no rushing in a river.

This week was a pretty good one, and very special indeed :) though stress is piling up from school and nats schools, let's look on the bright side and be happy

First of all, I've gotten a lot better and back to training! 

And it's my birthday week, thank you to all those who celebrated this special day with me, it truly means a lot :)

Knowing that I have so many people I love taking care of me all the time; thank you for everything! <3

Anyways, my first weights session in 3 weeks was on Tuesday. I struggled a lot, but I'm just glad I'm back to training, rather than watching my team train from the window of my 'jail cell' which is basically the cca room. The reps increased by quite a bit and I struggled during bench pull most (usually bench press feels worse) and I felt really tired while doing tyre flips, but besides that it was quite a nice feeling being back in the weights room haha. 

Then my fifteenth birthday! -confetti- 

Spent time with my oneders during lunch, they sang for me twice *感动* and thank you for the handwritten notes and gifts, many of them which were really unexpected too! I kept on rereading all the christmas, new year and birthday cards; they really help when you are upset or troubled, or when you just need a laugh :-) thank you for using your time to get those gifts and write those cards, it's really lovely of you guys 8D 

2.4 on Thursday was a killer I swear, first running land in three weeks is a trial D: clocked the same timing as the previous trial, barely under 12 again, but I'm motivated to train harder and get my fitness back after recovering! I was feeling sick after running six rounds plus joining the juniors right afterwards, and I have no idea why my legs felt jelly-like, but it got slightly better after pullups. By the time land ended, the feeling disappeared, and I'm glad for that fact (because I was afraid I was gonna fall sick again).

Macritchie has really good air by the way. My blocked nose cleared after water trials (it's still cleared now), and I'm feeling a lot better than in the previous weeks. So trials were fine, my cycle is still too slow for the K4, I just can't let my paddle enter the water the same time as Bao, it's always a little too late. I have to make up seven water trainings to meet requirements, so as long as my parents allow it, four times a week for water. (and this is for the next seven weeks and nats is in nine weeks)

I hope the K4 rudder will be fine, if there was some lucky draw which we can choose what our prize is I would ask for boats which are durable and in excellent condition and won't spoil so we don't have to worry about our equipment getting damaged all the time... and there are two K2 tigers without rudders, and we are only left with 3 working K2 tigers, plus so many boats have chips, scratches, cracks, leakages and missing screws (I always feel sad when I look at K2 06, the front is chipped so badly) and the Ferrari's gonna be scrapped due to it's natural tilt (tearful goodbye to the boat that earned me two 4th placings during NCC'13), our sport is literally equipment-based, we get punished whenever we damage our boats/paddles, and hopefully when I graduate, at least half the boats we have now are still in good condition when I return as super senior.

It has been a good week even though I've been rambling alot about not-very-positive stuff. I think it's just because many people made me happy this week, that's why :)

One day please :D