Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings!

In March, we came to an end of the season together. With a blink of an eye its already June and we have had our first swim session for the new season. The turn out for the first training was a heartwarming sight! It was good having most of you back for training and encouraging seeing that all our fitness levels have not dropped very much! We hope to see the same number if not, more of you on the track this coming Wednesday for our run.

During yesterday's swim, Coach Peter was a bit creative with the swim sets. We did 5X100m X 4sets freestyle swim, with the 1st and 3rd sets having 10seconds rest between every 100m, and the 2nd and 4th sets having 30seconds rest in between. After which we did a 25m head up freestyle sprint followed by easy 25m swim X10 sets. Inclusive of warm ups, we did a total of 2.9k of swimming! Not bad for our first session in months! (:

As mentioned during debrief yesterday, a new season inevitably means new leadership. Apart from the Vice President and President for the club who are Dannel and myself respectively, we are very pleased to have with us Yan ling back as the Womens Team Captain, Wai kit as our new Mens Team Captain and Josephine who was formally introduced yesterday as the Secretary for the club. The five of us will form the new team of excos leading the club for this new season. Dannel and I are both very thankful to have the willingness of these 3 members in supporting us, because with Yan ling's experience in the scene of Aquathlon and Triathlon, and Wai kit's knowledge in physical training issues, together with Josephine's people skills, we believe we have the potential to be a strong team of Excos.

But excos alone cannot bring the club anywhere, the core of the club is still its members. Since SIM Aquathlon is filled with enthusiastic and passionate individuals, the Excos would definitely wish for involvement and contributions from the members. All of us in the club have the equal opportunity to make the difference in bringing the club to greater heights, and we will always welcome feedback. So please approach us if you have recommendations and suggestions on things you wish to see a change in or activities you would like to have for the new season, we will try to work something out! Together, we can make this coming season an exciting one. For now, let us train hard and look forward to racing in Port Dickson! (: