Midweek Thoughts and Reflections

WELL! My legs manage to recover in time from the New Balance REAL Run (NBRR) on Sunday for me to join the Triathlonfamily.com people to swim@SMU. Did the following today:-
10x200m
6x50m
Total:2600m
I arrived late, otherwise would have been doing 200m of kicking with the rest of the people. I started strong for the first 3 sets but my shoulders really felt the strain during midsets. The pain only went away during the last 3 sets of the 200m swim. After that I didn't have much juice left for the 50m sprints. Only went all out during the last 100m. All in all was a good workout and hope to make it again for next week. Now that the Mrs has voiced her complaints, looks like I can only go once a week swim rather than twice a week. No worries, will do the rest on weekends I guess.

Looking back at the NBRR, I really wasn't prepared at all. I didn't do any hill training before (and there were some serious slopes!), and didn't try running on sand before the race (that was the killer). Good lesson to be learnt here; really should check out the terrain before plunging in to do something like this. I guess I should be pretty satisfied with my time. I wonder how I will do for the Aquathlon coming up this Sat..... I really hope to improve on my time compared to the Navy Biathlon back in March.

But what I really enjoyed during the NBRR was meeting the people from SGRunners.com. Here are a bunch of running enthusiasts whom I only knew online and now I get to see them face to face!!?? One of them even won a medal! Way-to-go Carine!! :) It really was fun to meet them. Otherwise it would have been just pack up and go after the race. And I got to meet one of my former Lifesaving mates from back in Singapore Poly days! What a coincidence! I remember him being a little bit out of shape then, but now he's really fit! Kudos to you Alvin!

AND GREAT MEETING EVERYBODY FROM SGRUNNERS.COM!!!