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Training for triathlons in Singapore

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 19 Jul 2018   Posted by Cheryl Tay


I’ve been training for Ironman 70.3 triathlons for two years now and all the training is done in Singapore where I live (have lived all my life actually), with the exceptions of a few week-long training camps in Phuket previously. I’ve also gone for holidays in Australia, Finland and most recently Switzerland, where I’ve taken my bike along and did some training too.

Having just returned from Switzerland, one thing I have to say is – Singapore is really flat. I was in Zug for nearly two weeks and there were hills everywhere. Small hills, big hills.. suddenly Mount Faber or South Buona Vista seems small in comparison. Not just for cycling, but even for running; I was running on gravel and also going up and down slopes.

It’s summertime in Europe now, where the days are long. Sun is up at 5+am and only sets by 10pm, which means there’s a lot of time to train. Weather is beautiful too – blue skies, warm sun but cool breeze! Oh how I miss the weather there!!

So, this inspired me to write about what training for triathlons in Singapore is like… if you’re curious.

PROS of training in Singapore:

1) Singapore is a safe city

Singapore is relatively safe, as we have low crime rates. You can cycle in the wee hours of the morning or late at night, and the roads are well-lit. And if you stick to the main roads, you will most likely get a cab or two driving past, some people zipping around on those e-scooters with loud music and bright lights.. so you will not be completely alone the entire time. I have a friend, mother of one, who sometimes trains from 10pm to 3am because that’s when her kid is asleep. But please be careful ok?

2) Roads are clean and relatively smooth

The roads here are of good condition – some countries I’ve been to, have very rough roads or a lot of potholes and can get very dangerous. Although I have to add, in some areas like Tuas, or where there are a lot of heavy vehicles, you might get some debris (including broken glass!!) or more than the occasional pothole.

3) You can train anytime of the year

We are practically summertime all year round – it’s either bloody scorching hot or pouring cats and dogs. But this means you can train all 12 months here. We don’t have a winter time where it’s snowy and too cold to go outside, and you have to painfully train indoors all winter or travel out to warmer climates.

4) Access to world-class facilities

I’ve been to some countries where the public pool is not the best-maintained, or is only 25 metres, or has no proper pool. In Singapore, you can use the OCBC Aquatic Centre, which has two pools – the competition pool (the same one used for SEA Games and international swim meets) or the training pool. It’s only S$2 per entry (for Singaporeans) and you can use all your swim ‘toys’.

5) Help is all around (though at a high cost sometimes)

Being in a small city like Singapore, access to a bike shop or a running shop is not that difficult. There’s always one not too far away from you. If you need something, it will not be difficult to find someone to help you; and you might have a few places to choose from. The downside though, is that it will not be cheap la (oops this should be under Cons haha).

6) Public training facilities are not too expensive to use

Besides the OCBC Aquatic Centre, we have a lot of public pools around and entry is less than S$2 approx. (for Singaporeans). However, you cannot use your swim “toys” here and you might have to deal with non-competitive swimmers who don’t stay in “lanes” when they swim.

CONS of training in Singapore:

1)Limited cycling and running routes

Because Singapore is so small (we are an island of only 719.9km²), there is only so much land for us to cycle around. A round-island cycle will be between 120-150km, but it will include A LOT of stoplights (annoying!). The more popular places to ride are: Tanah Merah Coastal Road (which has Singapore’s only dedicated cycling lane of 10km each side of the road), Seletar Airport area (minimal stoplights), Mandai (nice ups and downs), Kranji/Neo Tiew/Lim Chu Kang, NTU (for some slopes), Mount Faber (our biggest “hill”) and South Buona Vista (for some slopes). But that’s about it – these roads are not long like country roads in other parts of the world AND there are stoplights, stoplights, stoplights.

Same for running – there are only so many places for us to run at. I usually run at East Coast Park (10.5km one way and flat) through Gardens by the Bay South to Marina Barrage and then to Marina Bay Sands. For trail running, we only have MacRitchie, Bukit Timah hill and Dairy Farm.

As we have limited cycling and running routes for training, you can imagine how the races here are mostly around the same areas. Most run races will start at F1 Pit Building or Padang or MBS and we will likely run through Nicoll Highway, ECP, Marina Bay areas. For multisport races, anything that has a swim component will either be at ECP or Sentosa. Duathlons may be at Nicoll Highway or Changi. That’s it!

2) Limited open water swim places

We have no beautiful lakes here and we can’t swim in the rivers (Singapore River or Kallang River). I mainly go to Tanjong Beach at Sentosa to swim. It’s a lagoon so the currents are not crazy, but the water is gross and murky and you can’t see anything beneath. You can also swim at ECP but I don’t like it there because it’s always so choppy and I feel like I’m gonna drown LOL.

3) Monotony of training might get to you

Yes, as both Points 1 and 2 above have narrated, the limitation of training routes inevitably lead to monotony and boredom. Every week, in and out, you run the same route, cycle the same route. For me I just try not to think about it and just focus on the training, but on bad days you really feel damn sian.

