously it is not that easy to pee in water.
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