EVENT TIME LANE TEAM31 (Yellow) Time: 11:57am
1 Royal Bank of Scotland
2 Papillon
3 MG&G
4 SIA
5 MediaCorp
Dear team,
Our last race of the year as Team Papillon, let's gear up and give our very BEST.
We can do it as a ONE!! Let's row for each other once again!!
Papillon Kiyah!!
*See ya all @ our last gym session @ kallang on Tue...
NB: Meeting time n place of race to be send out in email.
Su Li
Monday, October 29, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
23 Oct 2007 - Gym Training Summary
This evening, everyone arrived a little later than usual. The strange thing was – Coach was still nowhere to be seen! We were openly secretly happy for a while, before Coach appeared – too bad…
And thus we began with a warm-up jog, followed by 4 x 40m sprints. First-appearance Dawn shocked the socks off everyone with her speed and everyone, feeling a bit mutinous today, egged Coach to race with her. Coach upped the stakes by declaring he would relieve us of the 100 push-ups if he lost – GAME ON.
On Christy’s sexy flag-off, Dawn piew-ed off, but a “wait wait wait” was heard – wah lau, FALSE START by Coach. The 2nd time, both shot off and Dawn led the initial distance before Coach overtook and alas, we were doomed to do the 100 push-ups.
Then it was off to the gym. We did just 2 sets of the 5 weights exercises – only because Coach had something more exciting up his short sleeves – we were going to play a real-life, arcade-style rowing game. With 4 in a group, the team which logs greatest total distance on the rowing machine wins a dinner!
Line-ups:
Team A – Freddy, Christy, Jon, Jessica
Team B – Desmond, Ken, Dawn and Su Li (almost disowned by the team cos she offered to surrender – before we even started?!?)
With such an attractive proposition, Ken was all psyched up and everyone gaped in awe as he rowed like a man possessed and threatened to yank the chain off the machine while falling off the seat – a formidable backpack indeed. In other news – Jon was put to the test rowing beside Dawn as her power hamstrings propelled her to achieve good mileage.
It was an exciting game where everyone threw in all the energy they had – well done Teams! Spent and delirious, everyone collapsed with their limbs splayed all over the place. Coach whipped out his trusty handphone to tabulate the total distances (whatever happened to good old mental sums??) And the winning team was… *DRUM ROLL…* Team B!
YAY very good can go for dinner already.
As we sauntered out of the stadium, Jon was observed to be woozy and sat down to rest. Diagnosis by medic-wannabes concluded it was due to: Insufficient warm-up before plunging into the rowing game – resulting in a surge in heart-rate and breathing, causing lightheadedness and a puke-ish feeling. But not to worry, nothing a good meal can’t solve! So we ended with a trip to Coach’s family restaurant where we cleaned up a good deal of the food.
Good workout today and a great makan session after!
Monday, October 8, 2007
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
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
Monday, October 1, 2007
Training Summary 29th Sept '07
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
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
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