Osim Singapore International Triathlon 2007

The annual event is here – 28 July 2007 & 29 July 2007.

Here, after months of preparation or rather training, the “Big Day” had arrived. The night before i had worked till late and wanted to get as much rest as possible. The transport that i had arrange will pick me and W at 7.30am. Followed by ZY before heading towards EC.

I do not know if i had slept at all cause i just can’t simply get into deep sleep. My mind is too active about the coming up event. But there is one thing for sure is that i am not abit stress. I woke up at 6am and headed for a warm bath and mummy made me a cup of hot milo and i could not able to eat at the moment so i decided to pack some biscuit for me to munch on so that i will not feel hungry later on. I managed to get a lotus bun before boarded to the van. More like an MPV. Is very comfortable. W commented that we are like professional cause we got our own vehicle. Hahaha…

Upon reaching there, i am like yucks the whole area are damn muddy and i had to push “SKY” thru the muddy area to reach the transition. OMG… Is really so damn dirty and i say to SKY” Sorry baby, i got no strength to carry thru the patches of dirty water and don’t worry, i will clean you up once i am done with the competition.” Trust me, you need to talk to your bike, thou it is non-livivng thing but i believe it know that what i want. Hahaha..

When i see the sea, i know that i am not in the mood to swim at all. I know that i cannot swim well then. I am suffering from the “monthly cramp.” Touching the cold water made me sick and i am like “shit, what am i doing here.” Nevermind, i just pray to go thru it asap. ZY and i were in the same wave. “Beep” off we goes and i could not think of anything. Is all blank. Shortly after, i kana a kick in the stomach and that is, i cannot stretch anymore. So painful and i really struggle thru the swimming and i even had the thought of giving up. But determination made me go on. Swimming really disappoint me.

Finally i am out from the water and headed for the transition and ZY was already there, she good man.. I am still in pain when i see her and both of us still talk and she open a packet of power gel for me too. Because i need not to change so i had to go head off for my bike and hope to end the whole thing faster. This is something about triathlon, is all about yourself and not about winning others. If you are able to do a good timing, you win the race.

The bike section is 20km, somehow i enjoyed the bike part. Maybe i had to bend down most of the time and i feel comfortable and the pain somehow is under control. I don’t know is my mind playing or is really true that i am not in pain at all. I still manage to ride well, i think. haha

The run part, i think at this moment….the pair of leg that carried me to run does not belong to me anymore. I am somehow struggle thru and i saw L & D at the finishing supporting me. K was there too. He wanted to exprience the way OSIM Triathlon so as to prepare for next year. Finally when i saw the finishing line, how i wish i got to power just to fly over but too bad, i simply had to open up my stride and finish it. Oh yeah, i done it. Is my first Triathlon. I need to thanks A for the registration and his call from Shanghai.

After the race, i am super tired and then i am waiting for W & the rest to be back from their race. Is then i came to realise that W fell and and we could not locate him anymore. I had already cleaned up myself and i now had to head back to the dirty transition area to see if his stuff is still there. True enough, his stuff is still there and we went around asking for his whereabout. D , L and friend had been asking here and there too and finally i went to the ambulance and ask if they did sent any injury to the hospital and that we found out his location. We rushed all the way to the hospital and fetch back from there. Wet, cold and sleepy and most of all worried if he is ok. Finally, we get to see him and glad that my training partner is ok and still can laugh with us. L even treat him to a feast of durian to console him. haha. See how easy satisfied he is. Really thanks to D & K for coming to support Spassion.

The result is not out yet. The photos are not out as well.. So stay tunned for the pixs….

Swimming sucks…

I went for my so called last training before approaching the annual OSIM 2007.

I went for a swim at the Jurong west swimming complex, with my training mate, W.

Before that he told me about one of the expartiate working in Singapore had to spend SGD10k a month on hotel and ask W to look for a service apartment for him. W in a way is complaining to me that staying in a HDB flat is already good enough. This i agreed with him.

The water in the pool is freezing cold, really cold, icy cold… I can feel myself trembling when i get into the water. Do not have any workout in mind, just want to swim and swim till i feel tired. Thou i am not that tired after the 20 laps but decided to call it for a day caz i saw W had already stopped his. So i did not want him to wait for me and i follow suit to stop at lap 20.

The swim is ok lor and i did not keep any target or timing. Simply just want to tapper down for the body to get ample rest and looking forward to OSIM 2007.

After swimming for 20 laps, i still feel cold. Normally by then, my body temperature will adapt accordingly to the water but no lor. I decided that it is not advisable to stay too long  in the water. Realised today is a fast workout. Get it done with and quickly take a shower before heading home. Miss mama’s dishes thou not hungry.

