December 22, 2003

  • Entering the beginning of overtraining phase.  So feeling a bit moody, edgy and likely to bite off people's head.  Will stop after tomorrow morning's cycle.  Was out for swim yesterday evening and rather pissed at the people swimming across, plus one idiot who kept moving between lanes - he was at 5 so I swam at 4, then he somehow moved across so I moved to 3 and by the time he came over to lane 3, and stopped there, I just waited behind him and asked which lane he was using.  He mumbled something so I told him to stick to lane 3 and 4 and I will use lane 2.  Dunno wad's wrong.  Me and another lady swimmer who came later could even share lane 2 (via the half lanes) with no problems.  Also kinda got a bit put off after the 5th time I got cutoff by kids learning how to swim so I got out and asked the guys what time lesson ends and apparently it's not under their control, so I thanked them and went over to the instructor and asked what time HE was ending.  Well, he was pretty apologetic about it, and got the kids swimming along the flow after that.


    One of the guards was apparently eyeing me, dunno for wad.  Maybe coz I was using a new style; breaststroke, then kick, then instead of pure gliding, I used to dolphin style of front crawl to get the distance in.  At first I thought it really pushed my speed up a lot.  Later I tried back the same method with pure glide and still got the speed.


    Turns out my kick and glide are getting more efficient than the last time.  I'm becoming a fish!  Or rather turtle, because I'm using breaststroke.


    The new method I'm using uses a bit too much oxygen and I tend to go into oxygen-debt after using it too much.  Will continue using it to train but not for the full long distance tri.  It will come in useful when I am doing the swim trials in the pool, where I kick off strongly, then continue dolphin kick and come up quite a distance from the start with the glide.  I think my oxygen-debt when using front crawl is due to the kicking also because my upper body doesn't seem to give that problem.


    Heading off for the pool again this evening to be trained by Adrian Mok, then back home and pick up stuffs for tomorrow cycling with Cycleworx people.


    On a separate note... this is Desmond Lee, top Junior cyclist and the only Singaporean to go faster than me in Osim Tri on the bike
    http://sehsuan.clubsnap.org/saca-road-06-2003/10-prize-presentation/images/IMG_2626.jpg
    Wah lan oei!!!!  Look at those leg muscles!!!!  They don't call him Terminator for nothing.

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