Reality Bites

The onli reason I am blogging on the 2nd day of the Dragon Boat Festival was due to the fact that the 2 day event turned out to be a single day event for us. Did not make the semis for any of the events we took part. Failed miserably to reach our targets. This 800m competition proves to be a reality check for the team; I hope. We lack the endurance, strength & technique to compete with the REAL competitive teams. We were always neck to neck with the rest of the fields till the 600m mark. While the rest are ready to charge, we began to slow down. Haha. The last 200m is wat differentiates a good team from the leisure one.

I was really glad to see Xiao Pang so disappointed cuz it means she wants to be better. She was telling me tat she is also sian cuz she dun feel every1 is as disappointed as her. Haha. Told her it is their 1st race & now they noe the standard of the competitive teams so it is up to them how they want their future races to go. Win, lose by boat length or lose by no. of buoys?

The guys did ok but still not good enough. Not enough power to pull away while we were leading & not enough endurance to last the race. The truth is the better teams trained way harder than we did & they totally deserve to kick our ass. Really glad this race provides a reality check for the team. How well we want to do really depend on ourselves. No doubt we have fun during races but is the way we want the club to continue???