RACE DAY!!!!!

After 3 months of preparations, running under the scorching heat of the sun's, grueling and punishing push-ups and circuit trainings. Race day was finally here. I was nervous in the beginning but fortunately i have a very strong and supportive team. We trust each other's strength alot and know what we are here for. We went thru hell together, if the other teams wanted to beat us to the trophies is if they bleed while trying. The race plan was discuss again and mental exercises were carried out to psyche ourselves up.

I told myself, i needed to focus for this race. The only 3 things that i will concentrate on is the paddle, boat and my stroke. Nothing else matters, I dun care if the boat at my side is stronger and bigger in size or if they are faster than us in the beginning. The words that rattle in mind was "Pain Is Temporary, GLORY IS FOREVER."

Mastery of stroke was the only thing that was in our minds since the beginning of the season and not to mention coordination and teamwork. As a team, we are able to go further and faster. The heats was the first few events that started. The heats will determine which team stays and which team leaves.

Setting off Anchors

It was a grueling all out fight with the polytechnics and clubs for the heats. We were confident in winning the heats and in fact we got 1st place for the heats. Before every event we needed to warm up which included a jog and some boxing exercises to warm our body up.

Preparations

it was game time for us.

We had a total of 3 events and each was 800m sprint for every event we participated. There was times during the race when i know that i had only paddled 300 to 400m and i could feel that my body was giving up on me as i was panting heavily. But when i look at my teammates, i told myself since everybody was giving it their all and also everybody was going thru hell as well. I told myself "If all of us went to hell lets face it together and emerge STRONGER." I pulled with all my might and strength and in fact increase speed especially when the drums beat grew faster and it was nearing the finishing point.

However when the final came and we were pitted against the best in the business. We didn't get the top 3 places for 20 man crew however as darren says its not the result but the process that makes us stronger. First was NUS followed by NJC and third NTU. However the 10 man team got bronze in their events. Ultimately, we didnt go back empty handed. As Adrian our team manager puts it:ONE STROKE, ONE BEAT, ONE HEART.;)

3rd place(10man crew)

As Adrian our team manager puts it:ONE STROKE, ONE BEAT, ONE HEART.;)

P.S Please notify NUS that you copied their SLOGAN ya. I hope you don't get caught with copyright LAWS. LOLX