Swim lesson 7

"pitter patter ..pitter patter"
that's the only sound I heard nearing to 5pm . Frantically I check with stacy and fennel if they will be goin down to the makeup swim session.. "Yes", they said.. Maybe at first check with alex and he said he will be there.









Grab my stuff and headed down to the CAAB pool. Turn up alex will be late and so we started our own swim first. Later 2 other swimmer from tues class also came down. Glad that alex said my stroke has improved and so is the breathing. Yes all the ninja training paid off not in monies but in effort.

what I feel abt swim is you can't rush it. When u get it ..u get it.. Just practice more ..thats wat I say...

Monday Swim Session

Well since theres no lesson on monday due to the chinese new year and my instructor is at the Langkawi ironman competition. I headed down to meet up with the sgrunners (tiwazz, imd, bala, charis, aerosolcan, kops, babu, cheow) for a couple of laps at the clementi pool.

Babu , imd both just came back from langkawi ironman! babu looks like a charcoal but not for imd but congrats to them anyway. Stories of their trip was exchanged and boy it sures inspire me.

Had a great time interacting with them and spotting my problem not to mention trying out the paddle glove.

All the best to Kops for his Standard Charter Marathon at HK!

Updates this week

Short run on Sat evening around yishun about 25 mins. Did not recorded it on my Ipod this time round think i need to get a water proof armband for it.

Distance :5.22km
Timing : 25mins



















Followed by sunday swim at safra club with stazla , michiko, katrin and yukai. Katrin helped us corrected our strokes. And now i think my frontcrawl is more efficient with less head jerking up to breath.

Adirun - no go!

Did not go adirun due to my phelgm and cough problem. So drop by the store to purchase something. Got a adidas baggy 7 running short. Quite a decent climacool short with a back zipper pouch for my running gel and other nicknack's , formfitting too . Oh well hopefully can try it out this weekend.

Fahmy , stazla , SV, Lionel and Michiko, drop by for the run. And for me i din hang around there for long.

Sport purchases

Had been sick this couple of days during Lunar new year, Didn't really go out to visit relatives. Just once been to a friends place.
But i did got some more swim gear for my practice session at Champion sport store over at peninsular shopping center 5th floor. Its really quite a gem find. The stuff are over 20-30 percent cheaper then royal sporting house, thou the range aren't alot. but definitely good buy there.

















Pull buoy at 15 bucks (royal sporting $21) Kick board $18 ( royal sporting $22) googles $16 (royal sporting $19)
total saving - $13
Smile on my face - priceless

Updates this week

Not much run this week more like another slack week for me.. haha But i did
Swim on thursday give a few tips to my friend jon as he has been doing breaststroke all his life. Unfortunately he doesn't wear goggles to swim and thats a problem for him. But he did say that frontcrawl uses muscle that breaststroke does not, and he can feel the burning effect..

Chinese New Year is here again , and today after visiting friends i drop by the pool at clementi with M and did a few laps. Give some pointers and yup it helps!

Vday run : Simpang kiri park connector - sembawang beach

Since its Vday today decided to do a run at my place instead of the usual adirun location. (as i predicted that its will be a small crowd there).
Usual route but deviated slightly at the simpang kiri park connector when i notice a its low tide. So i head to the beach for a sandy run into sembawang park. At one stretch of the beach the expanse of the sea and beach mesmerise me. So i linger a little longer there. Couple of resturants there are preparing for the Vday dinners. With such a nice view what could be wrong.

Distance : 9.45km
Timing : 53mins 02sec
Pace : 5.36min/km

Swim lesson 6

Another Swim Lesson at SMU pool or is it CCAB pool?
Me and june was the first to arrive at 7.15pm. Before long stazla and jamesoh joined in. Seems like they are caught up by work.

This time more practice then drill doing catchup. Still our weakness seems to be the breathing portion. Our heads seems to jerk up all the time. Disrupting the flow of the swim.

Anyway after swim me, june and jamesoh head to fong seng for the famous nasi lemak. Hmm that stretch of shop house has transformed to quite a 'holland v' look alike area. lotsa eatery has popped up.. hongkong diner, prata shop, wine shop, 7 eleven, computer games rental shop..etc

Run - Yishun Dam 8.09km

Did my so romantic little run at yishun dam today evening and what better way is to compile a photo montage with a romance theme to it. Enjoy the photos!






Distance : 8.09km
Timing : 44mins 25s
Pace : 5.29 mins/km

Swim - practice

Went to the pool for another frontcrawl practice session at safra yishun. And thats when i realised that the half of the pool was taken up by the Swim trial for the biathlon which would be coming up.

As for the swim, i felt much improvement thou staz say my arms is not lifted high enough. At least i can almost finish 50m lap without stopping but i do say one must have very good stamina and strong bicep.

Adirun - clarke quay- fort canning 9.2km

Been busy lately starting out my new online store so running was kinda left aside, Not to mention swim lesson and practices, I have also signed up for Spanish classes sometime end feb.

Now running has taken a back seat, wouldn't want to miss a session of adirun would i? Stazla, Sv, eddie, fahmy, cosmic, alvo, freddie, michiko, angeline turned up for todays evening run. The route was the fort-canning route so more or less everyone is familar. Well the lead agroup consist of myself, eddie, cosmic, freddie, stazla . Fahmy and angeline on the well mid speed range. while SV and michiko was the last group. Some how at fort-canning we lost SV group which later he called to say they are back at the shop.

Along boatquay we spotted some nice coupe like Ferrari, Mercedes and Lamborghini. I think theres some special events there. Also we can see the river hongbao event booth being setup.


After the run , had a short swim at the pool before changing up and meeting the gang for dinner at subway. Stazla was wanted to go to balaclava for a bottle of beer unfortunately not all wanted save myself haha. Bumped into my friend there which i have not seen for a long time oh well another time then.

Wow when i visited nikeplus.com site they have added a route map and distance calculator too but somehow i find that its not as accurate as that on google earth.

















Distance : 9.2km
Timing : 51mins 10sec
Pace : 5.34min/km

Swimming lesson - I got it

Good news- After weeks of struggle both myself and stazla manage to grasp the concept of frontcrawl. It was triumphant of a mega proportion ! It was out of the blue. The whole idea is to stick your face as close as you can to the arm. Look ahead when you are underwater. Of cause your arm should be relax.

Adirun - marina esplanade - kallang park 5.1km

Its one of those days when you suddenly felt unwell at the last min of the run. Had not been able to sleep the night before (accumulated only 4 hrs last night before) plus felt a little temperature increase. Nevertheless i still proceed with the adirun session. Lionel , eddie, michiko , fahmy , simon's friend and myself turned up for the run a small crowd.

This time round a shorter route was taken from esplanade park to kallang park and back. The weather was windy and cooling , partially due to the global warming ard the world. Eddie and Lionel pace ahead of the rest . For me couldn't keep up with them nose was sort of having discomfort . On a hind note . Lance armstrong made an anouncement on my nike plus telling me i ran the fastest pace record compare with my previous runs.

After the run we went for some drills on the pool at suntec. Water again was freezing and if thats not helping i had drank maybe a cupful of chlorine haha.. Frontcrawl is really tough to learn. Lionel gave some tip on the arms drill (hes taking the instructor course right now).

Oh well next practice is saturday! update again

Distance : 5.15km
Timing : 27mins 36sec
Pace : 5.21min/km