Dear all,
Additional Training for Sec ones:
Mileage Training
Strengthening
- Coach
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Training conducted today (29th July 2008)
Dear all,
Training conducted today:
Gym workout (For Nicholas, Ryley, Bryan, Marsyah, Huiteng)
6 sets grass jumps plus 2 sets 250m
Gym workout (Myself + Mr Fazly)
4 sets 200m (30secs pace)
4 sets 100m (12 sec pace)
- Coach
Training conducted today:
Gym workout (For Nicholas, Ryley, Bryan, Marsyah, Huiteng)
6 sets grass jumps plus 2 sets 250m
Gym workout (Myself + Mr Fazly)
4 sets 200m (30secs pace)
4 sets 100m (12 sec pace)
- Coach
Monday, July 28, 2008
Read this....
Owens pierced a myth
By Larry SchwartzESPN.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another.
Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.
But that was merely an appetizer for Owens. In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master race.
Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of global politics. Berlin, on the verge of World War II, was bristling with Nazism, red-and-black swastikas flying everywhere. Brown-shirted Storm Troopers goose-stepped while Adolf Hitler postured, harangued, threatened. A montage of evil was played over the chillingly familiar Nazi anthem: "Deutschland Uber Alles."
This was the background for the 1936 Olympics. When Owens finished competing, the African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves had single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.
He gave four virtuoso performances, winning gold medals in the 100- and 200- meter dashes, the long jump and on America's 4x100 relay team. Score it: Owens 4, Hitler 0.
A remarkably even-keeled and magnanimous human being, Owens never rubbed it in. Just as sure as he knew fascism was evil, he also knew his country had a ways to go too in improving life for African-Americans.
"When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus," Owens said. "I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either."
Owens wasn't complaining. That wasn't his style. He believed it was his job "to try to make things better."
Born James Cleveland Owens on Sept. 12, 1913, in Oakville, Ala., he was often ill as a child, suffering from both chronic bronchial congestion and several bouts of pneumonia. Inadequate housing, food and clothing didn't help his health.
By the age of seven he was expected to pick 100 pounds of cotton a day. At nine his family moved to Cleveland. When a teacher asked his name, he answered, "J.C.," which is what he was called. The teacher misunderstood his Southern drawl and the name was Jesse from then on.
As a teenager he set or tied national high school records in the 100- and 220-yard dashes and the long jump (called the broad jump then). At Ohio State, he was not a good student but he was easily the swiftest on the track.
Two weeks before the 1935 Big Ten Championships, Owens was involved in some playful hi-jinks with his roommates. But the prank backfired and he slipped on water during his getaway, severely injuring his tailbone.
On May 25 in Ann Arbor, Mich., Owens couldn't even bend over to touch his knees. But as the sophomore settled in for his first race, he said the pain "miraculously disappeared."
3:15 -- The "Buckeye Bullet" ran the 100-yard dash in 9.4 seconds to tie the world record.
3:25 -- In his only long jump, he leaped 26-8 1/4, a world record that would last 25 years.
3:34 -- His 20.3 seconds bettered the world record in the 220-yard dash.
4:00 -- With his 22.6 seconds in the 220-yard low hurdles, he became the first person to break 23 seconds in the event.
Some credit Owens with setting five world records, saying he also beat the marks for the shorter 200 meters and 200-meter low hurdles.
In his junior year at Ohio State, Owens competed in 42 events and won them all, including four in the Big Ten Championships, four in the NCAA Championships, two in the AAU Championships and three at the Olympic Trials.
In Germany, the Nazis portrayed African-Americans as inferior and ridiculed the United States for relying on "black auxiliaries." One German official even complained that the Americans were letting "non-humans, like Owens and other Negro athletes," compete.
But the German people felt otherwise. Crowds of 110,000 cheered him in Berlin's glittering Olympic Stadium and his autograph or picture was sought as he walked the streets.
On Aug. 3, the 5-foot-10, 165-pound Owens won his first final, taking the 100 meters in 10.3, edging out Ralph Metcalfe, also an African-American.
The next day, Owens was almost out of the long jump shortly after qualifying began. He fouled on his first two jumps, though he was stunned when officials counted a practice run down the runway and into the pit as an attempt.
With one jump remaining, Luz Long, a tall, blue-eyed, blond German long jumper who was his stiffest competition, introduced himself. He suggested that Owens make a mark several inches before the takeoff board and jump from there to play it safe. Owens took the advice, and qualified.