But the sad part is she did not leave any much for me to eat…haha..No rice, no dishes, only left with the duck with sea cucumber. Simple yet so tasteful. Yummy… Then she “compenstated” me by working noodles for me.See that the reason i always love my mama.

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Had a terrible busy day at work

i been working since 730am this morning. I had tonnes of paper lying around the table. I feel like burning it all into ashes. Haha. The thoughts make me happy.. Received an email which i hate to reply and just so nice, the boss asked me how do i want to reply him. I told my boss “Boss, my horoscope say i am not suitable to work today, can you reply on my behalf.” Upon hearing that, M asked my boss since when he employ an auntie to work, cause only her mother-in-law will believe in that. See at least, i make their day.

I keep clearing documents after documents. I don’t have the time to read thru properly. I don’t know if i had made any mistake in the process. Never lah..The day had passed and i cannot go back time, right.

After work, the weather don seem nice and so i told W, we should go to the gym and do circuit training instead. After some hesitating, we go ahead with the gym training. We met about 7 plus and we did cycle and run. I did my cycling for 30 mins and i am already tired out.I still managed to run for 20mins – completed 3.8km.

Really feeling stressed and training make me feel good. I am listening to buddhsim CD given to me by L. I appreciate her sharing and i enjoyed the CD. The talk make me feel englighten alot. When i am able to understand further, maybe i can share with more. 

There is a need for me

to write… Been holding within the feeling within me for days…

I attended the funeral of R’s dad last saturday. Thou the thingy started at 11am but i arrived only at 12pm. By the time i reached, the last prayer for him had already ended. They are getting ready to proceed to Mandai Crematorium after lunch.

I go thru the whole process and they are like my second family to me. I can’t bear the thoughts and the tiring look on the mum’s face is really unbearable. Surprisingly, the caretaker of the funeral happened to be my dad’s god-sis. Anyway, i walked together with the family before boarding the bus to the destinated place.

Upon reaching, we proceeded to the service hall and the whole thing is very organised. We are being lead thru the whole process. The part when we went to the viewing hall is the most unbearable. Tears and heartpain is really unspeakable. R told me that she is less sad than expected. I could not control my tears too so she ended up console me.

After the whole funeral ended, think it’s time to “tidy up the feelings” and move on with the life.

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Wanted to go for a swim after that but hunger strike me so i need to eat. I can’t remember what had i eaten. Anyway the weather had not been nice to me so after lunch, i decided to head for home to finish my DVD. The show that i been watching is (on the first beat.) 《 学 警 出 更 》。I watched the show cause i like the actors in the show but the show is not that exciting after all. Since i had already rented the DVD so might well finish watching it but i failed to do so. Halfway thru, i fall asleep.

Did not do much on sat cause i do not have the mood to do anything but to be a slacker at home.

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Sun morning, the weather seemed nice and i decided to head for a swim. Thinking of swimming 30 laps but ended up only 20 laps. My swimming is getting for bad to worst. How huh, Osim is on this sat….OMG and i am not abit prepared for this race at all. Anyway, since already joined so might well complete the race for exprience ba.

Not so good….when such things happened

Received a call from R on tues afternoon. Her dad passed away. Remember my posting sometimes back. He is still talking to me happily.

I am very shocked as the moment that i spent with him still appearing vivdly in my memories. I am not taking it well. I don’t like the parting moments. The feeling is really terrible. I can’t describe it.

Decided not to bother her with all the questions so decided to make a trip with my family to the wake today. So i go ahead with my ride thou my moods is not there yet. Memories and tears are simply flowing over and over again.

I just back from the wake – my mum, sisters and J are there with me. We can see that R’s mum is very tired and R as well. Did not manage to talk lots with her but can know what she is thinking about. Afterall, we had been friends since Secondary school days.. Think either i will make one more trip before the whole affair ended.

<RIP..uncle…God Bless You>

Something seem to be missing ….

When we are all training hard for the annual Poly 50. Everyone seem to be complaining this and that. Especially me”Captain, you sure want to do this set of training, i cannot take it anymore.” This goes on & on..The aftermath effect is quite hard for me as well.

Though i might not be the regular runner for tuesday, but at least i will turn up on thur for training. The process of the competition is very hard and tough but beautiful. The looks on the runners esp the guy are very pitful. Haha. The agony of pain is unbearable. We or rather i, seem to be missing from something. LJ is telling me today that he missed Poly 50. Haha…

Now, I am looking forward to Osim Triathlon. LJ did mention before that Triathlon is a very lonely sports. I agreed with him. Poly 50 is a team work and everyone is there to support, to encourage one another. Osim Triathlon is a self-moviated sports. No matter how tired and weak i feel, i can only keep telling myself – C’mon, just a bit more and just enjoy the process of completion.

Think i better turn in early as i am going to have a long day and i be going for a ride tomorrow night. Think i will lay flat at cycling cause i had not been riding for 2 weeks. OMG..See how am i going to suffer tomorrow night. To conserve energy, sleep is more important now. Ciaos..

