Sunday, May 6, 2012

1st Triathlon @ 6 May 2012!

2010 focus on coping with pregnancy & taking a backseat from sport.
2011 (Last year) focus was recovery from pregnancy & delivery, building up the fitness & coping with being a new mother.  Sport wise was getting really strong especially with biking & Bali Audax of 200KM over 2 days was done without much difficulty.  Work wise was a breakthrough too with my biggest & most challenging project successfully launched.

2012 - is a new season of appreciating how blessed we are!  
Baby Kara is healthy & extremely smiley (melts our heart everyday!).
Work wise was a new breakthrough with a new team & portfolio & rewarded sufficiently.
Blessed to have family support to start my part-time MBA programme with Manchester Business School.
Sport wise was getting more balance with taking breaks here & there without feeling too much guilt.
- Bikram Yoga helped improve my flexibility & it's great to find a place so conveniently located whose schedule fits before heading to work. 
- Jogging these days is with the great company of Gerald whom we can push each other instead of slagging!
- Swimming is back to weekly Monday swim lessons with SeaMonsta @ conveniently located Pasir Ris pool that is 5 mins from the MRT.
- Biking is taking slightly less priority due to frequent travels & many late working nights.

Nonetheless I'm glad to be able to do my 1st Tri this year. Despite the Mini distance of 250m Swim / 20Km Bike / 2.5Km Run, it's awesome to overcome the fear of swimming in the open sea!
New Moon Triathlon was perfect start for me.  Not too competitive & sets the basic for the Sprint distance hopefully in August.

Getting ready @ Transition Area:

 Men start line..

   Women start for Mini category is certainly less competitive.
  
Nervous at the start line. LoL

 Here I come!









Swim leg was certainly not as daunting as I imagined.  Was fortunate I was in the middle of the pack so this certainly boasted my confidence to try a sprint distance this year. =)



 Bike was certainly my strongest! 20 Km was no kick & I could overtake many many follow riders. =)





  Definitely need more brick training! Running after bike always gives me stitches.
Crossing the finish line feels great!  Enpowers me greatly! Nothing is too difficult so long as you dream about it & work hard towards it.



Great to have Gerald coming to support me though out the race! Great pics & it's different when you know someone is there waiting for you. Make me want to go faster to reach the finish line. =)
Great company for the race =)
  

 Checking the results on the spot & pleasantly surprise by the results!
4th position for the Female & 16-39  age group Category (out of 35 competitors), 11 secs away from the 2nd runner up, & 19th/121 position overall.  Nice for the 1st triathlon attempt =)



My favorite pic that serves to motivate me when the tough gets going from July onwards when I embark on my "back-to studies-journey" while balancing the busy work life & family.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

SkyLoof

SkyLoof with the gang to celebrate Daryl's bday.
The moment we reach the place, it's no doubt this place is awesome & we'll definitely come again!
Great sunset view & firework surprise come at 10pm+ The live band is also great.



Friday, May 4, 2012

Daddy & Mummy's date

Osteria Mozza restaurant @ MBS is always packed with diners till late so we always wanted to give it a try.  Food was ok but very ex & it made us realized how lucky we are to have Pepperoni Restaurant so near us whose food is better & reasonably priced. =)


Sunday, April 29, 2012

Time flies - Julian 1st Bay






Great sesame street theme party with a super cool customerised backdrop that perfect for photo taking =)




3rd KL Trip

3rd KL trip & after several back-to-back travel, mummy is sick of flying & missing precious time with baby Kara.  Decided to try out the early 6am+ flight rather than flying the night before.
Was busy packing & clearing emails till late the night before and ended up jumping out of bed 10 mins before the alarm clock rang, thinking that I've overslept & missed the flight. *stressful!*

Great view from the office on a clear day =)
Since it's a super short trip, decided to try out KL Hilton which is right above the KL Sentral station.  Certainly not as good as the Gardens hotel & the room wifi costs a whomping SGD$25!  I'm so going to ban this hotel!
Mummy is back & extremely happy to spend 1-1 time with baby Kara. =)