6th Sept 2009 Sunday - My 7th Sea swim with YF; rain marred my brick training

My last sea swim which was the 6th, on 23rd Aug.

We started at 8.30am because of rain, big crowd today. No sea swim intro; so all started the sea swim together. Only one small loop which was about 250m.

1st set - 2 loops warm up
2nd set - 3 loops CCW - 16min (750m)
3rd set 3 loops CW - 15.30min (750m)

Coach reminded us to practice sighting, bilateral breathing, 4 stroke breathing, do some breath stroke, back stroke, even butterfly if one likes but not quite possible I thought, understand current direction. Wow too many things to focus; so I sticked to my easy to moderate swim and practice more sighting with front crawl; and practice a little bit on bilateral breathing.

The next practice, beach start. It was to run to the sea and as soon as the water reached knee level, made a dive and sped off as fast as we could to break away from other triathletes and made quick left turn and stayed in the front. I think this is tough for triathletes who are not very strong in swimming.

After the swim, we had Joel, our Singapore Youth Triathlete to demonstrate T1. Amazingly he could do T1 not more than 6 sec by putting on his bike shoe which was attached on the pedal while cycling, and he did it so smoothly and effortlessly. This was something we need a lot of practice; I would probably still stick to the traditional type. hahaha! Instead of of 6 sec, I might end up not even able to continue the race..........., wiser to keep to the basic at this point in time I guessed...!!

I was planning to do a brick training today; cycle 40km and then run 10km as last training for the next sunday Tri factor race. Alas the periodic rain marred my brick training. Since the weather was so uncompromising and unpredictable, I decided to proceed to collect my Tri Factor race kit and had Breakfast with Lucille and Deus at McD at Admiralty MRT.

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Quite a disappointing Sunday, though.....!!!
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