Singapore Biathlon 2012

SIM Aquathlon will be training for this upcoming race which is on the 3rd of March. We welcome SIM students to train with us for the race!

Thank you!

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!

It's almost the end of 2011 and we are already half way through our season! The month of December has been an interesting and fun filled month. We had our 1st ever camp held at SIM Ulu Pandan Campus, had our Xmas BBQ cum potluck celebration and supporting our friends at UOL pageant at Zouk!

During the camp, we got the opportunity to do dragon boat and pilates other than just plain swimming and running! It was great to see everyone enjoying themselves throughout the camp and we appreciate all who came for the camp. At Ben's place, we had delicious food contributed by everyone and we would like to thank the BBQers and people who contributed! We had a fun time doing our Xmas gift exchange.... snatching each other's gift... and Austin's $10 note was seriously OMG!

I believe that over the course of the season (especially the month of December), the club has come a lot closer. The camp, training sessions, cohesion, has bonded everyone and this has improved the culture of the club. Although there has been improvements... there are still areas to be further refined in order for the club to move to greater heights.

It is per say, that it was fate that brought us all together in this club, pursuing our individual interests (be it for healthy lifestyle or for excellence/perfection), and for the EXCO to lead all of you through the season. As much as we would love to improve the many aspects of the club, we are limited by the time that we have to accomplish all these task. Which means we are only able to do certain things in the club's adolescence phase. There will be different challenges and tasks faced at different stages.... and we believe that we managed them well and are on the right track!

We will be training for Singapore Biathlon 2012 which will fall on 3rd March 2012. That leaves us only 2 more months to train for it. Remember to train hard and safe towards the built up to the race! This will ensure that we remain injury-free and enjoy doing Aquathlon!

Let's turn up the heat and let the competition begin! :)

SIM Sports Award Night 2011

Congratulations to Team Aquathlon for clinching our first ever Team Merit Award!

It is a great honour that the Team's efforts and achievements are being recognised by SIM. Being only a 2 year old club, this is definitely a milestone to celebrate. Wei Hoong and I hope that the club will achieve greater heights in years to come. Congrats to all who got individual awards too! And to those who did not, don't fret! Your time will come soon.

Keep it up Aquathletes! The best is yet to be!

Mental Skills Workshop

We recently attended Mental Skills Workshop conducted by Mr Edgar Tham. We learnt about how important mental toughness was and how it is possible to fix our thoughts in order to achieve greater sporting heights. Setting of goals, playing mind tricks, cue words, self talk, imaginary etc..

Here are some of my views...

I believe SIM Aquathlon Team is definitely capable of achieving more with a positive attitude and enthusiasm while remaining calm, composed and humble at all times.

This is a sport with no age limit. Anyone is able to do this sport as long as they are able to swim and run. It does not matter if you can perform both disciplines well or just adequately.

The most important thing is to enjoy Aquathlon as a sport for life!

Into the monsoon season

Swim and run training has been constantly affected by the unpredictable weather these days. This can't be help as we are now in the year end monsoon season...

Training at UWC has been good so far. The whole swimming pool to ourselves, plenty of equipment for our training... really a great environment! On top of that, we are now saving our $1 entrance fees (some of you saved your $0.50... tsk tsk).

Our training sessions at the swimming pool are more focused now compared to the times at Clementi Swimming Complex. Program is written clearly on the white board which allows everyone to know what is the training program for the evening. Lesser talking during intervals are a good sign that everyone is getting more focused as well as putting in more effort during swim training.

A lot of last minute changes has been done prior to the start of run training lately due to the crazy weather. Coach and EXCO had to work out the contingency plan and at times make crucial judgement based on our intuition and experience. Safety is our number 1 priority! Therefore we hope that you guys understand and respect the decisions we make!

It is great to see many of you improve on your run with the constant training you have been putting in. Dannel, Josephine, Wai Chong, Mei Yan, just to name a few, are improving on your run. On a separate note, do train with enough sensibility and be safe.. don't be like me kena shin splint.. and in the end have to stop running and it will be another uphill task.

We also celebrated Ben's birthday after one of our training! We wish him a happy belated birthday once again!

All the best to those running marathon this weekend!

14th Nov Swim

Warm Up: 400m Drills

Main: 5 x 200m (4")

Free kick 10 x 50m (1"30)

Free sprints 10 x 50m

Warm Down 200m

Total: 2700m

16th Nov Run

Warm up : Ez run to Rifle Range Road.
Main : 400m x 8 with 400m downslope recovery.
Ez run back.
Total Mileage : approx 8.8km.

21st Nov Swim

Warm Up : FR 400m
Main : {100m (2') , 200 (4') } x 8
Kicks : 50m x 8 (FR and BR) (1'30)
Warm Down : 200m

23rd Nov Run

Indoor interval trainings.
2.4km Time Trial.
Total : 3400m

Brick Training and Run

800m swim and 5km run was done on our Monday's brick training. Yet another great turn out and we appreciate everyone's attending on a public holiday.

We tried running at the Rifle Range Road for our run training. It was a refreshing change from the usual route at the canal. It was a little dark but other than that, it was still a pretty good training!

Next week training will be a UWC. Look forward to seeing you guys!

Let's Push!

This week's training was pushed up a notch. We completed 3500m for swim and a 8km run training. Fun and games are now a popular item in our training these few weeks. I must say that the 8x50m sprints were really demanding and the 8km was done with such breeze!

Mini race will be coming up soon so I hope that all of you will be preparing to do your best for your team!

<<< Swim Training on 31st Oct 2011 >>>
Warm Up - 400m Drills.
Main - FR 150m x 10 (3')
FR Kick - 50m x 10 (1'30)
Endurance - FR 500m (50m fast and 500 slow)
Sprint - FR 50m x 8 (1'45)
Warm down - 200m
Total = 3500m

<<< Run Training on 2nd Nov 2011 >>>
Warm Up - 400m
Main - 600 x 10 (3'30) with 200m recovery walk or jog.
Touch rubgy.
Warm down.
Total : 8000m.