My work and myself
2010 was a brave new page in career.
I started a new page from the beginning of January, moved on my career to a larger scale environment, learning more skills and bear more responsibility. I felt comfortable to get along with the team, they are all young, friendly and energetic. That enable myself to settle down in the first 2 quarters while I can still maintain my fitness to do race in Triathlon.
I was having confident to manage the training and work so I signed up my first Ironman 70.3 for Taiwan in June, I planned for 4 months of training should allow me to cross the finish line strongly in Kenting in October.
However, things not always goes smooth as you thought.
3 staff turnovers in the team of 6 in latter part of the year, more loading and leadership responsibility were all shifted to my shoulders since August, think on the bright side, I've got some smart new joiner who pick up things quite fast but still took me a lot of time on guidance and mentoring.
That's broken down my training plan for the strong finishing the Ironman 70.3, and my goal was re-adjusted to just to finish it.
In October, Kenting, been there, done this, read my story here.
It also started accumulating the stress from the work, and the race during Q3.
I also felt quite stressful when both G and myself are training together for the same long distance race. We felt great when we can workout together and chillout together and eliminating all the surrounding in living e.g. work, daily housework, cooking....
In reality, it's very hard to work out the plan, we finally need to get help from the part-time maid to assist on the housework. Nevertheless, eating out 6 days a week after training at 9:30pm or 10pm felt like quite shit...
On the up side, I quite enjoy the wedding anniversary holiday at Bali while we both still have a solid plan to keep training in the 5 star resort setting.
At the new work place, Q4 is not really mean to close out some tasks or project and everything are still running at full speed until the mid-Dec while the technology change freeze period begin.
My year end trip was schedule in the end of November for the Phuket Triathlon race and went back to HK for Gorzilla Live! So I had done some off-loading so my off-season from work began 2 weeks earlier. That's good plan though!
Sonic
I thought I wouldn't have much time on the club admin in 2010 but it turned out okay.
We ran all Sonic Time Trial, Training Camp in Zhuhai was a great success, we also have some new and fresh involvement from the new members, they bring in more idea, more training quality, Rockson also developed as a good coach, huge success in oversea race such as Ironman 70.3 Taiwan, Laguna Phuket Triathlon. Great social gathering by Janice, and she latter on was assigned as Club Entertainment in charge for another huge successful Sonic End of Season Party!
It was a pity that the mid-year Pattaya swim-run training camp cannot happen due to the political conflict in Thailand in May. It turned the trip into the holiday trip of G, myself with John and Raymond.
Overall, 2010 was a great year for Sonic, I felt the unity among the members.
2010 was a brave new page in career.
I started a new page from the beginning of January, moved on my career to a larger scale environment, learning more skills and bear more responsibility. I felt comfortable to get along with the team, they are all young, friendly and energetic. That enable myself to settle down in the first 2 quarters while I can still maintain my fitness to do race in Triathlon.
I was having confident to manage the training and work so I signed up my first Ironman 70.3 for Taiwan in June, I planned for 4 months of training should allow me to cross the finish line strongly in Kenting in October.
However, things not always goes smooth as you thought.
3 staff turnovers in the team of 6 in latter part of the year, more loading and leadership responsibility were all shifted to my shoulders since August, think on the bright side, I've got some smart new joiner who pick up things quite fast but still took me a lot of time on guidance and mentoring.
That's broken down my training plan for the strong finishing the Ironman 70.3, and my goal was re-adjusted to just to finish it.
In October, Kenting, been there, done this, read my story here.
It also started accumulating the stress from the work, and the race during Q3.
I also felt quite stressful when both G and myself are training together for the same long distance race. We felt great when we can workout together and chillout together and eliminating all the surrounding in living e.g. work, daily housework, cooking....
In reality, it's very hard to work out the plan, we finally need to get help from the part-time maid to assist on the housework. Nevertheless, eating out 6 days a week after training at 9:30pm or 10pm felt like quite shit...
On the up side, I quite enjoy the wedding anniversary holiday at Bali while we both still have a solid plan to keep training in the 5 star resort setting.
At the new work place, Q4 is not really mean to close out some tasks or project and everything are still running at full speed until the mid-Dec while the technology change freeze period begin.
My year end trip was schedule in the end of November for the Phuket Triathlon race and went back to HK for Gorzilla Live! So I had done some off-loading so my off-season from work began 2 weeks earlier. That's good plan though!
Sonic
I thought I wouldn't have much time on the club admin in 2010 but it turned out okay.
We ran all Sonic Time Trial, Training Camp in Zhuhai was a great success, we also have some new and fresh involvement from the new members, they bring in more idea, more training quality, Rockson also developed as a good coach, huge success in oversea race such as Ironman 70.3 Taiwan, Laguna Phuket Triathlon. Great social gathering by Janice, and she latter on was assigned as Club Entertainment in charge for another huge successful Sonic End of Season Party!
It was a pity that the mid-year Pattaya swim-run training camp cannot happen due to the political conflict in Thailand in May. It turned the trip into the holiday trip of G, myself with John and Raymond.
Overall, 2010 was a great year for Sonic, I felt the unity among the members.
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