Chapter 21: Shag, Shag Shag, Shag Shag Shag
If u tink coach was gonna go easy on us since it was the beginning of a new season, think again. After all the partyin of 2010, we resumed trg on 8 Jan 2011.
Anw, here's what we were generously rewarded for our hat-trick win to be reigning champions of the Inter Corporarte Mix Race in Regatta, for the 3rd consecutive year:
Monetary rewards
1) Red Adidas Jacket with "OCBC Group" logo on the front and DRAGONBOAT at the back
2) $ to buy new lifejackets and send all the lifejackets for printing of "OCBC Group" logo!
3) $$$ for post race celebration at Butter Factory
Non monetary rewards
1) Featured in the cover page of our bank's monthly publication- Teller magazine
Wishful thinking to pay raise and promotion! If this is a platform for career advancement, everyone will be dying to join dragonboat. Then we wouldn't have only just nice to form a mixed team and women's team for Regatta. That means during Regatta, we only had 6 guys and 12 ladies. 18 rowers in the team.
Haha ok I digressed, majorly. Anw we had 3 trainings ever since the start of 2011. Coach really had no mercy. Allow me to elaborate hw he tortured us during last wk's trg:
-10 sets of 40 strokes (now that's ok..)
-1000m set x 2 (shagged..)
-800m set x 2 (super CMI..)
Mind u, we have NOT done anything more than 300m ever since Nov 2010. Then he decided to make us row 1000m. We thought that was ok. At the end of the 1000m set, he said "easy row" and we tapped water, eagerly anticipating a 'stop rowing' from him. Aft tapping water for a gd 30sec, he shouted "Ready? Go!" and there, off we went. For the 2nd set of 1000m.
We havent even had time to catch back our breath! Perhaps only a momentararily brief instance where we stared at our partner in disbelief, jaw-drop at the fact tt we had to go for another 1000m. Like, WTF?
We survived the gruelling 2nd 1000m set, with a drastic drop in average speed to 8.4-8.6kmh.
I was panting like a mad dog aft the 2 sets.
Coach gave us a gd 5min rest and then said we were gonna go for another 2 x 1000m.
*Plenty of whining and negotiation*
"Ok, I give u discount. 800m"
My back has never ached like this for a loooong time. It feels like a coagulated hard lump.
We concluded that he tortured us cz he forgot that we are a corporate team. Rang joined us for trg (for d 2nd time diz yr) and he probably wanted to let our guest feel very welcome. He must have forgotten that the remaining 11 of us are corporate team rowers, nt national team.
The best part? Coach said, "We'll do more sex(sets) next week..back to back one"
Roarz.
Wad fails to kill u makes u stronger!
Anw, here's what we were generously rewarded for our hat-trick win to be reigning champions of the Inter Corporarte Mix Race in Regatta, for the 3rd consecutive year:
Monetary rewards
1) Red Adidas Jacket with "OCBC Group" logo on the front and DRAGONBOAT at the back
2) $ to buy new lifejackets and send all the lifejackets for printing of "OCBC Group" logo!
3) $$$ for post race celebration at Butter Factory
Non monetary rewards
1) Featured in the cover page of our bank's monthly publication- Teller magazine
Wishful thinking to pay raise and promotion! If this is a platform for career advancement, everyone will be dying to join dragonboat. Then we wouldn't have only just nice to form a mixed team and women's team for Regatta. That means during Regatta, we only had 6 guys and 12 ladies. 18 rowers in the team.
Haha ok I digressed, majorly. Anw we had 3 trainings ever since the start of 2011. Coach really had no mercy. Allow me to elaborate hw he tortured us during last wk's trg:
-10 sets of 40 strokes (now that's ok..)
-1000m set x 2 (shagged..)
-800m set x 2 (super CMI..)
Mind u, we have NOT done anything more than 300m ever since Nov 2010. Then he decided to make us row 1000m. We thought that was ok. At the end of the 1000m set, he said "easy row" and we tapped water, eagerly anticipating a 'stop rowing' from him. Aft tapping water for a gd 30sec, he shouted "Ready? Go!" and there, off we went. For the 2nd set of 1000m.
We havent even had time to catch back our breath! Perhaps only a momentararily brief instance where we stared at our partner in disbelief, jaw-drop at the fact tt we had to go for another 1000m. Like, WTF?
We survived the gruelling 2nd 1000m set, with a drastic drop in average speed to 8.4-8.6kmh.
I was panting like a mad dog aft the 2 sets.
Coach gave us a gd 5min rest and then said we were gonna go for another 2 x 1000m.
*Plenty of whining and negotiation*
"Ok, I give u discount. 800m"
My back has never ached like this for a loooong time. It feels like a coagulated hard lump.
We concluded that he tortured us cz he forgot that we are a corporate team. Rang joined us for trg (for d 2nd time diz yr) and he probably wanted to let our guest feel very welcome. He must have forgotten that the remaining 11 of us are corporate team rowers, nt national team.
The best part? Coach said, "We'll do more sex(sets) next week..back to back one"
Roarz.
Wad fails to kill u makes u stronger!
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