If at first you don't succeed, try and try again.

Looking forward to Sat 3 Nov & beautiful weather this time!

Luke's Vegetable Patch

This was a June school holiday project. Started off with seeds and now look at how overgrown it is. The chicken wire cover is not supposed to be there. It was put there to prevent the birds from picking the seeds when he first planted it.

But before we knew it, the vines had intertwined themselves and it was not possible to remove without killing the plant.

On the left with the stick for support is my basil. It's from Gourmet @ Guthrie. I needed basil for my chicken and bought the plant. Stuck it in the ground and amazingly it's still alive.

The big leaves belong to the cucumbers. We ate the big one today. Pretty good. Home grown organic cucumbers!

The funny shaped leaves belong to the watermelon. But none in sight so far......

Tuesday Bike Gang

These are my cycling "si-fu's". One day, I will have as much stamina & cycling technique as them. At the moment, I can just about keep up. It's the hills that I fall behind. And toward the end of a long ride, the take off from the traffic lights too. An easy ride for them is now a hard ride for me. But I'm working on it....

Triladies
Well, the event I've been training the last 12 weeks for was this morning. It started out nice and sunny. I took 17 minutes on the swim (breaststroke all the way - didn't care since I kept up with the freestylers), 40 minutes on the bike (kept to my 26-28km/hr) and was still feeling fresh.

But didn't get to run. It was an intense storm that was Category 1 with a teeny bit of lightning. So the race was cancelled. Erring on the side of caution.

One angmoh was really upset she didn't get to finish and started shouting at the officials.

Running is not my forte so I was quite happy to not have to run. Some 'seow on' people went for a fun run anyway. Tim & I went to eat 'chai tow kway' at the hawker centre. So....the whole process of preparing for this tri has been great. I'm hooked. And come next tri, I think I'm going to go for the Olympic Distance instead of the Sprint. Today was very 'doable' and I know I would have achieved my goal if not for the weather.

Don't you like the pic of me on my bike and my head cut off? At least I was smiling....

Shape Run 2007

Orange is the 'in' colour for run competitions this year. This is the Nike DriFit tee that I got for Shape Run yesterday. It's got a neat little pocket at the back just right for my Creative Zen Nano to sit.

The Mizuno Wave runners' tee was also orange.

So was the Passion runners' tee.

My Sugoi Tri Suit is orange too. Good....cos orange is my colour.

Finally well.....I think.
I have not exercised since Sunday 26 August. That is 13 days ago. It feels like a very long time to me. I'm anxious to resume my training but conscious of the need for full recovery. It was an awful sore throat, runny nose and phlegmy cough I had. Full blown. Still spitting out a bit of remnant phlegm - no longer green though.

I am looking forward to the Shape Run this Sunday. Tried to pick up the Race Kit @ Marina Square just now but discovered a terrible queue. Wasted no time waiting there and am now wondering who I can bribe to get the deed done. Once upon a time, I was patient enough to stand in line. Like sheep. But it's such a &^^%#$!!!!! waste of time. It's a sin to waste people's time like that!
There has to be a better way.

The Value of Time (author unknown)

To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.
To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute:
Ask the person who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize the value of one second:
Ask a person who has survived an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when you share it with someone special. -->