This year's MetaSprint Series Duathlon could serve as the perfect platform and preparation race to get athletes ready for Singapore T100 2024, as SportPlus speaks with three Singapore Athletes
Singapore, 13 March 2024 - With the MetaSprint Series Duathlon beckoning this weekend, and the Singapore T100 2024 looming large next month, SportPlus.sg headed down to one of MetaSport's training sessions, to find out how three of the athletes - Lucas Lim, Aldrich Goh and Sarah Tan, are gearing up for these events.
It promises to be an exciting month of multi-sport action, and both the spirit and energy in the camp is high among those training for these events.
Lucas Lim, who is gearing up for his first T100 event shared: "This will be my first time, so I am super stoked and excited to join and be part of my first experience in an event like this."
"With all endurance sport athletes, we look at the triathlon as the mountain that we want to conquer. This will be my first step into it, even though I'm just running. I think just being with the crowd and just being part of the organisation and being part of the event makes me very happy."
On his experience training with MetaSport and being part of MetaSport's training clinics Lucas feels he has benefited from following a structured program compared to his usual routine.
"I usually train alone, or I train with friends. So it's not very structured, I just train every day. So I think having a structured program, having a coach and him breaking down what each part of the menu is for I think it's super important."
Lim said with a chuckle, "Not something I get all the time so it's a treat. He gave me some notes on my form and I think I've been running for so long I take it for granted. So some bad habits have popped up and it's great that he managed to correct my bad habits."
His teammate, Aldrich Goh, who is a student athlete and has been running since he was 14 years-old, will be racing both the MetaSprint Series Duathlon this weekend as well as the Singapore T100 Standard Duathlon Relay next month shared in Lim's excitement.
"I will be doing both the MetaSprint Series Duathlon individual category this Sunday and the T100 Duathlon Relay with my teammates Lucas Lim and Elizabeth Liau, so I look forward to using the MetaSprint Series Duathlon event as a warm up race and season opener and prep for the T100 relay," shared Goh.
Not a stranger to multi-sport events, Aldrich has been racing in the MetaSprint Series since he was 15 years-old almost every year.
Reflecting on the road ahead and his T100 debut, Goh said: "It's definitely nice to be going back to be doing MetaSprint Duathlon once again and seeing familiar faces."
"For T100 though it would be my first time. Last year I went down to watch the race and was really keen to take part this year. So I'm really glad that I have the opportunity to do so, and definitely looking forward to doing well with my teammates and hopefully come away with some excellent results."
National Cyclist Sarah Tan, who was part of the Standard Duathlon relay teams who represented Team SportPlus in the PTO Asian Open last year, is looking forward to getting back into running and multi-sport events as an individual in 2024.
Every day when I train I put in my 100 per cent because I want to make sure my trainings are worth it. I sacrifice my time after school. Usually I go down to the track right after school and hope that all these workouts will pay off with a PB or qualifying for a really important race.
Said Tan, "I signed up for the Singapore T100 Duathlon Relay (Standard) and I am actually the cyclist for the event. I do run, but I cycle quite a lot."
"Today's session was very welcome as what we did was a track training session, and I am looking forward to going back into Duathlon events as I used to compete quite a bit in Duathlon," shared Tan when asked about her experience training with MetaSport.
When asked what she is looking forward to the most at this year's Singapore T100 event, Tan beamed with excitement: "I really loved the course last year so I am really looking forward to doing the same course again and better my timing from last year."
Is the bike course as challenging as people say it is? Sarah says if you train for the slopes, and just go hard all the way cyclists should be fine.
But don't take our word for it, experience it for yourself. It's still not too late to sign up for the Singapore T100, happening next month from 13-14 April at Marina Bay. So round-up your friends and sign up today at this link.