Friday, January 4, 2008
i've read a recent newspaper article on the interview with the young national gymnasts not long ago. the article talked about the sweat and tears behind each medal they had won at the SEA games, how they spend 6 days a week training (note that they had school too and some were mugging for their O's). some for them even had to defer to O levels in order to achieve their dreams.
well, what we can see is that when an athlete stands on the podium to receive the medals, wat the spectators and audience see is only their competition performance. wat many people fail to realise is that their good results do not come easy. it's takes a hell lot of training to really stand out on the international arena. really.
i went back for training today with the nj trackers, thinking to regain some of the fitness that i had lost. to my horror, i didn't just lose 'some' fitness, but rather 'all' of them. i realise that my fitness could somewhat be compared to that of a primary school kid. seriously, i couldn't believe myself. my legs couldn't carry me forward fast enough, i couldn't lift my knee at all and my arm swing felt awkward. all in all my run was really wierd. and i almost cramped up, and also ended up with a splitting headache after the workout. a few months back, the workout which i did today would have been child's play. but today, it was an entirely different story.
it's really not easy to maintain one's fitness, let alone improve. looking back, when i was still in track, i've always thought my athletic capabilites came because i had some athletic gene or something. guess i was wrong. it was all that hard work that i had put in since sec1 when i started running. every workout from day1, every interval, every long run, every stride, every drill, everything. and now that i've stopped, i've lost everything, and now i'm back to me again when i was in sec1, the guy who ran 12:30 for his 2.4km
i want to get my fitness back... oh well.
aaron | 12:09 AM