4) No dedicated cycling lane

In Phuket, Gold Coast, Hokkaido, Turku and Zug, there were dedicated cycling lanes everywhere where I was. Ok sometimes it’s an extended road shoulder, but mostly there are cycling lanes and the vehicles there know how to give way to cyclists. I always get honked at very angrily or impatiently when I cycle here, or get vehicles driving past me VERY CLOSELY. Coming too close can shock us and cause us to fall over you know! Those places also have nice country roads and back roads that sometimes seem to go on forever!

5) Drivers need to be better educated

I dare say we don’t have a cyclist-friendly culture here – drivers just aren’t all that friendly towards cyclists. I get that it’s a chicken-egg story and sometimes the cyclists are the ones who make mistakes. But it doesn’t help that each time I cycle on the roads, there will surely be drivers who drive too near me (even when there are three other empty lanes), honk at me and startle me, or think that cyclists are slow and they speed up (when they are turning out of a lane and we are coming by for example) and nearly hit us. Because there are no dedicated cycling lanes on the roads, I think that’s what makes drivers feel that we cyclists don’t “deserve” the roads. And it’s not that we don’t want to keep to the side as much as possible, but sometimes there are a lot of debris!

6) Having to wake up early (because traffic is a bitch)

The best times to cycle on weekdays is before 6.30am, otherwise traffic will be a bitch. That means having to wake up at 4am or earlier, URGH! You can also cycle at night, after 10pm when there’s less traffic. On weekends though, traffic is not as crazy so you can start later and do round-island rides, but then there’s the weather (see next point).

7) Hot and humid all year round

While being in the tropics mean you can train here all year round, it also means that you have to face unforgiving weather all year round. And also means you have to wake up earlier and start earlier and end training earlier if you don’t want to be in the sun too much. Our average humidity level is 84.2%! It can get very hot at certain times of the year and you will feel like shit, but if you’re racing in other parts of Southeast Asia then it’s fine because you will be acclimatised to the heat.

That is what training in Singapore, to me, is like. Do you train for triathlons in Singapore too? If you do and have something to share, or if I missed anything out, let me know!

Very briefly, I’ll also sum up my experiences training in these other places:

Phuket, THAILAND

I was in Phuket to train with Z-Coaching three times last year and they train around the Boat Avenue / Laguna Phuket area. Swimming is done in a public pool at the Cherngtalay Municipality Sport Centre, which is a simple complex that houses a 25-metre pool that is SUPER COLD and leaves a strong aftertaste of chlorine which might make your teeth hurt. Entry fee is S$4 for foreigners.

Open water swimming here is beautiful in the sea, but it depends on weather. If it rains a lot, the seas can get rough and one time I was there, we went to a wake boarding park to swim.

For cycling, there are a lot of nice places to ride out to, in the forested areas (which has some slopes) or down the highway to the Home and Life Bakery (about 60km from Boat Avenue). And for running it’s usually just around the Laguna Phuket area, where Layan Beach is.

Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA

I went for a week Down Under in August 2016 to nurse a broken heart (I was super emo momo then lor). I was staying along the coast, so running along there was damn shiok. The weather was also amazing – blue sunny skies with cooling breeze. I needed a windbreaker for riding though. Armed with maps from my friend, I followed the cycling lanes on the main road and then ended up on some country roads so it was really nice.

Turku, FINLAND

One year later, in August 2017, I was in Turku, Finland for a week. Turku is a very quiet place with very few Asians, so I did get quite a lot of “friendly stares”. From where I was staying, I just followed the cycling lane out and you could keep going and going, ending up in another town. I would run the same route there too. For swimming, I went to the Impivaara swimming facility at Uimahallinpolku and it was so big! There were many types of pools, including an Olympic-sized pool with proper lane allocation. You can use all your swim “toys” as well. I can’t recall how much entry was though! Weather at that time was very cooling and I needed a windbreaker for running and cycling.

Hokkaido, JAPAN

I went for a cycling trip in the north of Hokkaido last September and it was so nice to cycle there! You should go there and try their many cycling routes, on top of enjoying the food. I didn’t get to cycle as much as I wanted to; I have to go back one day!

Zug, SWITZERLAND

Most recently I was in Zug for 1.5 weeks and this time of the year is beautiful. I cycled around the big lake, I rode till I found myself in Zurich or Lucerne, and there were hills everywhere! I also ran around the lake, where you get gravel to run on, as well as big meadows where you go up and down for a bit. For swimming, I went to Schwimmbad Lättich, which is a huge swimming facility with many pools indoor and outdoor. Entry fee is S$12!! Whew. The 50-metre pool has no lane allocation but people just somehow find a way not to swim into each other. Oh and yes you can use your swim “toys”. Actually the lake is a beautiful place to swim in, but I was afraid it would be too cold so I didn’t try 🙁 In hindsight I should have!

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Don’t push yourself if you really need a break. Work and life can really overwhelm us and we are only human.

But if you’re just lazy and always making excuses to get out of your workout, then please have a conversation with yourself and realign your objectives. What do you want to work out for? And how can you stay committed?

For me, I’m training for a race so my goals are different and I do have a bigger obligation to put in the work. But if you’re just trying to keep an active lifestyle, keep yourself motivated, remember the purpose and learn to tell if you’re tired or just lazy!

