Thursday, December 23, 2010
{ 6:19 PM }
Every moment spent training with your teammates is something to be cherished.
Why let complacency and other personal distractions step on our desire to focus
and train hard?
Have we forgotten our goals? Have we forgotten our reasons to remain as a
member of a competitive team sport? Did we choose to undergo months after
months of gruelling training just to achieve nothing worthy?
POL-ITE is about six months away and probably lesser. We don't actually have
a lot of time left because there is so much more that we can improve on and
effective progression obviously doesn't take place overnight.
As we all already know, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. If we don't
start to actively help one another now, or if just one person refuses to be helped,
the whole team's development will only stay stagnant. At the end of the day, a
stagnant team will only get trashed badly by others with a new and stronger
desire to win. So is that what we want? To lose without performing at the best
of our ability because we keep on denying the potential hidden deep within us?
A brand new year is approaching and it is a chance for us to start afresh with a
resolution to fight even harder for what we want. Let's stop taking any training
sessions for granted and commit ourselves to train hard, so that regret will always
be the last thing in our minds at the end of every race.
And don't ever forget that one is never alone in a real team.
-Yuying
Saturday, December 4, 2010
{ 11:45 PM }
Gimme, gimme more, gimme more, gimme gimme.
Or so at least that's what you're supposed to feel like whenever you gotta continue rowing. :)
It's now the beginning of a new season,
which means a new chance for all of us.
Fresh and inviting.
Let us all take this new chance that has been set in place for us and make full use of it.
No doubt the conditions are going to be higher and tougher on us,
no doubt the techniques are a little different,
no doubt the strategy's gonna chance,
no doubt we're all going to make it.
Everyone starts on the same line,
and everyone has the fair and equal chance to thwart this to their own advantage.
The ball is on our court- so let's make the best use of it.
To everyone out there,
alone is not in your dictionary.
Cast it out, for you have so many teammates that are in this with you.
We're all in the same boat. :)
Old habits die hard, yes, they certainly do.
If ex-convicts can overcome their itch to commit bad deeds and do good deeds for the next few phrases of their lives,
we can too.
Kicking off the bad habits we have aren't easy, but a journey of a million miles begin with one step.
Let us all make that step in the subsequent training,
and we will complete this journey as one.
Hearts on fire, souls with desire.
With many hugs, kisses and love,
Jackie.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
{ 5:50 PM }
remember that we have a Facebook group!
if you're not in it, let savie know
{ 2:40 AM }
we've had our break, its time to work smart for a new season.
nothing worthwhile comes easy and individually, we've got to step it up.
make that positive contribution to the team and help your team to improve,
help yourself improve at a good steady pace -
make each rep, each stroke during rowing sessions significant.
we've got approximately less than 40 official rowing sessions till SDBF 2011
- there's not much time - unexpected rain conditions, people falling ill etc
once we take 1 training session for granted, it'd set the tone for the rest of the season.
so let's do this and do this well -
remember your goals & our goals and never lose sight of it,
you're more than what you think you're made of,
push yourselves out of your comfort zone because
ALL GLORY COMES FROM DARING TO BEGIN. - savie
tests are coming up and let's work our DB force and
study smart and well to achieve the results we want,
we can do it!
