Took on the new role from the start of April, and made my first trip to Europe for a training event.
It was pretty interesting to sit in on business review meetings with European distributors to find out that they face pretty much similar issues with my Asian distributors.
It was a good trip to learn new stuff and consolidate my experiences and knowledge as well.
Not to mention the extra few days of holidays spent visiting around Prague. At least it was something different compared to my past solo trips in USA.
Also made my first official business trip to China and India.
Feels shiok to have impressed and shocked the Chinese counterparts with fluent command of both English and Chinese.
India was a mini culture shock to me though. The climate was excruciating hot, and the traffic conditions was a culmination of the worst of SEA traffic:
I had joined the TI swim coach team and started my path towards a swim coach in April. Been spending a lot of time training and learning, with a possibility of this becoming a full time business venture in the future if things go right for me.
This is probably one of the more secure routes for me to take to having my own (joint) business by gaining a good set up of my base network, knowledge and skills
Scored IPPT Gold again during my ICT under the new format.
I can safely say that I didn't train at all for this IPPT.
I was mainly busy with swim classes in the last few months, and didn't have time to put in speed run workouts. And as Cebu is getting nearer, I made the conscious choice to train for my bike instead of training on the 2.4km run.
Ignoring results on the new static stations, I did exceptionally well for this IPPT.
Still managed to clock an incredible 9.58 for my 2.4km run under the sweltering heat at 10AM.
I was expecting to clock around 11 minutes with my current physical conditioning.
So I should still be able to score Gold on the old system since the cut-off is still at 10.14
It's really a classic case of mind over body for this run, but the over-exertion effects were quite pronounced this time, as it took me 30 minutes to catch my wind immediately after the run, and another 3 days to recover from the muscle aches.
This isn't really problems of aging, but more of a fitness issue.
Must make it a point to do consistent running workouts!
66 days to Cebu!
It was pretty interesting to sit in on business review meetings with European distributors to find out that they face pretty much similar issues with my Asian distributors.
It was a good trip to learn new stuff and consolidate my experiences and knowledge as well.
Not to mention the extra few days of holidays spent visiting around Prague. At least it was something different compared to my past solo trips in USA.
Also made my first official business trip to China and India.
Feels shiok to have impressed and shocked the Chinese counterparts with fluent command of both English and Chinese.
India was a mini culture shock to me though. The climate was excruciating hot, and the traffic conditions was a culmination of the worst of SEA traffic:
- chaos and extreme close proximity to the next vehicle of Vietnam
- poor road conditions of Indonesia
- high volume and speed of Thailand
- dusty like Cambodia
I had joined the TI swim coach team and started my path towards a swim coach in April. Been spending a lot of time training and learning, with a possibility of this becoming a full time business venture in the future if things go right for me.
This is probably one of the more secure routes for me to take to having my own (joint) business by gaining a good set up of my base network, knowledge and skills
Scored IPPT Gold again during my ICT under the new format.
I can safely say that I didn't train at all for this IPPT.
I was mainly busy with swim classes in the last few months, and didn't have time to put in speed run workouts. And as Cebu is getting nearer, I made the conscious choice to train for my bike instead of training on the 2.4km run.
Ignoring results on the new static stations, I did exceptionally well for this IPPT.
Still managed to clock an incredible 9.58 for my 2.4km run under the sweltering heat at 10AM.
I was expecting to clock around 11 minutes with my current physical conditioning.
So I should still be able to score Gold on the old system since the cut-off is still at 10.14
It's really a classic case of mind over body for this run, but the over-exertion effects were quite pronounced this time, as it took me 30 minutes to catch my wind immediately after the run, and another 3 days to recover from the muscle aches.
This isn't really problems of aging, but more of a fitness issue.
Must make it a point to do consistent running workouts!
66 days to Cebu!
