The months of June and July have certainly proved the start of the club's season to be an eventful one. In late June, 3 of our club's fine athletes represented Singapore University Team in the 2012 World University Triathlon Championships held at Yilan, Taipei. The 3 of them were non other than Waikit & Yanling who're both the club's Team captains, together with Eugene who's one of the more seasoned swimmers in our club. All of us were elated and excited to have their participation in this world class level collegiate race. It was definitely the biggest and closest to an ITU-level race the trio have ever participated. And for student athletes like us, this championships meant as big as representing the country for the Olympics. This race meant a great deal not only to the athletes but also to their fellow friends and members of the club whose hopes, promise and well wishes followed the athletes up to the world stage in Taiwan. Surely, all of us were more than proud to have members from our club race in an event of this scale, alongside elite athletes from other powerhouse countries. Albeit non of them won medals, their return was still a triumphant one as the experience itself was ever so rewarding to them. Here are some pictures!
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| Eugene finishing his swim |
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| Yanling's bike to run transition |
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| Waikit's splendid finish! |
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| Some of us welcoming their return! | | | | | | | |
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This whole World University Championships even seemed to raise a triathlon fever among SIM aquathletes as more of us were inspired and motivated to perform better not only in Aquathlon, but also in accomplishing triathlons. As a result, we went up to Port Dickson as a team to participate in the Port Dickson International Triathlon during the first week of July. Even though most of us were new to racing triathlons be it as individuals or as a relay team, it didn't daunt us the slightest bit. In fact, not only did most of us have a pretty smooth 'virgin race', we all had a good time together and it was an enjoyable trip for everyone. All of us returned home looking forward to the next time we could go up to Malaysia as a club to do triathlon races.
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| Heading up to Port Dickson! |
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| Waiting for race briefing to start.. |
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| Post race team picture! |
We also stepped up training starting this month as we begun our weekly brick trainings at Sentosa on Sunday mornings initiated by Coach Peter. He wished for us to improve not only on the swim and run segments, but also in transition, a big area all of us could work on.
Surely, it seems that we've started the season with a louder bang this year! And we're just beginning! (: we still have the CCA Recruitment drive which is happening in just a few days time, and lots of events coming up in the month of September to look forward to. Such as the Singapore Triathlon, Desaru Triathlon and not forgetting, SUniG Aquathlon 2012!! Busy days await us as the club prepares for a group of newly recruited members and gears up for these upcoming races! It will be an exciting third quarter of the year for SIM Aquathlon.
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