I hate mosquitoe bites! Especially recently. I think that the mosquitoes in my room have evolved some how... usually mosquitoe bites are a so small, and they itch a little... but these bites... they swell up to about 20cents or 1 dollar coin sizes by themselves - and they aren't that itchy. Haaaaaate! It gives me such pleasure to smack them when they are in mid flight, or even better when you just miss, but the nearby impace/shockwave kills them instantly/renders them into shock.
Sweet sweet revenge.
Canoeing training yesterday went pretty well. Alot of sweet girls... *grins*, and Samantha is very nice and friendly. Running was at a really slow pace. I have no idea how much we ran, because we went out of school, then over to Bishan Park and back through ajc then the mrt station. Monday's fartlek sets seemed to have a little effect on my running yesterday. Then the damn recovering sprained ankle got tight again, but I managed to loosen it up somehow halfway during the run. Yongqiang's running is pretty good, you can tell by the technique, then there's this other guy, Kenny. Not sure if he's new or not, but he's extremely tense... so tense that his shoulders come up like he's doing a perpetual shrug.
Pullups were okay... 4 sets of 12, managed to finish. I think all the canoeing guys pullups cannot make it... Yongqiang couldn't complete the sets, and Hong da wouldn't release all the way down after contractions. Then Kenny's pullups cannot make it at all.
And pushups... ugh... Samantha kept counting so insanely fast... none of the guys could keep up. I mean... 4 sets of 45 - you cannot still be going at a rate of 1.4 pushups/second by the second set.
4 sets of 60 crunches at otot was much more pleasureable.
After that we went to the weights room. The rest did weights will Samantha tutored Kenny and my stroke. Ech... It was more difficult doing air paddling then in the boat, as I don't have the feel yet, I couldn't gauge how low to go, etc. But Samantha was super patient and smiley. I must go and do some research on the punching part of the stroke later today.
Managed to do a 3 minute set with ... forgot his name.
Next training is on thursday... so I'm not sure which part to train with Stephen today.
I can't wait for Saturday's rowing - right now my list to excel past, in order of easist to hardest is:
Kenny
forgot his name
Hong Da
Yong Qiang
May change on thursday after further assessment and more guys turn up.
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Yesterday's unnofficial training was pretty fun. Ben was there again, saw him doing circuits when I arrived. Ran 1.6k with Stephen, then did 1.2k Gerschler Fartlek variations. Then hit the weights.
After much discussion with Stephen, we kicked out some exercises from our last shoulder routine and put in shrugs at the end. Yesterday's focal muscle group - shoulder + treps.
Will start benchmarking from today.
Behind head shoulder press:
20 reps, 7.5kg
20 reps, 7.5kg
18 reps, 10kg
15 reps, 12.5kg
14 reps, 12.5kg
500m rowing machine (Ben's sudden suggestion)
Front raise (dumbells):
25reps 5kg
25reps 5kg
20reps 7.5kg
18reps 10kg
15reps 10kg
Side raise (dumbells):
12 reps 5kg
12 reps 5kg
12 reps 5kg
12 reps 5kg
12 reps 5kg
Shrugs:
20 reps, 17.5kg
20 reps, 17.5kg
18 reps, 20kg
15 reps, 20kg
15 reps, 20kg
Not too bad aches today, but can still feel the effects.
During the second half of the wts, the canoiests came down from the track to do wts. Managed to ask Xue Li about sat's training, and in turn got Samantha's number to call after training.
Glugged down a pack of nutrisoy after training and called Samantha in the bus. No reply. Later I got a sms saying asking who I was and saying that her handphone has low batt.
We got busy smssing and I'm to go down for their land training today for some trial I think. Shouldn't be a problem... and Sat's sea training should be fine... I think. Patrick hasn't gone through H and T rescues yet, so if I cap I may have to tow all the way back >_<
Sam said that she'll be teaching me some rowing techniques today. Cool. I wonder if all the canoeists in school use the same sort of stroke or something. I mean... sure, for t2 or doubles you two have to coordinate, but what if you want to experiment with some new strokes? The strokes which I saw them do for drills are pretty different from the stroke that I'm sort of doing from one of the JCs. I wonder.... well, I'll just find out today I guess.
Couldn't sleep again last night, I tossed and turned in bed for about 1 hour again, too excited about today's training with the canoeists. Wondering what they do, how different it is from dragon boat, etc. Then wondering about training days... how am I going to balance studies with both dragon boat training and canoeing training once project terms starts - along with Piano Ensem's concerts ... I should be able to cope with attachment now.
Oh yeah, Samantha is interested in joining the Piano Ensemble, and she's like a grade 8'er, Woo. Another all rounder?
Next Semester I'll be taking= Piano Ensemble + Dragon boat + Canoieng >_< Woo... we shall see how powerful my time management can be.
