OSIM Singapore International Triathlon 2006 - TriathlonOlympic

Water was very choppy. Most of the time I was doing breast stroke as I was not able to swim properly in the choppy water. As much as possible i would switch back to front crawl. After the first lap of the swim, I realised that the HR monitor did not register my HR. Saw the timing, it was about 16mins. I was quite surprise with the timing. Was expecting myself to do worst. The 2nd wave was not better. Had a lot of difficulty swimming in the choppy sea.

The transition area is far from the beach. Jogged slowly once out of the water. Was rushing to put on my stuff and noticed that other participants were chit chatting away at the transition. Had a Powergel before I start my cycling phase.

Getting on the bike to start the bike race was clumsy. Could have improved on that with more practice.

The cycling leg was ok but it was hot and some parts of the cycling path is narrow. Felt that I could have done better with the cycling computer showing me the speed. Saw someone crashed on the 1st leg. Stop the bike to take Powergel after the 2nd leg. But feel that energy seems to run out half way through even though I had 2 Powergels already.

Practice more swim to bike transition. Do longer distance training and maintain a high bike cadence.

Transition was smoother this time.

Running was initially very slow. Took a while to pick up speed. The first leg was done in about 31mins. The U-turn was not very obvious. I almost rushed to the finishing line instead of doing a U-turn. I wanted to finished the run in less than 1 hour but I was not certain if I could do it. When I was almost reaching the finishing line, I heard them playing Shakira's Hip Don't Lie. I felt very hyper and decided to dash my last breath but I bump into some people who were doing a U-turn. I picked up my speed again and finished the run in less than 1 hour.

Do more transition training from cycling to running.

Did not do any warm down. Had a bottle of H2O


Insufficient training for transition. HR monitor would have been helpful to guide effort during running phase but it malfunction thus was not able to use that as a gauge. The cycling phase, the speedometer malfunction thus was in the dark about the speed. It felt like a blind man without a walking aid.


The course has too many sharp corners which need to slow down. The Swim starts only at 11:20pm (that is when the water was choppy).