Why being a triathlete can make you deaf

It was a minor mir­a­cle I attended (‘attended’ har, not ‘take part’) the Osim Sin­ga­pore Triathlon at East Coast Park last week­end. It’s Sat­ur­day morn­ing 8am, and I’m at the beach, bak­ing in the sun, get­ting really, really grumpy when I realise part of the rea­son for my being unhappy.

There’s some­thing about Sin­ga­porean event organ­is­ers that makes them want to put lotsa lotsa loud speak­ers all over wher­ever they hold the event. Worse, they like to have dif­fer­ent noises com­ing out from the dif­fer­ent speakers.

Check out the din, NEA. It’s scary:

That said, I think the triathlon is a very good sport. It’s one of those things which you don’t need to learn too much of to be a part of. And to see so many peo­ple tak­ing part in it is heartening.

Also, despite the seem­ingly messy organ­i­sa­tion of the event on Sat­ur­day, the vol­un­teers from the Triathlon Asso­ci­a­tion of Sin­ga­pore did a ster­ling job try­ing to put every­thing together. And to Ter­ence, one of the very, very help­ful peo­ple there, I will try the triathlon one day, when I’m afforded a lit­tle more time.

Sand­cas­tle! Wheeeeee!

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