In the finals that afternoon, Long's fifth jump matched Owens' 25-10. But Owens leaped 26-3¾ on his next attempt and won the gold medal with a final jump of 26-5½. The first to congratulate the Olympic record holder was Long, who looked like the model Nazi but wasn't.
"It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler," Owens said. "You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Luz Long at that moment. Hitler must have gone crazy watching us embrace. The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II." Owens, though, would continue to correspond with Long's family.
In the 200-meter dash on August 5, Owens won in an Olympic record of 20.7 seconds, beating out Mack Robinson, the older brother of Jackie Robinson.
That was supposed to be the end of Owens' Olympic participation. But from out of the blue, Owens and Metcalfe replaced Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, the only Jews on the U.S. track team, on the 4x100-meter relay.
The rumor was that the Nazi hierarchy had asked U.S. officials not to humiliate Germany further by using two Jews to add to the gold medals the African-Americans already had won. Glickman blamed U.S. Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage for acquiescing to the Nazis.
On August 9, the 4x100 relay team, with Owens running leadoff, won by 15 yards and its world-record time of 39.8 seconds would last 20 years. Upon Owens' return to New York and a ticker-tape parade, he had to ride the freight elevator to a reception in his honor at the Waldorf-Astoria. He was treated as a kind of curiosity. When endorsements didn't come his way, he made money by, among other activities, running against horses and dogs.
"People said it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do?" Owens said. "I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals."
Not until the fifties did he achieve financial security, becoming a public speaker for corporations and opening a public-relations firm.
In a 1950 Associated Press poll, he was voted the greatest track and field star for the first half of century, outpolling Jim Thorpe by almost three to one.
In 1976, President Ford presented Owens with the Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the U.S. can bestow upon a civilian.
Owens, a-pack-a-day smoker for 35 years, died of lung cancer at age 66 on March 31, 1980 in Tucson, Ariz.
Four years later, a street in Berlin was renamed in his honor.
A decade after his death, President Bush posthumously awarded Owens the Congressional Medal of Honor. Bush called his victories in Berlin "an unrivaled athletic triumph, but more than that, a triumph for all humanity."
By Larry SchwartzESPN.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another.
Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.
But that was merely an appetizer for Owens. In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master race.
Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of global politics. Berlin, on the verge of World War II, was bristling with Nazism, red-and-black swastikas flying everywhere. Brown-shirted Storm Troopers goose-stepped while Adolf Hitler postured, harangued, threatened. A montage of evil was played over the chillingly familiar Nazi anthem: "Deutschland Uber Alles."
This was the background for the 1936 Olympics. When Owens finished competing, the African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves had single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.
He gave four virtuoso performances, winning gold medals in the 100- and 200- meter dashes, the long jump and on America's 4x100 relay team. Score it: Owens 4, Hitler 0.
A remarkably even-keeled and magnanimous human being, Owens never rubbed it in. Just as sure as he knew fascism was evil, he also knew his country had a ways to go too in improving life for African-Americans.
"When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus," Owens said. "I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either."
Owens wasn't complaining. That wasn't his style. He believed it was his job "to try to make things better."
Born James Cleveland Owens on Sept. 12, 1913, in Oakville, Ala., he was often ill as a child, suffering from both chronic bronchial congestion and several bouts of pneumonia. Inadequate housing, food and clothing didn't help his health.
By the age of seven he was expected to pick 100 pounds of cotton a day. At nine his family moved to Cleveland. When a teacher asked his name, he answered, "J.C.," which is what he was called. The teacher misunderstood his Southern drawl and the name was Jesse from then on.
As a teenager he set or tied national high school records in the 100- and 220-yard dashes and the long jump (called the broad jump then). At Ohio State, he was not a good student but he was easily the swiftest on the track.
Two weeks before the 1935 Big Ten Championships, Owens was involved in some playful hi-jinks with his roommates. But the prank backfired and he slipped on water during his getaway, severely injuring his tailbone.
On May 25 in Ann Arbor, Mich., Owens couldn't even bend over to touch his knees. But as the sophomore settled in for his first race, he said the pain "miraculously disappeared."
3:15 -- The "Buckeye Bullet" ran the 100-yard dash in 9.4 seconds to tie the world record.
3:25 -- In his only long jump, he leaped 26-8 1/4, a world record that would last 25 years.
3:34 -- His 20.3 seconds bettered the world record in the 220-yard dash.
