Conversing with Life

Singapore River Regatta 05 and more

Recently took part in the 23th Singapore River Regatta 2005. It's part of the yearly 4 dragonboat races, and the distance covered is 300m. (basically the whole length of boat quay)

Took part in the inter-constituency races, representing Punggol Central CSC. After all our weekly hard trainings, we were ready to show the fruits of our labour and erase the farce of the SAVA sprints.

That's me and Jason. I always 'lompang" his van to trainings. Thanks dude!This is a shot of the area under the UOB building near the big bird sculpture. Can you see the large crowd of participants! (NJC girls doing push-ups in the foreground, they are damn tough man)

Unfortunately, my camera's batteries died on me. This led to the subsequent dearth of photos.

Saw a multitude of teams there, from the schools to the foreign embassies to the private corporations to public sectors. Saw the NHG team, was trying to spot the Singhealth team but couldn't.

We finished 4th in a field of 6, coming in 1min 58secs. We were 6secs off 3rd place and 10secs off 1st place. Eunos CSC (1st placed) fielded a school team, which totally defeated the purpose of racing in a constituency (residents) race. (play cheat!)

Likely to be my last race. It was fun trying out dragonboating. The team commadarie is awesome but watersports are still not my forte. I'm looking forward to making a return to rock-climbing, especially after my half-marathon this weekend. My harness and shoes have collected enough dust.

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Half-marathon this Sunday. Still screwed. Managed a short run today, will do another slow paced relaxing run later in the week to loosen my joints and muscles. Schedule:

Mon: rest (after regatta race mah!)

Tues: abdominals

Wed: 6km run (80%)

Thurs: upper limbs

Fri: 3km run

Sat: skip, stretch, swim

Sun: RUN like the wind!

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The HOs in my ward are changing over tomorrow. Will miss them. They were a fun and great lot to be with. Learnt loads from them. Expecting the next few days to be more hectic.

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Keeping Plugging! (pun intended)

Wei Qiang converses @ 19:33