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 :)