Thursday, March 18, 2010

Crunch Time

Just realized I haven't been blogging. Work is really piling up (as usual) but definitely beats doing nothing. Kind of excited for the month to come. Foresee April to be a rather short month. Lots of "outings".

Okie enough about work, now about life. Just did my first ever Singapore Biathlon. Experience, awesome but not loving the swimming leg. First time swam such a distance in open water, the feeling is very different from doing it in pool, partly coz you do not get to kick off the wall at every 50m.=P but the swim was not as bad as I imagined. Not used to having so many people swimming around me. Got punch, elbowed and kicked umpteen times, breast-strokers should seriously take outer lanes. I was literally escorted by 4 breast strokers man. Nothing wrong with that stroke just that they require a huge surface area and have very powerful kicks.... hahaha Nevertheless managed to exit the water with minimal damage. Let my nerve get the better of me thus wasted quite abit of time at the transition area as I look for my stuff and suit up. Start of the run was slow, needed time to catch my breath as it picked up then it was not too bad. Overall a great experience. Here is my timing.

Swim : 00:32:09
Run: 00:53:4
Overall: 01:25:53

Pretty contented for a first timer. My personal target i aim to achieve was 1 hrs 45 mins. This event was more special as I did it with a bunch of new friends all passionate sports person. Its different doing the sports alone (which I normally do) and with friends.



All the survivors! Great job everyone.

This weekend will be yet another fun filled weekend, very packed thou. So will blog about it when i get the chance to...

Bye for now... back to work...