Chapter 14: The art of racing in the rain
Saturday 8/5/10: we have moved towards endurance trg as we near the june race. today's turnout was exceptionally gd. 11 of us squeezed into the small boat.
There was the usual phenomenon of "leftover". Yes we always have plenty of leftover and coach therefore assigned annie to row right for the entire trg. She has always been sitting in front of me, and nw she's my partner. haha yes in case u dunno, i'm still d 2nd pair. Roarz!
we clocked plenty of mileage. practically the whole trg was set aft set of mileage. we kickstart with this extended set where we started frm sheares bridge, rowed all the way to marina bay sands golf course (?) then towards marina barrage and finally ended back at sheares bridge. That alr shagged us out quite a fair bit!
we then covered dist from sheares bridge to hang bridge (cosy bay). Then back again. We did abt 3 sets of that.
it began to rain, ok no wait..there was this sudden HUGE downpour so coach had to cut short the last set. *hurray!* :p I really really love rowing in the rain.
The feelin is extremely refreshing and manificant! And if there's 1 kinda rain tt i really love, its the kind where it splatter in ur face and d raindrops simply gave no face when it pitter-patter on ur skin.
We were abt to head back to the sdba pontoon when diz team asked if we wanted to pace with them. U noe wad? I was sooo excited at d idea even though i was so shagged aft all the rowing.
At first, coach declined and said, 'no la..they rowed alot today alr" and we went, 'nooo..we wanna race!!"
We had 8 gals and 3 guys on our boat. They had 6 guys and 4 gals (if i didnt recall wrongly..) The 2 boats lined up and face the direction of merdeka bridge. It was abt 300m race course.
"R u ready?"
"Attention!"
"Go!!"
We executed our starts..which wasn't powerful enuf to give us the edge. In fact, I glanced to my left n saw tt they had a lead. They were almost 1 seat in front of us aft we had completed our starts.
The rain continued to pour and we were definitely feeling drenched, cold, and needless to say..hungry!
Hungry to win.
Our pacers, ethan and lynn, kept their composure. We believed that our stroke's effectiveness can only be achieved by executing a gd catch, pull to waist and recover fast.
With d little breath i had left, i shouted, "steady!" Was that for the pacers, for myself, or perhaps for annie? I dunno. It didn't matter anyway so long as it served its purpose. A reminder.
The raindrops continued coming in all direction. The boat was flooded with h2o and it was up to ankle depth. Not that we bothered.
With almost 1/4 of the race left, i took a quick glance to my left again. I cld sense tt tiredness had set in for them and tt gave us the opportunity to overtake them with relative ease. It was evident that we were a gd 2 seats ahead of them!
"Easy"
"Woohoo!" we chorused. It was damn shiok! It was tt awesome feelin of rowing together and trusting in one another. It was way cooler (pun intended) too, that we were racing in the rain.
Sunday 9/5/10: Even with 6 person turning up for trg, we had the same "leftover" issue. As usual, coach made annie row right. Yes, as usual (again..), i'm on the left. 2nd pair.
It was yet another mileage trg session. Today, the boat was quieter and lacked the energy as compared to ytd. Most probably cz half the pple on the boat hang out till late the nite b4..having quite a few drinks at yellow jello to celebrate lynn's bdae.
Well, my partner had diz really constipated look which was probably the combination of a possible hangover effect + why-d-hell-do-i-have-to-row-right again? hahaha i cldnt help but luff each time i saw her face as we are rowing.
For the last mileage set (frm sheares bridge to cosy bay), coach asked if i wanted to row right to swap with annie.
I readily agreed!
On our way frm cosy bay back to SDBA, we did stroke correction.
In the midst of doing stroke correction, aka the "taichi" stroke..it began to rain again! Heavily somemore.
Gosh i simply felt so gd. Everytime it rains, 孙燕姿's <超快感> will ring in my head.
感覺對了我要出發 用我自己的步伐 告別所有舊的想法
別害怕 不像話 你怕了嗎 還懷疑嗎
放開一切體溫雂蠹 是否就是情緒化 被愛迷惑不上不下 夠了吧 算了吧
說真心話 你善良嗎 往前追 不後退
I FEEL SO GOOD 快提高分貝 为了愛 把速度都加倍
沒有人跟幸福做對 沒有時間浪費 做好全部心理準備
心跳起飛 不能放棄隨便徹退 每次愛的機 心在醉
心在飛 我敢追 愛就是 超快感 俐落乾脆 不会累
so..wad is the art of racing in the rain?