After much discussion with Stephen, we kicked out some exercises from our last shoulder routine and put in shrugs at the end. Yesterday's focal muscle group - shoulder + treps.
Will start benchmarking from today.
Behind head shoulder press:
20 reps, 7.5kg
20 reps, 7.5kg
18 reps, 10kg
15 reps, 12.5kg
14 reps, 12.5kg
500m rowing machine (Ben's sudden suggestion)
Front raise (dumbells):
25reps 5kg
25reps 5kg
20reps 7.5kg
18reps 10kg
15reps 10kg
Side raise (dumbells):
12 reps 5kg
12 reps 5kg
12 reps 5kg
12 reps 5kg
12 reps 5kg
Shrugs:
20 reps, 17.5kg
20 reps, 17.5kg
18 reps, 20kg
15 reps, 20kg
15 reps, 20kg
Not too bad aches today, but can still feel the effects.
During the second half of the wts, the canoiests came down from the track to do wts. Managed to ask Xue Li about sat's training, and in turn got Samantha's number to call after training.
Glugged down a pack of nutrisoy after training and called Samantha in the bus. No reply. Later I got a sms saying asking who I was and saying that her handphone has low batt.
We got busy smssing and I'm to go down for their land training today for some trial I think. Shouldn't be a problem... and Sat's sea training should be fine... I think. Patrick hasn't gone through H and T rescues yet, so if I cap I may have to tow all the way back >_<
Sam said that she'll be teaching me some rowing techniques today. Cool. I wonder if all the canoeists in school use the same sort of stroke or something. I mean... sure, for t2 or doubles you two have to coordinate, but what if you want to experiment with some new strokes? The strokes which I saw them do for drills are pretty different from the stroke that I'm sort of doing from one of the JCs. I wonder.... well, I'll just find out today I guess.
Couldn't sleep again last night, I tossed and turned in bed for about 1 hour again, too excited about today's training with the canoeists. Wondering what they do, how different it is from dragon boat, etc. Then wondering about training days... how am I going to balance studies with both dragon boat training and canoeing training once project terms starts - along with Piano Ensem's concerts ... I should be able to cope with attachment now.
Oh yeah, Samantha is interested in joining the Piano Ensemble, and she's like a grade 8'er, Woo. Another all rounder?
Next Semester I'll be taking= Piano Ensemble + Dragon boat + Canoieng >_< Woo... we shall see how powerful my time management can be.
Monday, June 30, 2003
Yesterday's 1 star canoeing/kayaking course was damn fun.
Thought I was going to be late, but ended up being the first one at kallang MRT. Waited around, Jon tan came, then Da Wei. We waited till ilke 8:40am, then decided to go over to SDBA first. Jonny called right when we were about to leave - bugger was going to be late. So we picked up Dean and Jessica and went over first.
Waited there even longer for Jonny to arrive, then we took out the t1s. Then Patrick, our instructor came, and we had to check some particulars for our certs, and we waited for Ivan who had the key to the locker for the livejacks and paddles.
It started to drizzle, then pour right when we were about to go down. So cold! We brought the t1s down one by one, then got in. Helped some of the girls and guys get in, then it was my turn.
Wow, I was in a canoe! Patrick had briefed us earlier on holding of the paddle and paddling so adventurous me decided to take a few strokes out. To my horror, I capsized in the first 10 seconds of my life in the t1, going down with a loud "aaargh!". Patrick was like "oh boy that was fast" >_<.
I towed the capsized canoe back to the jetty... felt like I was doing life-saving to a boat, and tried to clamber on the tyre and mnaged to get one leg on the platform then claw myself up, much to the amusement of a nearby womens dragon boat team.
Patrick was like "Well, you've about finished the capsize drill and towing already". Heh. Went down down again and paddled out a little to Mellisa, where we used each other for support.
Was really scared of capsizing again after that, due to the bleeding lashes on my legs caused by the cap, but managed to get over to the beach. After a while, I managed to get the feel of the boat, and was going really fast! Did some pacing with the rest of the guys and ended up coming out first, even beating those who had kayaked before for obs or whatnot. Muahahahaha.
Got so excited about winning the second pacing with thomas that when I turned back to laugh at him, I lost balance and cap'd. Much to his amusement of course. Ugh... a couple more lashes to the side.
I guess two years of dragon boat rowing and watching those canoeists come and go helped abit. Anyway, sweet retribution was served when we were trying this weird paddle drill to prevent ourselves from capsizing, then Thomas tried to correct me, saying "Oi Reuben, not like that, 90 degrees" *Splosh* he cap'd. I shall forever remind him of that event to amuse myself.
Was speeding around back and forth in between stroke practices, visualizing how I saw the canoeists paddle and matching the mental image into my stroke. Legs felt really uncomfortable, though. Probably due to the 5 X 15-20 quads and 5 X 15-20 hamstring exercises on the legs machine in the school weights room. Paining, paining. Then it didn't help that you had to open your legs a little and have your knees and legs push against the inside of the boat for better support for "touring kayaking" - right in the area where I had suffered the lashes from the capsizes. Learned from Patrick that in competitive kayaking your knees rest together instead of spread out inside. Balance was a little tricker like that, and leg muscles still hurt though.
