At 7.45AM sharp, a crowd of keen rowers gathered. Although Capt Ong and a few familiar faces were missing (Pierre, Ben, Desmond, William, Dawn - the formidable backpacks), there was still a decent turn up of 9. Among us were new members like Wee Keong and Mighty Joe Young who were given quick guidance on the papillon style of dragonboating.
Training begins with tyre strapped to our boat and we did about 10-15mins rowed as warm up. Afterwhich speedwork of 4,3,2,1 and 3,2,1 were done to pump up our heart rate. Like a engine fully warmed and lubricated, we did abt 2 sets of 400m race simulation to glide between floating platform to sheares bridge.
At 930am, we answered the call for pacing. Aces, Lilies and Veterans were in sight and we did 2 race sets. In case you are wondering, No~,by this time we had our tyre lifted for obvious reason. However, the absence of our key backpacks were clearly felt. We could have done better considering our gym trainings. In between the sets, we found time to celebrate Ken Lim's birthday with a simple cake and mass birthday song combined with other boats.
Before I end this, Papillon, let's stay focus in the remaining weeks to Regatta. Remember all glory comes from daring to begin!~we had already begun, so March On!~
Jonathan
Monday, October 1, 2007
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