"The three things ... Do you have it?"

If you do not recognize the above-mentioned phrase, please kindly refer to this so that you can brush up on your knowledge regarding Captain Obvious and his verbal capers.

Also, booshee has started his regular posts on the site so do come back regularly to support my crazed and optimistic tri-wannabe partner. He posted about his idol in his previous post and soon, i will be posting about mine- Faris Al-Sultan, better known in this circle as The Sultan of Sweat, or to us as a bastard speedo-wearing lovechild with tons of innate stamina and a balanced approach to all three disciplines of the sport.
In view of boosh's undying spirit and hunger, i do hope the fire will burn long and strong after the training sessions start.

Our home-brewed specialized training starts a week from now, and we should be hitting the gym and the waters on those days. We (Team Boofie) pinpointed swimming and core strength as our only major weaknesses for now and will look to shore them up pronto. There is a niggling suspicion that we will soon unearth more weaknesses in the days to come.

Actually, on the same day after the ketam experience, we went back to :

Part 1: Soak in the pool, cycled from the headquarters (my home) to east coast at night, chilled out there a bit, did bike skills with shane, vek and didi at the ultra-smooth concrete sports area and then headed onto changi village via coastal road. me and vek timed ourselves and completed coastal 7.03 *1 in about 11 mins 30 secs. I will have to get a cyclometer so as to chart the distance, speed and time more accurately.

Part 2: we headed up to the Cheers at changi village proper itself and Team Boofie hydrated themselves up for a casual 4.5 km run along the changi beach.

*1: approx. 7 km of black tarmac path flanking the uber boring changi coastal road.

team boofie checking their hi-tech equipment and pondering their fate before the ghetto-lon.

It took us about 28 - 30 mins approx. and we were rather satisfied with our first ghetto "bi-athlon sprint mini-version", not forgetting me and booshee had only 2-3 hrs sleep the night before and me, a ketam trip earlier that day.

I do understand that we cannot afford to do the 2-3 hr sleep and then train the next day kind of mentality once we start doing this seriously as it might result in middle-aged men "slippage" of particular body parts. we do not recover like young men anymore and more care should be taken to preserve our rather fragile bodies.

We at Team Boofie will have to work doubly hard to acquire the three things that Capt. Ade-Obvious reminded us about.

Ending on a high note, i give a shout out to shane and vek, who are volunteering their time/skill to head our elite Whats Up Buoyz? (WuBz) technical/logistics race-day team. We look forward to working with them and i see a great partnership forming.

shane looking particularly pleased and serene after he secured a place in the WuBz team.