Turns out Patrick is the school's canoeing coach too. I was wondering what he meant when he asked me if I was free next saturday morning. Heh, that's when the canoeists train. I'm really keen, though. Asked Ivan if I could come on Saturday for their training, and he said he'll ask Sharon (canoeing cap) to get back to me. Patrick said my build is good for kayaking too.
Thinking about it, I wonder if God has a sense of humour. Few weeks back, I was nominated for cap of the dragon boat team. Jeremy and Jonny got the wining votes for the posts. That, I can agree on. Due to my knee injury, I couldn't lead the team for running, and I want that aspect of leadership for the team - something I couldn't give. But now that I don't have a post, I can hop over to the canoeists for a while to pursue my interest. This means that I may have to miss a few dragon boat trainings for canoe training. Not sure exactly how I'm going to be "attached" there, by ivan for training, but I'm quite positive about it. *sigh* Why don't the watersports clubs just merge >_<
Thought I was going to be late, but ended up being the first one at kallang MRT. Waited around, Jon tan came, then Da Wei. We waited till ilke 8:40am, then decided to go over to SDBA first. Jonny called right when we were about to leave - bugger was going to be late. So we picked up Dean and Jessica and went over first.
Waited there even longer for Jonny to arrive, then we took out the t1s. Then Patrick, our instructor came, and we had to check some particulars for our certs, and we waited for Ivan who had the key to the locker for the livejacks and paddles.
It started to drizzle, then pour right when we were about to go down. So cold! We brought the t1s down one by one, then got in. Helped some of the girls and guys get in, then it was my turn.
Wow, I was in a canoe! Patrick had briefed us earlier on holding of the paddle and paddling so adventurous me decided to take a few strokes out. To my horror, I capsized in the first 10 seconds of my life in the t1, going down with a loud "aaargh!". Patrick was like "oh boy that was fast" >_<.
I towed the capsized canoe back to the jetty... felt like I was doing life-saving to a boat, and tried to clamber on the tyre and mnaged to get one leg on the platform then claw myself up, much to the amusement of a nearby womens dragon boat team.
Patrick was like "Well, you've about finished the capsize drill and towing already". Heh. Went down down again and paddled out a little to Mellisa, where we used each other for support.
Was really scared of capsizing again after that, due to the bleeding lashes on my legs caused by the cap, but managed to get over to the beach. After a while, I managed to get the feel of the boat, and was going really fast! Did some pacing with the rest of the guys and ended up coming out first, even beating those who had kayaked before for obs or whatnot. Muahahahaha.
Got so excited about winning the second pacing with thomas that when I turned back to laugh at him, I lost balance and cap'd. Much to his amusement of course. Ugh... a couple more lashes to the side.
I guess two years of dragon boat rowing and watching those canoeists come and go helped abit. Anyway, sweet retribution was served when we were trying this weird paddle drill to prevent ourselves from capsizing, then Thomas tried to correct me, saying "Oi Reuben, not like that, 90 degrees" *Splosh* he cap'd. I shall forever remind him of that event to amuse myself.
Was speeding around back and forth in between stroke practices, visualizing how I saw the canoeists paddle and matching the mental image into my stroke. Legs felt really uncomfortable, though. Probably due to the 5 X 15-20 quads and 5 X 15-20 hamstring exercises on the legs machine in the school weights room. Paining, paining. Then it didn't help that you had to open your legs a little and have your knees and legs push against the inside of the boat for better support for "touring kayaking" - right in the area where I had suffered the lashes from the capsizes. Learned from Patrick that in competitive kayaking your knees rest together instead of spread out inside. Balance was a little tricker like that, and leg muscles still hurt though.
Turns out Patrick is the school's canoeing coach too. I was wondering what he meant when he asked me if I was free next saturday morning. Heh, that's when the canoeists train. I'm really keen, though. Asked Ivan if I could come on Saturday for their training, and he said he'll ask Sharon (canoeing cap) to get back to me. Patrick said my build is good for kayaking too.
Thinking about it, I wonder if God has a sense of humour. Few weeks back, I was nominated for cap of the dragon boat team. Jeremy and Jonny got the wining votes for the posts. That, I can agree on. Due to my knee injury, I couldn't lead the team for running, and I want that aspect of leadership for the team - something I couldn't give. But now that I don't have a post, I can hop over to the canoeists for a while to pursue my interest. This means that I may have to miss a few dragon boat trainings for canoe training. Not sure exactly how I'm going to be "attached" there, by ivan for training, but I'm quite positive about it. *sigh* Why don't the watersports clubs just merge >_<
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