ONLY BY GRACE

Hello World! At this point, I am actually marking scripts at home, something which I hardly can keep awake to do. Strangely but truly. Including this week, I have been spending my afternoons in school. First was the International Frienship Day Inter-Class Sports Competition, then Speech Day rehearsals, Sports Day trials and next week will be the NAPFA testing. Not one afternoon is un-burnt! I am spent. YET I managed to squeeze out time and whatever ounce of energy in me to go for the Bintan Triathlon Training Camp last Sat. It was a simulation of the race day and I had to go through the entire sequence of events i.e. 1.5km swim, 40km bike and 10km run. I heard it was going to be a challenging course and it cannot be any more true! The huge choppy waves made the swim frustrating and I wished I could execute a Moses move to part the sea. Then came the bike ride that took me through hilly undulating courses and I was so thankful for all the RPM and Polar sessions at Pure, which really st