Singapore Canoe Marathon 2009
Burst! Draft! Grit! Power Up! Portage! Compose!
... But can your butt stand the turmoil?
Well well well. As much as the motivation could falsify one into believing that the marathon route this year is still the same distance upon seeing the new route, GOOGLE EARTH reveals all! Ok the route for this year's race was shortened a little but racers has to go more rounds. For eg. in senior men, previously it was 5 rounds, 4 portages. Now, it's 8 rounds and 7 portages. Wooohooo, 7 portages is daunting enough, not to mention 8 rounds. Hahah.
Ok so please take a look:
Biao first went to measure and he raised that it was looong. And so, I followed as closely to the diagram as possible and here it is. The 1st round is already freakin' 6.6km!
(Oh yes and on the bottom left, you can check out my convo with him)
2 rounds, 13.47km. 0_0
4 rounds and freakin 26km! OH MY GOSH. Senior men, 52km! Bleah, no joke man!
(All the senior rowers will freakin' have baboon butts and have their nuts roll off. tssssk)
Hmmm OK OK, so maybe, maaaaybe, There would be a shorter turning before the barrage, so here it is:
But still, it's only a 300m difference? One round is still 6.3km..
And for the Novice category rowers, 3 rounds, 17.54km. Mmmhmm interesting.
Let's see if there'd be changes come the team manager's briefing this Thursday. Heh, but whatever it is, one thing i'm sure about this race.
It's time to BURN
