Messed up with time

Disorientation of the sense of time sets in when the routine comes and goes weekly, and more often than not, attempts to summarise them only end up with fragements of memories that has no time or date stamp. That or otherwise, I only remember vaguely what happens, but not when did it happen.

Well ok there it goes, because most of it is just about training and more training, and the sessions comes so intertwined i cant remember when's when and how's how.
And since its more than mid way through NOvemeber, it just wont do to have nothing to write about as a keepsafe for looking back and this great part of time. Well essentially its just a time when we training the hardest, or do we , the longest, since time is just at its highest rate of abundance.

NO work for me this hols so far, not like the past few years when i squandered my year end breaks in the bookshop in exchange for some xtra cash. NOt that i'm looking forward to it, but this years means i wont get to have anything much to spent for personal indulgences.

Fine, maybe its still too early to say. Qian's got herself some time off to teach tuition for the quick buck. Time to rethink my stance?



Training .... Yes thats something that occupies the bulk of my brain and physical capacity. So far we are all training for Dec's ROund Ubin race. Right so its juz long dist and more long dist , having changed K2 partners countless times to try out., the otehr day. YEah since i prefereed to be back rower, relinquishing the task of having to control rudder, focussing more on the awareness of the situation and providing the bulk of the engine force.

Ceyong dumped me for korky , and thereafter left for OCIP so theres no really another way to reconcillate it in the short term . Not with Tzet and Nelson; our pairing just don't work out well . Jonn is too obseessed with Nic to agree to swap partner. RS would work if only he was straight, (oops and i do mean if he could keep the boat moving straight ) . GJ needs more practice with the K1 first ; no time to learn the harshness of long D drafts.

That leaves me no one left to pair with, and since i wasnt really looking forward to pay $20 to let the K1s win , i was contend in being left out of the Ubin race team for this once , focussing more in K1 until a suitable occasion. Till recently , coach was to put me up behind him so as to go the race as the second drafting K2 to go with Nic& Jonn ...

Which leads to today's training, quite slack , xept that i was a bit stressed with the thought of having coach as the partner. Fine provided it took him longer to warm up, as he claimed, so we took off easily for rounding the reservoir with Jack on the left and Jonn being in the LiangJin on the right, since Nic was sick.

A fine start, and easy forward, and worked out well. Maintaining at relatively low speeds of about 10 km/h according to the GPS speedometer on board jack's boat. and that was already quite slacky, Jack having the cheekiness to complain that it was too slow and slack despite Jonn and Wai Kit struggling to keep up .

Wai kit fell back right from the start, Jonn beat up to about 2.5 km before making a spectacular exit from the draft formation by capsizing.
After that, it became routine again. Long distance and being back rower, heh i would admit i was pretty much providing only brute force and little technical work save for the balance. Fine maybe thats my kind of contribution.




Open house came and went, and it wasnt as a blast as i was to think it might be . Maybe its just this time of the year and the lack of publicity. Whatever it was, the little bit of efforts we did for it, like the cam-whoring session at the pontoon after one of the trainings , so as to get some presentable pics to show off for.

And we tried to initiate Operation: Jonn Gan approach C**** , which pivotal point ended up on a bottle of half drank mineral water. OK fine inside joke... HAHA

Oh if I may add , GJ wasnt let off as well ...

Right ok thats as much as i would want to say. Will try to be a little more consistent and keep those promises made to myself . OK fine that wasnt necessasry