week in recap

the past week has been mugging, exams, and base trainings. after raw duathlon last sunday, which was a pangkang race for me but still turned out to be super shiong and took alot out of me. so i took a two day enforced rest to let my body recover from the exertions of that day. not to mention to let me get in some concentrated mugging time.

wednesday i went back to training again with a 2km target swim to get back some of my strokes in preparation for tri-factor swim.

thursday morning i did track on my own, 5 by 1km intervals on 5 mins, which i averaged 3:40.

friday morning did half an hour of intense work on the trainer at home, before i went to school to chill in YIH with the peeps. evening was a relax easy long run with lala to a new route, pandan reservoir. thanks lala for intro-ing me to this beautiful scenic route! we did 16km!

sat brought my bike down to soon huat to service the long due "injuries" to it after that fateful SBS accident. SBS finally compensated me with an "undisclosed" sum (ask me yourself if u really want to know) so i finally could get some works done on it, as well as some upgrades. mark there suggested that i should get the ordu (top end bike from orbea) should i want to upgrade bike, after i said i might upgrade to an ora (2nd tier bike from orbea) next year. i just might, since it comes in red too! colour rider!

today sunday morning josh and i went for tri-factor swim! it was actually quite fun! 4 loops of 750m swim which totaled 3km. josh and i were in wave 1, away from the super swimmers such as scott ang and willie loo, or the ang mohs for the matter. as a result, i was actually in pole position all the way till the end of the 1st loop! (till the super swimmers caught up) so exciting! never been in the lead like this before! i finished with a respectable 7th placing with a time of 56 mins. ok lah, i suspect i could have done better since i slowed down a bit during the second and third loops after a maniac first loop. hahaha, but it was very fun! thanks josh for giving me a ride to and from sentosa!

then in the afternoon was the surprise birthday party for just (my BFFLF) and yao qi man. haha so fun! neither of them expected it at all! baked brownies for both of them, and we had pizza thanks to auntie irene.

did a 14km run when i reached home. earlier in the day mok had told me that i should be doing long runs rather than intervals for base training. if there's someone i should listen to for training advice, it's him!