4:00 -- With his 22.6 seconds in the 220-yard low hurdles, he became the first person to break 23 seconds in the event.
Some credit Owens with setting five world records, saying he also beat the marks for the shorter 200 meters and 200-meter low hurdles.
In his junior year at Ohio State, Owens competed in 42 events and won them all, including four in the Big Ten Championships, four in the NCAA Championships, two in the AAU Championships and three at the Olympic Trials.
In Germany, the Nazis portrayed African-Americans as inferior and ridiculed the United States for relying on "black auxiliaries." One German official even complained that the Americans were letting "non-humans, like Owens and other Negro athletes," compete.
But the German people felt otherwise. Crowds of 110,000 cheered him in Berlin's glittering Olympic Stadium and his autograph or picture was sought as he walked the streets.
On Aug. 3, the 5-foot-10, 165-pound Owens won his first final, taking the 100 meters in 10.3, edging out Ralph Metcalfe, also an African-American.
The next day, Owens was almost out of the long jump shortly after qualifying began. He fouled on his first two jumps, though he was stunned when officials counted a practice run down the runway and into the pit as an attempt.
With one jump remaining, Luz Long, a tall, blue-eyed, blond German long jumper who was his stiffest competition, introduced himself. He suggested that Owens make a mark several inches before the takeoff board and jump from there to play it safe. Owens took the advice, and qualified.
In the finals that afternoon, Long's fifth jump matched Owens' 25-10. But Owens leaped 26-3¾ on his next attempt and won the gold medal with a final jump of 26-5½. The first to congratulate the Olympic record holder was Long, who looked like the model Nazi but wasn't.
"It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler," Owens said. "You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Luz Long at that moment. Hitler must have gone crazy watching us embrace. The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II." Owens, though, would continue to correspond with Long's family.
In the 200-meter dash on August 5, Owens won in an Olympic record of 20.7 seconds, beating out Mack Robinson, the older brother of Jackie Robinson.
That was supposed to be the end of Owens' Olympic participation. But from out of the blue, Owens and Metcalfe replaced Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, the only Jews on the U.S. track team, on the 4x100-meter relay.
The rumor was that the Nazi hierarchy had asked U.S. officials not to humiliate Germany further by using two Jews to add to the gold medals the African-Americans already had won. Glickman blamed U.S. Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage for acquiescing to the Nazis.
On August 9, the 4x100 relay team, with Owens running leadoff, won by 15 yards and its world-record time of 39.8 seconds would last 20 years. Upon Owens' return to New York and a ticker-tape parade, he had to ride the freight elevator to a reception in his honor at the Waldorf-Astoria. He was treated as a kind of curiosity. When endorsements didn't come his way, he made money by, among other activities, running against horses and dogs.
"People said it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do?" Owens said. "I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals."
Not until the fifties did he achieve financial security, becoming a public speaker for corporations and opening a public-relations firm.
In a 1950 Associated Press poll, he was voted the greatest track and field star for the first half of century, outpolling Jim Thorpe by almost three to one.
In 1976, President Ford presented Owens with the Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the U.S. can bestow upon a civilian.
Owens, a-pack-a-day smoker for 35 years, died of lung cancer at age 66 on March 31, 1980 in Tucson, Ariz.
Four years later, a street in Berlin was renamed in his honor.
A decade after his death, President Bush posthumously awarded Owens the Congressional Medal of Honor. Bush called his victories in Berlin "an unrivaled athletic triumph, but more than that, a triumph for all humanity."
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Training Schedule for week starting on 28th July 2008
Dear all,
Training schedule for this week:
Tuesday
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: North Vista
Friday
Cancelled due to school event
-Coach
Training schedule for this week:
Tuesday
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: North Vista
Friday
Cancelled due to school event
-Coach
Training Conducted Today (27th July 2008)
Dear all,
Training conducted today:
8.5km Run - Nicholas
150m (Variating Speed Workout)
400m workout (Jian Da)
- Coach
Training conducted today:
8.5km Run - Nicholas
150m (Variating Speed Workout)
400m workout (Jian Da)
- Coach
Friday, July 25, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Training conducted today (22nd July 2008)
Dear all,
Training conducted today:
C&R Time
Handball Session
* Extra training: 200m Fartlek
- Coach
Training conducted today:
C&R Time
Handball Session
* Extra training: 200m Fartlek
- Coach
Monday, July 21, 2008
Training conducted today (21st July 2008)
Dear all,
Training conducted today:
Runner's Gym Workout and 5 X 120m workout.
