The Track series 1 was held 14 and 15th Jan 2012 at Bukit Gombak Stadium. Most of the athletes competing in IVP or the National schools considered the first track series as a warm up race. The IVP was just few weeks away, in ITE Simei on the 28th Jan. This track series is the last chance for them to practice before the most important competition in their league.
Under Team Reactiv, we sent Republic Polytechnic and Sengkang secondary school. The results can be found in www.singaporeathletics.org.sg . However I would like to highlight the result of the RP athletes. We faced problems during the preparation period; getting athletes to train regularly, equipment issues and injuries. despite these problems, we managed to get some but not all of our athletes to take part, and these are the results from the RP guys:
Natalie Lee - 200m: 28.25s
Marcus Kwan - 100m: 12.37s, 200m: 25.8s
Don Ng - 100m: 12.01, 200m: 24.64s
Yanto - 200m: 27.33s
Terence - 100m: 13.32s
Derrick - 100m: 13.41s
Khalis - 400m: 55.05s
Huzail - 100m: 11.88s
I think its is a great place to test the athlete and let them have a feel of how the competition is like. These athletes will know their level of performance compared to their peers of the same age category. Terence and Derrick are our latest addition to the team and have no sprinting experience before. I hope these races will encourage them to train hard and work hard to achieve and improve on their personal best.
It is when your team mates train and suffer together with you, finish the last lap of the intervals, supporting you when doing heavy weights and push you to sprint faster, and these are the things that makes you do things that you never expect to do it by yourself. It is this process that creates the excitement to motivate yourself during training. This is one family.
