Om 11th

As my entry title suggests, I was ranked 11th for my 50m freestyle swimming today. Definitely i DUN feel 'proud' of my miserable ranking at 11th, neither do i feel paiseh or bad abt it , but i jus simply find the number '11' very appealing at the moment.

Coincidently, an old NUSBS fren (JS) was with me in the swim meet. He ranked slightly better than me, at 9th, representing his GRC. The most NBT thingie was tat a national swimmer (who din win any individual title but won a gold medal for relay at 2003 SEA games) was also in the competition. He was directly by my side at lane1, while i was lane 2. I wonder why the council allowed him to take part, since its written 'no national swimmer' allowed. I heard someone has already reported him though.

I got feedbacks from my GRC members that my plunging was weak. I was the last one who touched the water among all the 8 swimmers in my heat, but i did manage to chase up quite a bit during the dash. My timing was slightly over 30sec, din manage to break thru the 30sec mark like i used to before. My GRC members were rather disappointed, for they thot their ex-armour formation swimmer could bring back at least a bronze medal for them.. wahaha.. sorry to disappoint them.

In fact at the 3/4 mark, i began to feel the fatigue on my body. I began to lose my breaths and i couldnt keep my left arm stiff and firm. Tats why according to my dad, i fell back from the 2nd position all the way to the 5th during the last 1/4, with jus split seconds of difference in timings among my fellow competitors. But at the age of 26, i am already very satisfied with myself, for having to acheive a pretty decent swim competiting with the young fellows who were mostly in their early 20s. Yeah, i am the oldest amomg all, followed by JS.

Age is catching up. There are a lot of things that I cant do as well as before. I cannot run and swim as fast, and bowl as well as before. Sometimes, i thought i couldnt sing as well as before also. I feel my peak was at around the age of 20 to 21. After 21, u feel an obvious deteoriation in ur body functions, be it stamina, appetite and vibrance. Now i know why SAF categorises us in CAT X, CAT Y and CATZ1 & 2 for IPPT.