This Saturday, Papillons were early and we did proper warm up complete with 80 push ups. When Coach Patrick arrived - surprise, surprise! - we already had our life vests on, all ready to board.
Dennis was promoted to the front left pacer seat for the day, after Jon was urgently called back to the plant.
While resting after a long warm up row, a most curious thing happened. A patch of creamy white was discovered on Dennis' bermudas as he was saying to Su Li "Can you talk to Emily... WHAT-THE-HELL?!?" Yep - Dennis has been struck by the poop bomb from a terrorist bird. In typical Singaporean fashion, the eagle-eyed ones among us immediately spied the bright yellow width/height limitations (15m, 26m) on the Sheares bridge: "Eh look - 15 26! Buy 4D ah!"
(For info: 1526 did not strike anything on Saturday evening.)
In a pace set with Lilies, we pulled away from them very quickly in the front and maintained our lead all the way. Seems like the new stroke works well! - We just need to work on the optimal pace where we are able to catch the water quickly and pull the boat forward, but not rushing and tiring ourselves out prematurely. Comes with more practice.
Pierre set a more specific goal for us for the SDBA 800m Corporate Open race - We will not lose to the NewUrbanMale team this time. A fair enough challenge I would say - let's do it!
All in all, it was a fruitful training - we rowed hard, no complaining, covered good mileage while working the stroke... Like the true Papillons we are, we're showing excellent positive attitude - great stuff!
So Paps, the fire's lighted now - let's keep it burning!
= Chief Editor signing off =
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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