Last week's rowing with Al was a real wake up call for me....

I would never have expected the gap in terms of water sense, technique, and fitness to be so drastically apart.

He's a monster... kicked till my legs cramped and pulled till I thought I was going to die just to try to catch up with him for the short 6km that we did.

But the most scary part was at the end... when he asked me to do pullups.



I now know that I've gotten too comfortable during training. I guess you need to see someone who's better then you can slap yourself and say what the heck are you doing.

Been doing 6 sets of 15 pullups during training ever since. Slowly working towards 6 sets of 20.


Then there was the k2 race today at bedok reservoir.

Firstly I had high hopes partnering Kenny. Then having so many balancing problems in that blue boat which is firstly hard to balance in, secondly, I had to adjust my stroke so that the damned thing wouldn't go usntable. wtf?

So yeah, second thoughts. Thought we were screwed... but I still knew that we were going to give them one hell of a fight if we were going to go down.

But today's race set.... was lucky/fantastic in some ways, although we could have done better in others.

Balance was... suprisingly good... and the traingle stroke which I had to do so that th boat would not flip over and which I thought was just plain retarded worked out in the end. In the end it was Kenny who cocked up the balance abit at the end haha, but no worries, we both did our best. Although the starting sucked, and the ending sucked....

Which if we had done better for, that 0.25 seconds behind the NUS k2 pair and the 0.5 seconds behind the team singapore/hcjc pair would have been in our favour instead.

Things are looking up.

Oh yeah, sensei said that they may be starting a safsa canoeing team.

I may just get to be in the "pioneer" batch.

First things first, regetta.

Probably my last stand against the unis with the team. This one's the big one. I don't care about the simple pleasures of victory or the drive of the fight. This race will mark the end of my vow to make an underdog emerge victorious and end the bitter feud between some factions.