The wet and slippery day caused many riders/runners out there to abort their training plan. And yours truly me, had such a good Talk-Cock-Sing-Song (TCSS), laugh till cry session at brokie's house the day before, overslept and woke up pretty late.

I ended up in the gym and had the most moring workout in life. Alone spinning in the class for an hour with no music, no magazine, nothing!! Followed by yet another boring treaddy.....Lazed around for a while and decided to do a 'marathon'. Ya...a movie marathon!!!

I'm such an addict to HK TVB drama. That's one of those things that can make me stay awake beyond my sleeping hours. Yesterday itself was considered mild. I spent 6.5 hours on it :)

To cut the story short, AHM went out pretty ok, not a fantastic awesome run to me. Nothing to complain about except my pure laziness. Yeah… not putting in effort to an extent that I surprise myself and JC with a PW record…LOL!!!!!! Oh well… doesn’t matter….

So the day after AHM, was rather tense all over…hmm…must be not enough post run stretch. I wasn’t on a good appetite and was pretty quite in the office, I decided to jump to the pool during lunch to get some ‘aqua therapy’. Oh man!! It works wonders. 30mins and I’m all ‘loosen’ up!! Then again, doing a lunch swim did causes some inconveniences to me, especially to female I reckon.

First, the swim cap will NOT keep my hair dry. It will still be damp. Gotta spent extra time to tame the mess after that.
Second, the sun is really doing me no justice. I had ugly tanned line on the face. Forehead itself ended up having 2 shade because top half is covered by swim cap. Not forgetting the goggles mark. Not a problem if it’s a non-working day.
Next, the make-up.
Finally, rule of the thumb for lunch swim, must apply sun block to the already ‘not-so-young-and-beautiful-skin’ of moi…..

Hmm….. need to evaluate again if I shd just stick to lunch gym instead.

And then it was spin class at night. Something is terribly wrong with me... I sweat a bucket!! Definitely not the usual me having sweat dripping out non-stop throughout. Luv it though…Ram was such a motivator. The class only last about 50min instead of the usual 60min but it was just awesome! Yet another real good detox session…..! Maybe too much of an endorphin kick…I couldn’t sleep well the entire night………

So miserable now!!! Because why?? Because I'm deprived of my afternoon nap. Making thing worst, it was raining pretty heavy...perfect hour for a nap. I need to endure....... I have to, else I'll surely suffer later on.

Having to wake up at 3am tomorrow would means that I'll have to sleep real early tonight. Well, I can choose not too but....I really dun wanna be a walking zombie tomorrow at the padang. Tomorrow will be my 2nd AHM, the last one being 2 years ago. Theoritically, I should be able to run better than what I can 2 years ago but but but....anything can happen. When something goes wrong, everything will go wrong. So, I pray that we all will have a good time, good weather, good and enjoyable run, all soaking well into the atmosphere....

Being AHM week, (actually trying to come out with excuses), I had very low run mileage - not that it's high on non-ahm week in the first place. Tues CBD was a short, sharp and sweet. Some deem as easy easy. Controlled hard should be the right word for me. Since I won't be running that much this week, I might as well put in some decent effort for a short workaround. Swim session is the highlight of the week. 3 session in total.

Coach immediately summon his instruction to me before I even get a chance to warm up.

10 x 50m fist stroke - can't stop feeling like a superman
10 x 50m pull buoy - doesn't know how am I supposed to feel using a pull buoy. what's the purpose of this. Wobbly, couldn't get myself stabilized. Gotta ask Benson to explain a little to me..haha..coach too busy giving instruction to the rest. It took me close to 6 laps before I can 'sail' smoothly with it. Ahh.......now I know the purpose of it..haha.....
1 x 300m slow and steady
6 x 200m 10sec rest

A bit overwhelmed at the end of the session. Coach didn't give any negative remark, so I take it as a good sign..........IF and only IF....I can put all this into good use during open water....... I wish, I hope, I pray...........

Everything was a bit out of the norm today. For some reason, body clock automatically wake up at 4am, not feeling tired, not wanting to laze around the bed. Feeling pretty fresh indeed. Got an sms to wake me up at 430am but I'm almost ready to leave home.

