Saturday, February 24, 2007
Today for some strange reason, I felt really lethargic and sleepy once I hit the water :/ Well, I was determined to attempt what jiaolian asked me to do, RELAX my shoulders, so that I wouldn't be plastered with salonpas all over after each water training. It was quite imba at first, cos' I still wasn't used to the feeling. But after a while it was pretty much alright.
First 2km: capped 3 times. Can you imagine that?! Deb and I were totally pissed at ourselves la. 3 times! That's the total number of times we capped IN TOTAL at the last water training when we rowed 10km. hmphhh. And we came up with a new acronym! DETAI which means "Don't even think about it" Cos' whenever we see someone cap right in front of us, our boat will suddenly feel very unstable and yeahhhh we'll just rock from side to side. So my standard phrase will be DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! (:wheeee.
Well for the next 9km, it was more "peaceful" haha! We manged to brave the wind (that never seemed to want to let up) and got to burst for almost 500m. yay, I think we're really improving! :D For the last 4km, jiaolian asked me to be the foreman and deb got to be the "stabalizer" shucks, I tell you. After not being the foreman for almost 4 training sessions, it definitely felt weird having to multitask, that's including controlling the rudder, kicking properly and maintaining balance. haha! Panicked at the beginning, but yeah thanks debb! you're a really stable backman! (:
Don't know why we were so "suey" today. haiya, at the 500m mark whilst we were rowing our last 1km, we just had to cap. yuppp, worst place to cap I tell you. Since everyone had finished their sets, there wasn't a single boat in sight that could rescue us -.-" So debb and I had a nice swim towards the mangroves where debb was spooked out cos' we saw a monitor lizard earlier on swimming around.... seee, macritchie reservoir is such an interesting place to row and capsize in HAHA!
Total mileage clocked today: 12km!
nunu deb had to leave at 2pm, so I was left partner-less :( hmmm, then guess what! Jiaolian asked me to try K1! Ambitious me thought that after rowing K2, and being rather stable in it, K1 with the seat on shouldn't be much of a problem. But NOOOOO..... sat in it, paddled 3 times, CAP! haha! embarrassing scene I tell you :/ Decided to just take out the seat and see how I survived and it was actually not bad! :D proud of myself. Went a few rounds around the pond without capping! hahaha! But my butt ached after that, JIANRONG! We have to lose butt mass! K1s are for small-butts (discrimination) hahahaa! nahhh, I shall just have to train till I can balance properly with the seat on (: yupps.
What an eventful water training today! heh.
oh. Just found out from quan (aka circle^2) that bio lecture test is on tuesday... GG. I shall go and mugg now before my andy lau show starts
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9:55 pm
