Aching Arms!

Had such a tiring swim session yesterday... was not funny... my arms were aching by the time we got in to our 5th set of 200m... which is weird as i normally would be more then able to swim 200x5 , but somehow yesterday my arms did not want to move i blame it to the 2 days of wake boarding. Friday and Saturday that's more combine in the last yr altogether, but i must say it was good to be out at sea feeling the sea breeze socking in the atmosphere was the best part about it all.

Had a really sinful week last week as well, beer beer and more beer plus pork knuckle and all the works, not to say deep fried chicken wings with fires plus more beer. brup think i'm making up for the last time. Since i started training for tri's and shitz i turned my diet around a fair bit acutally. I can sit down watch my friends eat supper and i would not be eatting, for one that loves to eat lol.

Well, would be looking forward to interval training today, haven done any in like 5 months i'm so going to suffer, but somehow this sort of pain i enjoy.

In a long time!

Okie i know it's been awhile since i wrote here, well actually a month. Been kinda of busy and to add lazy hahahaha ..... Did the open water swim today. It's nice to go to an event where you just meet up with people you know doing it. Seems like whatever event you sign up for you will have the same friends doing it as well. Thanks to the spirit i take it. O should i say only triathletes are crazy people enough to sign up for event after event year round. Did the 3km swim today. Which was to be a 3 loop course. Only swam once last week after which i feel ill to the flu bug an was out for the rest of the week till yesterday. Actually even yesterday, i was still abit under it. But having signed up for it was going to do it. Just take it like a relax swim and plus all the people who have donated to the cause i could not let them down as well. Thanks to all those who donated!

Having been so hot and sunny for the last few days, i was half expecting that i would wake up to rain like every other sunday morning so far, but no when i got up this morning it was not raining. Dragged myself out of bed, checked if i was still sniffing from the cold which i was, but thought to myself that after the warm up it would go away. Anyway, after having not been able to do anything for the last 5 days i was really feeling the need to get some workout done. Funny how now adays if you don't do something for more then 2 days one starts to get a bit moody. I've asked a few people an they tend to agree with me. I guess it just does not feel the same body wise. Okie back to the swim. Drove down to F2 reached there about 7am. Meet up with some of the bskl people they were heading off to tuas today as changi coastal has gotten abit mess with all the road works now. So a smoother ride would be to the west. Go west life is peaceful there came to my mind today. Meet up with small circle, jerrywan and awhole lot of other trifam people who where doing the race. All of us were in high spirits. It's like a get together session. My wave was suppose to start at 745 but we did not start till like 810 i think.

POOOOO the horn sound an we were off. Me being in the first wave as the second wave was the second wave was the masters which means people over then 35. Decided to start off at the back of the pack as we all know if you are up front it's either you zoom ahead or be in caught in the human washing machine. SO i slowly made my way over taking people, got in to my stride of things. The first lap went by rather fast i say. All in all i avge about 20mins a km not to bad la. The second lap i was thinking to myself why why lol .. i guess this is where the mental part of it all comes in to play while you are in the middle of any long distance swim you are doing. Switched between breast stroke and free style. Came to the third loop the final last km of the swim, looked at my watch was a little behind the timing i gave myself. So for the last 500 meters or so i decided to up my pace abit. Surprisingly i still had alot in me. I guess all the monday swim sessions paid off. People that over took me now i was over taking them now. All in all it was a good swim. Just that when i got out of the water man no thanks to the salt water i kinda lost my taste buds for awhile and my throat was sore, but after a few bottles of water it was all back to normal again.

All in all i had a good work out after a long time. Tomorrow i can go to the pool an play water as i already did my mileage for the week *wink*

part 1 of many parts !

Okie now down to writing my experience of my very first ironman 70.3!

Surprisingly i manage to get some shut eye .. was not excited as i thought i was going to be funny. I guess all the waiting for the actual day to come i was more burnt out then anything. Got out of bed at about 5am ... check my stuff for the last time as i did not want to forget anything.... got out of the doors at about 520... manage to hope on to a cab by 530 ... some how the cab uncle seemed more excited then me .. zooming pass 2 d lights speeding all the way... an i sure he has no idea what the hell was happening actually... got to F3 carpark by 545 thats how fast cabby was going lol ... Got out of the cab started to walk to F2 which seem like miles away.. i thought i was walking fast enough but somehow there were ppl over taking me on the walk as well lol ...

Got to T1 area ... there was already along line of ppl getting their numbers printed on to their arms, but the line moved rather fast so in no time i got my criminal number printed on me : 603... went off to my bike to get everything ready .. helmet, no. tag and such ... there was this nagging feeling behinh my left knee cap ... thinking to myself that i can swim it off later and things would go fine ... but it did not .... when you get to my bike leg you will know why... chatted up with titi, yanglyn, ken , gary boy, dion, daryl .. and many more ppl from trifam..... the time seemed to pass very fast ... always happens i guess when you don't want something to start...

Walked our way over to the start line ... the pros were the first to go off then came the age groups ... my wave was to go off at 730... surprisingly enough dad manage to find me in the mass of ppl took a few photos of me .... i decided to start from the back an make my way to the front of the swim in the water ... did not want to get caught up in the washing machine up front .... okie thats all i have time ... till .. part 2 comes along .. laterr...... I AM IRONMAN 70.3 muahahaha .... sry can't help myself ...