- Coach
Training conducted today:
Runner's Gym Workout and 5 X 120m workout.
- Coach
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Training Schedule for next week
Dear all,
Training schedule for the upcoming week:
21st July 2008
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: North Vista
22nd July 2008
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: North Vista
24th July 2008
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: Macritchie Reservoir
- Coach
Training schedule for the upcoming week:
21st July 2008
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: North Vista
22nd July 2008
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: North Vista
24th July 2008
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: Macritchie Reservoir
- Coach
Friday, July 18, 2008
Good job
Dear all,
I hope you enjoyed the Valley of Death workout with Deyi yesterday. The Deyi students had also shown alot of perseverance by completing the workout. It is not that easy for a first timer. Good job.
- Coach
I hope you enjoyed the Valley of Death workout with Deyi yesterday. The Deyi students had also shown alot of perseverance by completing the workout. It is not that easy for a first timer. Good job.
- Coach
Training conducted on 17th July 2008 (Thursday)
Training conducted:
Valley of Death Workout
- Coach
* I am very happy to hear that the sec ones have done very well in the latest NAPFA tests. Continue to train and I believe you will do eve better next time. Remember to have faith in the training as it has served you well.
Valley of Death Workout
- Coach
* I am very happy to hear that the sec ones have done very well in the latest NAPFA tests. Continue to train and I believe you will do eve better next time. Remember to have faith in the training as it has served you well.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Combined Training Session
Dear all,
There is a combined Training Session with Deyi at Macritchie tomorrow at 3.30pm.
- Coach
There is a combined Training Session with Deyi at Macritchie tomorrow at 3.30pm.
- Coach
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Training conducted today (15th July 2008)
Dear all,
Training conducted today:
600m indoor workout
- Coach
Training conducted today:
600m indoor workout
- Coach
Monday, July 14, 2008
Training matters
Dear all,
Today, I met up with some students at the stadium today. They were waiting for their coach. Their training was at 4.30pm but they were already there at 3.15pm.
The commitment is very strong. Similarly, I would like to see the level of commitment in you. Please attend the training regularly and check the web. If I have the discipline to update the web regularly, you should have the discipline too. Something to share:
Passion comes from the latin word "paserre" which means suffer. passion is what a person is willing to suffer for.
We must cultivate a passion for running. Running should be in our blood and in our soul.
- Coach
Today, I met up with some students at the stadium today. They were waiting for their coach. Their training was at 4.30pm but they were already there at 3.15pm.
The commitment is very strong. Similarly, I would like to see the level of commitment in you. Please attend the training regularly and check the web. If I have the discipline to update the web regularly, you should have the discipline too. Something to share:
Passion comes from the latin word "paserre" which means suffer. passion is what a person is willing to suffer for.
We must cultivate a passion for running. Running should be in our blood and in our soul.
- Coach
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Training Schedule for week starting 14th July 2008
Dear all,
Training Programme for this week:
Monday: 14th July 2008 (3.30pm)
Venue: CCAB Stadium Track
Tuesday: 15th July 2008 (3.30pm)
Venue: North Vista
Thursday: 17th July 2008 (3.30pm) * Combined session with Deyi Sec
Venue: Macritchie Reservoir
- Coach
Training Programme for this week:
Monday: 14th July 2008 (3.30pm)
Venue: CCAB Stadium Track
Tuesday: 15th July 2008 (3.30pm)
Venue: North Vista
Thursday: 17th July 2008 (3.30pm) * Combined session with Deyi Sec
Venue: Macritchie Reservoir
- Coach
Thursday, July 10, 2008
4 X100m Semi-Final Results
Dear all,
Results for 4X100m Semi-Final Results:
61.096 secs
Well done girls. I believe you can even do better next year. Have faith in the training and work hard. Remember...its not easy to make it to the Semis as this is National Level. :)
- Coach
Results for 4X100m Semi-Final Results:
61.096 secs
Well done girls. I believe you can even do better next year. Have faith in the training and work hard. Remember...its not easy to make it to the Semis as this is National Level. :)
- Coach
Well done!
Dear all,
Recently, Nicholas and Hui Teng took part in the National Schools Track and Field. Nicholas did well in the 1500m and clocked 5min 07s. Hui Teng did well too. Clocking 20s for the 100m hurdles.
