Ytd race was jus great! The atmosphere there was very different from training. Theres total of 25 teams participating in this AustCham 10km race. We had our start off point at no.1, which is not a gd starting point. The best starting point are in the middle pack. Onces the horn sound off, all the 25 boats charged up. The middle pack was the fastest to charged up, they were like ahead of us 1-2 boats length, and soon further and further away. I maintain our technics, and we passed RP at about the 1KM part. Water is quite rough, as theres many boats beside and up infront of us, we are getting the back wash of the water from other boats. Soon, we broke away from the chase pack and had left us, NUS alumni, and SIM boats on par. We took turns to take the lead among the 3 boats. LoL! Theres once when SIM boat was so damn close to our boat, few of my teammates including me whacked the SIM rower's paddle a few times, then they split from us. I dunno why SIM got lots of problems, They clash with NUS alumni boats, and lost their glide of the boat, we overtook them and the NUS alumni boat. But they manage to chase up to us again. At the returning path, SIM onces again almost clash towards a speed boat, tat was really funny, but i couldnt laugh. lol!! We continued and about to turn to the last stretch to the finish line, we were been banged by NUS alumni boat by the back, and we were off steered, our steerer was our coach Patrick, he manage to steer it back, but did a big round one. But still we are leading ahead of these 2 teams. Ahead of us was the german dragon team, if we didnt got banged by the other boat, we can catch up with the german dragon boat. Our last stretch was the best, i love tat feeling. We broke away from NUS alumni and SIM and left them far behind. We charged to the finish line, got a 15th position out of 25. I hope to be better, but we did our best already. And im happy with the results of it. Next race is gonna be SAVA SPRINTS, gonna train extremely hard to clock patrick's timing for junior team. Lets do it!
AustCham NYP Team!

Paddles UP!
Im 4th from the back, left rower. :D

Warm-up paddling..

AustCham 10km Challenge Results:
1st. SMU 48.25.20
2nd. Mountbatten 49.11.92
3rd. AustCham 50.14.15
4th. PLK Paddlers 50.39.61
5th. SP 51.44.48
6th. SPC 51.59.33
7th. SAVA 52.13.36
8th. British Dragons 52.20.35
9th. Okinawa 52.29.13
10th. American Dragons 52.37.80
11th. SAFRA 52.51.23
12th. Filipino Dragons 52.59.71
13th. Canadian Dragons 53.01.59
14th. German Dragons 53.02.53
**15th. NYP 53.04.01
16th. NUS Alumni 53.50.68
17th. SIM 54.21.14
18th. RP 56.08.77
19th. Paddlers '4' ALS Awareness 56.09.07
20th. PA 56.09.92
21th. HSBC 56.45.22
22th. Spanish Armada 57.34.44
23th. MND 57.59.43
24th. Tanglin-Cairnhill 59.39.65
25th. Kowloon Club 59.58.20