Reached Casuarina at 515, I'm all prepared for the 60-65k ride. That will be my longest ride in my entire life IF I succeed and be back in 1 piece. Ya, mentally prepared for slopes, not sure about the legs though...5.35, the 4 of us started our journey. I think I'm doing pretty ok on flats but not too well on the slopes for sure. First half was ok, second half...haha....I dropped till........**drum roll*** 9kmph on uphill...LOL!!!! Legs need a lot more power x 100 siah!!! The downslope did gave me some real shiokness of 42kmph though.

Anyway, the suaku me, never been to those places that we rode past this morning. Secluded, ulu, remote area. I can't think of any reason why would I want to go to such places apart from biking. Let me recall...Mandai, Kranji, Neo Tiew, Lim Chu Kang.... hmm...around that vicinity..forgotten!

Back to Casurina abt 830, I'm contented to have completed the distance (cheaptrill I know). And the best thing, I'm not as phobic as before riding on roads...Yay!! And the legs... still doing well, not as bad as I thought. But again..I must say.... the slopes.....is really 'something' :) Good company good ride.....

After taking 1 day off recovering from Osim drainage, things kick start again as per norm with CBD run, 'unintended' pump after 1 month of absense, swim and more swim. Already going for lighter weight so that i won't ache too much for swim class the following day, I still ended up pretty sore and jelly on the legs which is quite a nice feeling..haha..But thankfully...my arms is still good.

Swim menu was smack right on my face after warm up laps. 5 x 400m with 20sec rest. So 'kind' of coach to give that 20sec rest. Hardly enough for me to take 5 deep breathe. Talking abt fellow students in the class, I wonder how one can boast about completing an ironman twice and going for the third, YET never fails to complain that coach didn't give enough time to rest, training sets is too long, too shiong, always end up with "OMG" after every 2-3 laps. Seeing from top to bottom, left right upside down, couldn't help it but really can't see a single ironman spirit in him/her. Oh well...should not judge a book by its look.....Nevermind.....

Since this morning, I think I’ve been asked at least 3 times if not 4 times on how was my Osim Sprint.

So before I need to retype it over and over in msn, I shall just pen it down here.

Swim – 750m
I thought this should not be that difficult considering the amount of time I spent in the water in recent months. But regardless of what, you will never get too prepared for an open water swim. Anything can happen, things that can’t be trained – these…can only be reacted based on experience, which obviously, I don’t have much of it :)

So there I go, ‘jumping’ into the crashing waves together with ~100 more ladies in our waves. Choppy big waves is all I see. Thankfully, I wasn’t panicking. Not much of a chance to do front crawl, I thought I can switch to that after the first turning when we’re swimming parallel to the shore. How wrong can that be!! The sea condition never gets calmer. Making thing worst, those men that starts 5 mins later is starting to catch up. These aggressive men!! Irritating!! I got whack on the leg, on the head!!! Tried switching to front crawl to speed up a little, the waves smack right on my face. And all I could see is the big waves coming towards me and the sky. Couldn’t tell if I’m moving, couldn’t tell if I’m heading to the right direction. Gave up…back to breast stroke. Oh…and did I mentioned I spent so much energy in BS not only to swim but to kick away those ppl behind trying to ‘grab’ my legs! Ya..I still think I’m not garang enough. Next time I will…**hmph***

What was I thinking throughout the swim: luckily never sign up for OD distance, get out of the swim asap!

Bike – 20km
Way too much energy used up unnecessarily during swim which was totally unexpected. Half sianzz…. Started the bike slowly to recompose myself..Got a little better on the 2nd and 3rd loop. Bike leg not as cramped as I thought it would be. But the mind is simply no longer into competitive mode. Really a bit drained from the swim. Can’t imagine it is tougher than a 40 laps in pool. Just strolling along to finish the 3 loops.

Run – 5km
Disastrous. Toughest, slowest 5km run I’ve ever run. Couldn’t find the legs. Heavy legs, muscles is stiff!! Run, jog, walk and struggle to the finish.

First Sprint distance…..Completed

***Oh...In actual fact... I actually broke the thumb of rule of not to try anything new on race day :) I had the saddle changed and race day was the first time using it. Haha..I'm prepared for any outcome. It turned out to be quite well...still need a bit more time in getting used to it but overall feeling is so much better than the previous one :)