I believe they will continue to do well and be even stronger next year.
- Coach
Recently, Nicholas and Hui Teng took part in the National Schools Track and Field. Nicholas did well in the 1500m and clocked 5min 07s. Hui Teng did well too. Clocking 20s for the 100m hurdles.
I believe they will continue to do well and be even stronger next year.
- Coach
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Assistance Needed!
Dear all,
I need all of the Sec 4s or Sec 3s to help. Whoever is wearing size 8 to 9 for spikes, please volunteer your spikes.
Thanks.
-Coach
I need all of the Sec 4s or Sec 3s to help. Whoever is wearing size 8 to 9 for spikes, please volunteer your spikes.
Thanks.
-Coach
TEAM NV QUALIFIED FOR SEMI FINALS!!!
Dear all,
Our "C" Girls had qualified for the 4 X 100m Semi Finals! Well done girls! I am very proud of you.
This is the first time they are taking part in the event and had qualified! In fact, the girls, Fraser, Mei Qiu, Shafiqah and Marsyah had only trained with me for 5 months and they had shown to have improved by leaps and bounds.
Most of the competitors are Sec 2s but they had still qualified with a timing of 61.90 seconds!
The next semi finals is on Thursday (10/7/2008). Let's support them!
- Coach
Our "C" Girls had qualified for the 4 X 100m Semi Finals! Well done girls! I am very proud of you.
This is the first time they are taking part in the event and had qualified! In fact, the girls, Fraser, Mei Qiu, Shafiqah and Marsyah had only trained with me for 5 months and they had shown to have improved by leaps and bounds.
Most of the competitors are Sec 2s but they had still qualified with a timing of 61.90 seconds!
The next semi finals is on Thursday (10/7/2008). Let's support them!
- Coach
Monday, July 7, 2008
Results for National Schools Track and Field
Dear all,
Here are the results for the recent National Schools Track and Field Meet:
Bryan Ng Ze Kai[71]
200 Metres
Timing: 00:25.16
100 Metres
Timing: 00:12.56
Bryan Cheng Chun Heng[86]
100 Metres
Timing: 00:16.04
Muhammad Hafiz B Johari[87]
100 Metres
Timing: 00:17.09
Tan Jian Da[90]
200 Metres
Timing: 00:29.74
400 Metres
Timing: 01:10.07
Marsyah Bte Ahmad Sharif[68]
200 Metres
Timing: 00:33.99
400 Metres
Timing: 01:16.67
Well done. Let's train harder and I believe you will do well next year. Have faith in yourself.
- Coach
Here are the results for the recent National Schools Track and Field Meet:
Bryan Ng Ze Kai[71]
200 Metres
Timing: 00:25.16
100 Metres
Timing: 00:12.56
Bryan Cheng Chun Heng[86]
100 Metres
Timing: 00:16.04
Muhammad Hafiz B Johari[87]
100 Metres
Timing: 00:17.09
Tan Jian Da[90]
200 Metres
Timing: 00:29.74
400 Metres
Timing: 01:10.07
Marsyah Bte Ahmad Sharif[68]
200 Metres
Timing: 00:33.99
400 Metres
Timing: 01:16.67
Well done. Let's train harder and I believe you will do well next year. Have faith in yourself.
- Coach
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Congrats to Milk Run winners. Well done!
Dear all,
Today, Nicholas, Ryley, Mr Fazly and myself took part in the milk run. The results are as follows:
Men's Junior (6km)
Nicholas - 22mins ++ (5th Position)
Ryley - 20+ position
Men's Open (9.4km)
Mr Fazly - 32mins ++ (3rd Position)
Myself (Mr Will) - 36 mins (14th-15th Position)
Well done, Nicholas and Ryley!
- Coach
Today, Nicholas, Ryley, Mr Fazly and myself took part in the milk run. The results are as follows:
Men's Junior (6km)
Nicholas - 22mins ++ (5th Position)
Ryley - 20+ position
Men's Open (9.4km)
Mr Fazly - 32mins ++ (3rd Position)
Myself (Mr Will) - 36 mins (14th-15th Position)
Well done, Nicholas and Ryley!
- Coach
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Training conducted today (1st July 2008)
Dear all,
Training conducted today:
Time trial for 100m, 200m, 400m, 1500m, 4X100m
- Coach
Training conducted today:
Time trial for 100m, 200m, 400m, 1500m, 4X100m
- Coach
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