O Macritchie, how great it is, to look upon thy face once more…

After a lovely – what was it, 7 months? – of hard ‘O’ level preparation and putting on weight, a couple of us decided to go and visit our juniors at training. Ok, fine, ‘couple’ means Russell, I and Nick. Jon was actually supposed to come too, but on that day he called up to say he was really tired and so couldn’t make it. Ah well, what could we do?

The initial plan was to go to training, catch up with our old pal Jiao Lian, take the boat of our choice and have a nice, relaxing playtime. If the juniors needed a little mentoring, ok, we’d oblige. I think when we made that offer to Jiao Lian, what we had in mind was standing safely on shore, watching the sec 1s in the small pond and correcting their strokes. Or maybe we’d row beside one of them slowly and carefully monitor them. Guess what? Nick was made to row K2 with our sec 2 Gabriel and had to do two 2k timings together with about three 500m s. Poor dude…

Russell and I, on the other hand, were a little more fortunate. We got to take a K2! It was a tiger, naturally. We went nicely, slowly, and even played the throw-your-paddle-in-front-and-paddle-with-your-hands-to-get-it thing! Every now and then we had to stop to rest though…*sigh* we’re getting so old… but hey, we were fast! We could keep up with Nick Goh’s K1 FOR 3 BUOYS! We haven’t lost it yet!! =)

In any case, getting to see all our juniors again was a treat. We missed you guys…and having lunch with you’ll again, just like old times…train hard, little dudes!! Get the B’div gold, and you guys are one up on us oldies! And make sure the littler dudes (sec 1s) retain the C’div gold once more!

Good old cheer...

Anyway, as I recall, the day after training, I woke up and ached.

-Peter