Good day, bad day. Dunno la. I think good day... but I lost my Timberland bag containing my cycling shoes and USPS shorts which I was going to bring to bike shop in case I cycle back from after picking up the bag, but instead left in the MRT after... okay never mind. Just as I was writing this, the Sembawang MRT station has called up and someone has returned my package. Going to collect later.
Full story is I was carrying three bags, including the Kinokuniya bag that I just went shopping with and realize I left it only after walking out of Bishan MRT station.
Good day because I got to swim today and I stuck to my lane despite some true idiots who just came into my lane after I have done 20 laps and what? Expect me to give way? With a longer reach and glide, I can afford to "poke" at the idiot while he struggles with his pull. I pity the other lady who was swimming in the lane next to me; she was doing constant pace long distance swimming also and another true idiot just took her lane four then she switched to lane two and later the three idiots who tried to take over my lanes took over hers but she was still going strong in one of the half-lanes, but I think she finally gave up. I really cannot believe the audicity of these true idiots who doesn't bother looking at whether anyone is already swimming on a particular lane and still expect people to give way to them.
And I'm faster, which also gives me the advantage of coming from behind then KICKING real hard. Apparently they do that in triathlons to idiots they wanna sabo. 
Then I went straight to gym and started Spinning class. Whoa! Felt the legs immediately and switched to lower gear, and even then had to stand up for the first few minutes. The quads are totally out of condition and too painful to cycle seated yet maintaining wattage, but standing on the same gearing I could maintain it comfortably, and then sit for a while then stand again. Overall I thought the swim-bike transition was quite bad but surprisingly I still managed a 160bpm heartrate for the 50mins on the bike. Will have to work more on this swim-bike transition.
As I was preparing to leave gym, a lady in front of me was filling up bottle (long time) then my turn to drink and then caught her eye and she smiled and I smiled and apparently it was the lady spinning next to me yesterday. I spoke to her about pulling because she was using really huge gearings - 50rpm while standing and 60rpm while seated - and yeap, we recognized each other today. No one else pushes gearings like me in spinning class so in a way, I'm kinda the only high gearing low cadence expert - which is frown upon coz they say such low cadence could spoil the knees and stuff. I find that's bullshit. High cadence actually spoils the knees, as I normally find after spinning 150rpms on the bike (that's 150 revolutions per min), which I only do during recovery days and wanna get in rounded-cycling form.
So anyway I was telling her about the "pull" when using high gears, and demonstrated to her and ...
Went to Kinokuniya and yesterday (bad day) had this idiot squating and reading book in front of section I was browsing. Couldn't find what I need but I thought he might be holding the book I wanted. True enough, today (good day) when I went back, I found exactly the book I needed for triathlon (Ironman Distance) and picked it up immediately.
Later going to meet the Xangarians. Hmm... should I bathe before I go? Haha. Kidding (in case anyone still reading this before the 4pm meetup).
90 laps in 1hr 30mins due to three things
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