Poly 50…yeah!

11 July 2007 is the annual event for Singapore Polytechnic. It is the Poly 50 day…. I will let the photos speak for me in this posting..

 The pic on the top – Our usual gathering point @ FC 5. C – the guy with spec is our newly recruited. Very determined guy. The guy behind – B. His nick is a man without lungs. He can continue running without any sweat. Cool!

The pic on the bottom – Ms L. Despite her busy schedule, she still make it for this event. Really appreciate for her commitment. With us, there are V & C. Ya..V is also our newly recruited guy and C is our pretty helper-She is a good swimmer.

The pic in the mid showing L is drawing our team name “Spassion” on me. I got the longest drawing among all. OMG!! I am the only one who got the legs drawn as well. The rest is like “no..no…” Hahaha.

 Our pre race photo – No sweat yet and still manage to make monkey faces and all the cool cool patterns. Later u guys going to die soon..hahaha.. Running 19 x of 200m with an interval of 1.30min is never easy.

 When i am taking this photo happily, my captain commented – think only the ger can pose.. The guys are already dying flat. lolx…At this stage, i am already doing my 5th time. Only the last lap before the thing ended. The only thing i can do is to encourage the guys – movitate them..Telling them we are moving towards the single digit.

 Waiting for the prize presentation.Yeah..Spassion came in third. Great !! We had done it again. Wonderful feeling. Great Job Spassion. So proud of everyone one of us..

 Once again, we are up again at podium. But we do not have the chance to shout our cheers. The MC called up the 2nd position up to the stage …After spending 1hr down at the fighting ground, they should at least let us spend 多一些些时间 to enjoy the “glory”, right!!Haha

 We had dinner at Sakura – Clementi Woods.. I cannot eat much. Think i am too tired from the cheering and running. The rest of the guys really enjoyed themselves throughly. They “pig out” Haha. At the same time, we celebrated W’s advance birthday. “Happy Birthday W.”

Saucony run…

Saucony run on sun is quite an interesting run. Thou not too much Spassionates are involved but W**, Z***** and myself are there for the event.

Find the legend is quite well-defined. This is good for all runners to go thru before the race.  At least when they started running, they will not feel so blured. Especially me. I will normally go thru the route and look out for all promient landmark.

The run – women’s open flagged off is at 8am. The inital part is still so comfort and i try not to push myself too hard. I got tired and take a look at my watch..OMG..i had been running and realised that i had only ran for 6mins.. I am already so tired and is only 6mins. How am i going to survive. Based on my own estimation, i think i covered only about 1km or more. Shit..i still had 9km more to go.

Now is more of mental game, just tell yourself..just jog thru and look forward for thr drinking point. When i reached the 4km point, i saw 100 plus..Cool and sparking 100 plus and shiok and i feel so energized after the drink. Haha.. Feel so recharged and going at a faster paced and managed to cut guys… hahaha..

Run is getting better but till the 9km, i feel shaken and i consoled that no matter how slow i am, i need another 10mins and the run will be finished. okok..i am telling myself..C’mon, run the last km and i will enjoyed tons of 100-plus. Haha

I had yet to get my proper rest and it over…

My weekends… i don’t seem to get enough rest and the next thing i know, it over. Why?? Friday, i had a tiring and long night… Wanted to watch finish 千谎百计。Really boring in the inital part and things get really excited coming to the end. This show had been choosen by me to watch and being scolded for renting such an lousy show.

But toward the end, everyone seem to glue to the TV, boring still watch..”phui”…hahaha…This show tells me that no matter how cunning, how well-planned a con artisit can arrange / plan to trick. There is always a weakness in them. So believe in karma.

I decided to sleep late on sat but don’t know why, my eyes cannot closed leh. I woke up at 7.30am and thou i can’t sleep but i just “nuah” on bed watching TV. Feel so lazy, damn lazy. Normally by this time, i be doing sports. So finally can make myself standing on my feet and headed for leg massage but before that, i went to the temple and pray and i saw the mediacorp artisits – Royston Tan & family. Realised that Chen Liping is not that big sized after all thou is not those bone-skinny type.

The leg massage is terrible on sat. The auntie pressed my thighs so hard that i feel like pulling hairs… OMG !! But the after effect is still not so bad – Legs feel so light after that.

Went to beach road hawker centre for claypot rice. I did not know there is a famous claypot stall there. We had to wait more than 1/2hr for the rice. But is worth the waiting cause i find it nice. Maybe i had not been eating rice for some times… I am the type that do not like to consume too much carbo. The reason that i eat rice cause i need to load carbo for the run on sun. Saucony run @ east coast park.

Had an early rest on sat night cause i had to wake up 5 plus in the morning..