D day + 1 !!!

some pics of me! will do a write up later on my experience .. too lazy now .. actually tried :)

D day -1 !!!

70.3 1 more day to go. Lots of emotions are growing through me right now. It's been 9 months since i sign up for the first half ironman to be held in asia. 9 months of training, friendship made, experience gained.

This week has been a roller coaster ride for me. But i can say the wait for one of the biggest challenges in my life is only a day away. Ready for it i am not sure, but my mind is set i will cross that finish line tomorrow by hook or by crook. Worst fear is letting myself down. As they say ironman is about the battle with in yourself and no one else.

I have to thank alot of people who have help me along the way. Mr coconut and the monday swim ppl Dion, ken.. etc .. with out you guys my swimming won't be where it is today and thanks for the friendship as well. To the ENR group, flower boys lalalala .. thanks for the tuesday night rides, bskl and the national training ... we still have alot more races to jump together.

Well, i just spent the whole morning watching ironman 2006. Nothing more inspirational to see team hoyt, sister madonna, blazeman and more finish the race. If these ppl can do it so can i. I'm still wondering how i'm going to react when i cross the finish line tomorrow, for that we shall see. ..

To everyone doing the race tomorrow god speed and have a fun good race!

Over the weekend !

burger anyone? Had a DIY burger session at my place on saturday ... The patties turned out good actually ... 3/4 beef,1/4 pork with some beer, bread crumbs, olivi oil, black pepper and rose mary. For toppings we had bacon, cheese, mushrooms, mustard, tomatos, onions, pickles etc ... On the side there were prawns, chipolatas and salad... So all in all i thing everyone was fed rather well i must say so myself....

Was suppose to ride in the morning .. but just as i got on me bike an headed out the door the rain came ... so i had to pull out my trusty bike trainer an spent a good 40 mins on it before i got bored of it once again. Even while was watch anime. Come to realise that i need to be out cycling or running .. these trainer, treadmill shittzzz no work for me as i get lazy after awhile .. out doors you need to get your ars back home no matter what. So that was all i pretty much did over the weekend actually in terms of training. I know such a slack.

Sunday, was looking forward to a day out in the sun taking photos. Was asked to help take photos for the WBA event "My first Com" to help new ppl or ppl who are afraid of taking part in competitions get a feel of it. Was a very low key event. Nice and small event so we had a chance to mix around with the fellow wakeboarders old and new. It was a good time of catching up, the morning was going fine till about lunch time when mother nature said it was about time for morther earth to get a shower again. The rain did not stop till about 5pm by that time we have to cancel the rest of the com. So what did we do next? The next best thing that we could do was drink. We ended up drinking from about lunch time which was 1pm all the way till about 6pm .. playing games like "big fish ... small fish" " no.7" have to say been awhile since we had this much of laughter and fun. Kind of brought back the good ole days. The link to my photos are here if any of you want to have a look. http://www.davidngiam.com/albums/0708-myfirstcomp-julian

Had KY's thanksyou bbq dinner that night as well... As from the pic above you can see ah soon having a go at the choco fondue. It was a good night catching up with peeps whom i have not in over a month... All in all i can say it was a wonderful day. Was suppose to play DOW with the guys but the bed was calling me so while waiting for all of them to come online .. the Z monster was winning the battle ... snore .... snore ..snore ...

13 of August !

okie it's been about a week over since the last I wrote here ...... been kinda lazy ... actually today is like the only day i have time to myself to get down to writing again ...

The whole of last week was kinad of busy for me ... had a seminar going from monday till wednesday ... boy did that take alot out of me ... but once again i have been re-assured that it is possible to make 100k a month and more once i get my ars down to doing a few things which would take about a month to get everything sorted out so i can get started ... but all in all it was a good seminar ... had my trainings after the talks so basically i was dead by the time i got home every night ...

ND HIM training was very good actually .... the weather threatened to cancel the training but we all went ahead with it at 7am in the morning ... due to the rain and such plus lighting we did not start swimming till about 8am .... took me about 36 mins to swim 2km .. which was good ... after which took our time at T1 ... we were off to a nice bliss weather for the most of our bike ride which took us from SCSC all the way till the tuas check point and back again ... i skipped faber hump as my ITB was really tight.... got back to SCSC went for about a 7km run. We finished at about 1.30pm .. Thanks EdKor and Mrs EdKor for the arrangements, food it was a wonderful day.

After that, Shwing and I had to rush down to SAC for auntie Dorren's 60th birthday party.... we arrived at 2pm kinda of late but we still made it ... was limpping abit as my knee hurt abit no thanks to my tight ITB.. the lunch was great ... Auntie Dorren is like a long lost mum to me since i was 15 yrs old ... well more like i'm the long lost son in some ways ... Thanks to her for being there always ...

Spent the rest of the day vegging till it was time to go to tiong bahru to watch born ultimate .. having only watch part 1 and not part 2 i was kind a lost but soon enough i caught up with the story ... on a whole it was a good show ....

O yes .... lastly .. got to add about my rich and shameless trip to the Jakarta ..... i'll attach some pics of the placed we stayed at. Did nothing at all .. was a total veg .... well okie la went to the spa ... watch dvd's , played poker .. pool ... all this was of cause done at the penthouse lalalala .... If you asked me what i saw of Jakarta i would tell you nothing much ... besides getting from the airport to the apartment hahahaha ... ..

O yes i finally got my new phone today as well E65 ... after about 4 months of procrastinating