Seen here wearing my new @asicssg GEL-KINSEI BLAST LE shoes - took them for an 18km run and I’m liking them! Share a photo of you working out, tag @asicssg and #AsicsForSAMH and they will donate $5 towards mental health support.

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    Traded my tri bike in for a different type of bicy Traded my tri bike in for a different type of bicycle at the Spin Orchestra, one of six experiential zones of The Wellness Sensorium! As you cycle here, you trigger interactive lights and music - very pretty at night especially. 

The Wellness Sensorium runs until 12 June and is open daily, for free, at The Meadow at Gardens by the Bay. Ticket booking is required though, through www.wellnessfest.sg.

The other zones are interesting too, including the Stone Ritual where you can engage in a stone stacking ritual and The Monument of Good Vibes where you can write a quote to inspire and be inspired.

There's also a Masterclass Studio which has different types of activities going on, from fitness classes to stitch meditation, nutrition and mental health talks. I signed up for Sunset Cardio, which was a Boxing HIIT session by sista @victoriacheng.

These are all part of the Wellness Festival Singapore which has a wide range of activities running across the island. I attended the Finding Your Inner Balance day workshop by @bluesky.escapes, which had Qi Gong/Tai Chi, a gut health talk, a healing sound bath, raw chocolate making session and a wholesome plant-based meal at @livingcafesg. Definitely learnt a lot to help improve my health!

Head on over to www.wellnessfest.sg to check out all the different activities and see what might pique your interest!

#WFS2022 #VisitSingapore @wellnessfestsg @visitsingapore @stb_sg
    I still can fit into my trisuit! LOL I dug this @t I still can fit into my trisuit! LOL I dug this @teampurpose custom trisuit from the depths of my cupboard after not touching it for over 2 years. Forgot to give it a wash before wearing it and I kept smelling this musty scent oops.

Queen Bitch is out too, off the trainer and back on the road. Less than 2 months to Ironman 70.3 Desaru (my slot was carried over from 2020) and all I want is for my legs to hold me up to the end hahahahahaha.

My key race is still the BMW Berlin Marathon in September, but I’ll still do my best for this!

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    Reasons why we run - @thehuangergames made me writ Reasons why we run - @thehuangergames made me write this, LOL. Hence my face!

This is part of the Puma Run XX Nitro experience at Bugis+ Level 2 atrium, where you can play their activities and complete for a 30% discount off their running collection in store.

Swipe to have a look at what we did and head down before this Sunday!

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    'Twas a hot weekend! 🥵🥵🥵 Desaru was indee 'Twas a hot weekend! 🥵🥵🥵 Desaru was indeed hot and humid, totally what I was expecting, so be prepared for a sufferfest if you're doing the Ironman 70.3 Desaru.

My race entry was brought over from 2020 so I guess I'm doing it lol. My focus is still on the Berlin Marathon though!

Headed down to the race site over the weekend to check it out and here are my observations:

Swim - The water is clear and you could see the sand bottom till quite far out. When I was there, the conditions were calm and it was nice to swim in.

Bike - A couple of roundabouts and mostly long straight roads that stretch far ahead, lined with trees, with rolling hills similar to the profile of Mandai. But be prepared for a few tough slopes! Not super tough that you have to get down and push your bike la don't worry.

Run - I couldn't check out the actual run course because the golf course is closed to public, but I heard it's shaded in some parts, some rolling hills as well, and it's 3 rounds around the golf course.

Hotel - If you're staying at the official race hotel, Westin Desaru, the rooms are big so lots of space for all your race gear. Balcony is big, shower stall has a ledge to sit on when you're too tired to stand and shower, lift is big and can fit a few bicycles.

But the service in the main restaurant Seasonal Tastes is slow. You can drive out to the coffee shops further out away from the coast as an alternative or bring your own food haha.

OK I hope this comes in helpful for those of you going up for the race in July! I drove in with my own car so if you need tips just DM me ok.

📷: @jacqtours

#ironman703desaru #desarucoast
    A quick weekend to Desaru with my mum! First time A quick weekend to Desaru with my mum! First time I’m driving into Malaysia post-COVID and also first overseas trip with my mum post-COVID.

I really love travelling with my mum because she’s so easy to travel with and she’s perpetually in a good mood. I’m so glad that my relationship with my parents are alright now. They still have not accepted Grace and prefer not to talk about her and change topics when I bring her up. But it’s ok, one step at a time, at least they are not ignoring me anymore.

Those who are planning to drive into Malaysia, borrow a Touch ‘n’ Go card from someone who has money in it. Remember that if you don't use your TAG card for a year, it will be invalid even if the card has not expired yet. And then, buy a TAG card from Singapore (selected petrol kiosks) and top it up in Malaysia.

When I drove into Malaysia, I went to so many petrol stations and toll offices and they all said they didn't have any TAG cards to sell! Thank goodness I bought from Singapore, so I could top it up there and not have to borrow from a friend the next time I go in.

#desaru #westindesaru #roadtrip #travelwithmum #malaysiaboleh #desarubeach #desarucoast
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