"that which you manifest is before you"
There was the usual phenomenon of "leftover". Yes we always have plenty of leftover and coach therefore assigned annie to row right for the entire trg. She has always been sitting in front of me, and nw she's my partner. haha yes in case u dunno, i'm still d 2nd pair. Roarz!
we clocked plenty of mileage. practically the whole trg was set aft set of mileage. we kickstart with this extended set where we started frm sheares bridge, rowed all the way to marina bay sands golf course (?) then towards marina barrage and finally ended back at sheares bridge. That alr shagged us out quite a fair bit!
we then covered dist from sheares bridge to hang bridge (cosy bay). Then back again. We did abt 3 sets of that.
it began to rain, ok no wait..there was this sudden HUGE downpour so coach had to cut short the last set. *hurray!* :p I really really love rowing in the rain.
The feelin is extremely refreshing and manificant! And if there's 1 kinda rain tt i really love, its the kind where it splatter in ur face and d raindrops simply gave no face when it pitter-patter on ur skin.
We were abt to head back to the sdba pontoon when diz team asked if we wanted to pace with them. U noe wad? I was sooo excited at d idea even though i was so shagged aft all the rowing.
At first, coach declined and said, 'no la..they rowed alot today alr" and we went, 'nooo..we wanna race!!"
We had 8 gals and 3 guys on our boat. They had 6 guys and 4 gals (if i didnt recall wrongly..) The 2 boats lined up and face the direction of merdeka bridge. It was abt 300m race course.
"R u ready?"
"Attention!"
"Go!!"
We executed our starts..which wasn't powerful enuf to give us the edge. In fact, I glanced to my left n saw tt they had a lead. They were almost 1 seat in front of us aft we had completed our starts.
The rain continued to pour and we were definitely feeling drenched, cold, and needless to say..hungry!
Hungry to win.
Our pacers, ethan and lynn, kept their composure. We believed that our stroke's effectiveness can only be achieved by executing a gd catch, pull to waist and recover fast.
With d little breath i had left, i shouted, "steady!" Was that for the pacers, for myself, or perhaps for annie? I dunno. It didn't matter anyway so long as it served its purpose. A reminder.
The raindrops continued coming in all direction. The boat was flooded with h2o and it was up to ankle depth. Not that we bothered.
With almost 1/4 of the race left, i took a quick glance to my left again. I cld sense tt tiredness had set in for them and tt gave us the opportunity to overtake them with relative ease. It was evident that we were a gd 2 seats ahead of them!
"Easy"
"Woohoo!" we chorused. It was damn shiok! It was tt awesome feelin of rowing together and trusting in one another. It was way cooler (pun intended) too, that we were racing in the rain.
Sunday 9/5/10: Even with 6 person turning up for trg, we had the same "leftover" issue. As usual, coach made annie row right. Yes, as usual (again..), i'm on the left. 2nd pair.
It was yet another mileage trg session. Today, the boat was quieter and lacked the energy as compared to ytd. Most probably cz half the pple on the boat hang out till late the nite b4..having quite a few drinks at yellow jello to celebrate lynn's bdae.
Well, my partner had diz really constipated look which was probably the combination of a possible hangover effect + why-d-hell-do-i-have-to-row-right again? hahaha i cldnt help but luff each time i saw her face as we are rowing.
For the last mileage set (frm sheares bridge to cosy bay), coach asked if i wanted to row right to swap with annie.
I readily agreed!
On our way frm cosy bay back to SDBA, we did stroke correction.
In the midst of doing stroke correction, aka the "taichi" stroke..it began to rain again! Heavily somemore.
Gosh i simply felt so gd. Everytime it rains, 孙燕姿's <超快感> will ring in my head.
感覺對了我要出發 用我自己的步伐 告別所有舊的想法
別害怕 不像話 你怕了嗎 還懷疑嗎
放開一切體溫雂蠹 是否就是情緒化 被愛迷惑不上不下 夠了吧 算了吧
說真心話 你善良嗎 往前追 不後退
I FEEL SO GOOD 快提高分貝 为了愛 把速度都加倍
沒有人跟幸福做對 沒有時間浪費 做好全部心理準備
心跳起飛 不能放棄隨便徹退 每次愛的機 心在醉
心在飛 我敢追 愛就是 超快感 俐落乾脆 不会累
so..wad is the art of racing in the rain?
"that which you manifest is before you"
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