Training Summary 6th Oct

This morning seem different went I arrived at the Kallang Carpark, the whole place was so empty with only Uncle Reh's car.
Anyway, make my way to the training center, only a couple of people turned up......... Then I realised that a big parts of the Papillons are on vacation for various reasons:-
Ben, William, Chirsty, Dennis, Yen Nee, Jon n Desmond are enjoying themselves in Vietnam
Dawn - on national duty(Rugby World Cup....???)
Su Li - continued to skive from last week (attend Church Wedding)....hahaha
Joe - suffered from over enthusiastic rowing from last week.

Well, only 6 brave Papillons - Pierre, Jessica, Ken, Marilyn, Wee Keong and myself reluctantly dragged ourselves to the warm-up ground. Uncle Fred came over to say halo and steered clear from us to join the oldies boat.

After warm-up, we take our time to board the boat, surprising the Coach didn't scold us ...... . Ah Piow decided to sneak into the pacer sit with only Jessica complaining.... and off we go for the warm-up toward the race area. Well today we don't have the long distance row as coach decided to do race set since the nos of rowers are small. We go for a couples of race set.... 300m , 250m, 200m, 150m...... guess how many set did we do..................... closed to 10 sets, this was worse than distance row. By the time we finished the 10th set which is the pacing with Aces and Veteran.... we are already so tired and energy all spend, we are lacking behind but our coordination are still good, we didn't rushed to catch up (because we are too tired to catch-up), stay composed and finished the race with applause coming from the Aces and Veteran.

To our surprise, coach said let head back to the pontoon ( the time is 0945am), we thought coach "liang xin fa xian" for working us too hard!!!!!
Happily we rowed towards the pontoon and suddenly coach shouted "easy"..... everybody was puzzled?????

AS USUAL, since when our coach got "liang Xin"... signed..... we are make to do individual row for unlimited strokes until coach lost count of how many stroke had we rowed...... Finally, Wee Keong individually rowed us back as close as to the pontoon as he could and quickly we joined forces to row home.

Finally we are on land , warm down and time to go home.

P.S: Lesson learnt, next time we should not grant vacation leave for too many member on the same day.

Next Sat Public Holiday day - no training, but don't be too happy..... training changed to Sunday.

Best Regards
Samuel Yeo