whacky weekend

the title is actually quite inaccurate. what i did was not whacky, but it was madness.

sat morning i went to join coach david at east coast for the adination run. cycled down to his house at marine drive (right next to my old house!) about 6km to putmy bike at his place, then met up with a friend of his before heading down to the meeting point at east coast. met the rest of the running group, i felt so young and noob there. i was joining the 16km group today, so the plan was to run from the mac's all the way to past nsrcc and then turn back. the run was quite comfortable for me, though i ended up leading the group by quite a bit. i hit nsrcc and then went a bit extra when i took a turn at the U-turn point. i think that added at least another half a km. on the way i saw aunty sarah and uncle kian seng (cheryl's parents), uncle david (sam's dad) and uncle owen (m. lee and bryan's dad). was good to see some of my church peeps running!

i felt quite happy on the run, as i got to see the sun rise, so i was smiling the whole way. quite a no. of people was wondering who this grinning idiot was. hahaha!

after i finished, we went to get a bit of drinks from the 7-11 and then headed back to coach's place to get my bike and i cycled back home.

i rested till 1, then went to swim at tampines. did the 3 sets of ( 800m plus 4x50m) again. was quite shagged after that.

at night i went to join the YA at NACLI near NUS for the weekend away program. after a good night session, i hit the sack. too tired to play settlers.......

woke up at 630, did a light run back to hall to do some pull ups and core. then i took a bus back to NACLI for the last session, which unfortunately i was nodding off at. sigh... after that we checked out and had lunch, then just, kim and i headed to khatib to pay paint ball! it was damn fun!!! got to shoot people like mad. i only suffered 2 shots, while inflicting much pain(t) to the others! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!

headed home after that. due to a sudden moment of pigging out i had 2 ice cream cones, i resolved to extend my planned 2 loops of coastal ride to 3. the first loop felt good, then the second loop i almost wanted to give up... was feeling so tired, but i pulled myself to finish off the third. it was then i witnessed a group of riders, where the second last rider suddenly just crashed. the rider behind him hit the guys bike and flew also. it was quite bad, gd thing they had friends who stopped to help them both.

even though this sounds mean, but i cant help but think that i used to be like that. so today i gained 2 skills:
- 3 loops solo coastal
- watching-people-crash-instead-of crashing-self

total mileage today, 101km!

this week's training:
mon: bi swim total mileage 4km
tue: morning 5km run, evening 15.5km run
wed: can't remember
thurs: morning bike trainer intervals 1 min sprint 30s wasy
fri: ippt!
sat: 16km run, 3 km swim
sun: morning light run, pullups and core, afternoon 101km bike

PS: on an end note, i'll be doing the sundown 42k as a training this saturday! thanks ex-XO for the slot!