Sunday, March 18, 2007
today marks the end of the MR500 race, held at Seletar Reservoirrealli sucky for mecos i screwed up in the 1st race -- Mix Team Bit was a race with the guysthe guys were super fastand at the end, when they go for chargingthe boat was too jerky that i lost my balancethe coaxier, Edward, had to push me back with his knee to get me back into positionrealli sucky.cos the seniors standing on the shore watching dinno wad happenonce i reached shore, they were questioning, "Why did you stop halfway?"i just replied them they were too fast and i lost my balance.after that they didn't say anything much.Actually I did not feel that bad at first.It was until Li Si, our own female coaxier came to ask me whether I was scolded.It was then that it dawned on me that I've made a terrible mistakeby losing my balance, not to be able to carry onstarted to tear. haha. I know it's very maloo but I cant help it.couldn't face the team, as well as the guys team.really sad and embarassed.after that my captain, xiao hong, had to come and comfort mecos it was so obvious that im utterly disappointed by my performance after my talk with Li Siand i was isolating myselfshe said something about outsiders may not be able to understand the problems the rowers face when they're racingso they may over-react and say those words to you.i think my captain and vice-caps, especially ah hee, my coach is very nice to mefor the mix team finals, ah hee selected me to go down againthis time round its the same boat and the same position in the boatas if to make me go through the humiliating event again.but this time round, i tried to keep my body low, and to always lean my body forwardso that i will be less affected by the jerking when the boat goes into the final chargingit ended up to be a good race, i guess.cos i think we got third for that race. will have a medal i guess. **gladdin cock up the show.straight after that was the women's finalsi really went all outmy teammates also really went all outwe did better than yesterdayyesterday for the heats, the backpack couldn't hear the drummer's commands at allin the end, the midpack and the backpack people only have 1 single stroke rate all the wayif the race were to carry on for another 20m, we could have lost and become 2nd or 3rd.but todays' finals, we emerged fourth.cos the other boats were really very strongNUS was 1st, winning us by 8sec, after that was NTU canoeists, den RP dragonboatersthe last was the Bristishthe previous Breast Cancer Race, we couldn't even match up with the Britishand today, within just 3 months, we could beat themthat calls for some celebration, i guess.ah hee was satisfied with our results, and he was sure we will not come in lasthe's so zhun3!!!haha. we were super close to NUShe said we keep biting their starts, keep following them and in the end they didn't win us by a lotjust ard half to 3/4 boat's lengthwad a great news, considering they trained more than us, and even harderah hee says they trained too hard, that's why they underperformedbut its also an advantage cos this means that all of their fitness is already therethey just need to focus on their techniques and they'll pull away even further than usall in all, today was a memorable daywith good and bad things to be rememberedwill continue to improve and to perform better-end-
I love my world:D
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