Second Wind Nation

19/06/2020

It's Phase 2, gyms are reopening, you can work out in small groups, YOU GET TO SEE PEOPLE!

Depending on what type of athlete you've been during circuit breaker (https://quiz.secondwindnation.com), you're either rocking a tan from exploring your hood or pasty (and toned!) from all that indoor HIIT.

If you've been avoiding the outdoors, here's a good reason why you should, all while safe distancing and masked up ☀️

Vitamin D helps build stronger bones and build our immune system. Best to get this vitamin through natural sources with some recipes below!

12/06/2020

Cabin fever at home? Shake up your routine with these methods to overcome cabin fever!

We'll be bringing you more workouts as well to help you get into this. Stay tuned!

05/06/2020

As the circuit breaker ends, most of us may still be stuck at home. How do we stay active at home without worrying about wearing a mask when we go out for a run?

Find out more about home cardio:

Stuck indoors during the pandemic? These are some simple stay at home cardio exercises to incorporate into your fitness regime to sweat it out!

20/04/2020

🚨 New series alert! We're going to teach you how you can be your own strength and conditioning coach (as much as that's possible).

🤔 Have something you want to learn about? Drop us your questions!

08/03/2020

Stay fearless in the pursuit of your dreams, for glass ceilings are but a myth 💪
@ Singapore

19/01/2020

Sub-5 1500m, sub-20 5000m, and a sub-40 10,000m all within 7 days at the IVP Track and Field Championships.
🥇🥇🥇😮

17/01/2020

Quick trivia: How many Vaporflys did you spot in the men’s 10,000m race?😉
Shohib Marican employed a much more decisive racing style in the 10,000m, taking the lead from more than halfway out to clock the only sub-35 time of the night. All the women’s podium finishers went under the previous championship record, but it was Vanessa Lee’s sub-40 result that nabbed new record honours.

🥇 Shohib Marican (NUS) 34:56.01
🥈 Keane Ko (NYP) 35:21.00
🥉 Paxton Hong (NTU) 35:52.27

🥇 Vanessa Lee (NUS) 39:43.78
🥈 Toh Ting Xuan (NUS) 41:03.60
🥉 Nicole Low (NTU) 42:03.44

12/01/2020

The race ain’t over till you cross the line🏁

After trailing the leader for most of the IVP 5000m race, Shohib Marican blasted past the leader in the final 150m with a blistering 65s final lap.

Not to be daunted by racing against the big boys, POLITE triple champion Selvanther Sivakumar found another gear to narrowly grab the silver right at the end and notch a PB as well.

🥇 Shohib Marican (NUS) 16:47.20
🥈 Selvanther Sivakumar (TP) 16:53.96
🥉 Tan Wei Jie (NTU) 16:54.19

13/12/2019

While we're on about those report cards, here's our A+ memories from the 🤪

10/12/2019

The SEA Games swim meet wrapped yesterday with a double podium finish for the Quah sisters, bringing Team Singapore's medal haul to a record 23 golds.🥇

That's almost half of the 50 gold medals brought back by Singapore athletes as of today!

ICYMI: https://secondwindnation.com/quah-sisters-share-podium-singapore-swimmers-get-record-medal-haul/

CLARK, PHILIPPINES — The Quah sisters thumped to a one-two finish in the 100m butterfly finals yesterday, the last day of the SEA Games swim meet at the New Clark City Aquatics Centre. Ting Wen, who swam 59.62s, took home the gold, piquing defending champion Jing Wen. The silver medallist finished...

10/12/2019

Hurdler Izlyn Zaini bags the bronze medal in the 100m hurdles yet again! 🥉

The last day of athletics continues tonight: catch Eric David Yee as he guns for a medal in tonight's discus competition!

PS: he's not just throwing a giant plate 😂

09/12/2019

When you attempt the distance treble of the marathon, 10,000m and 5,000m, in that order, with barely a day's rest in between...

But to Agus Prayogo, he feels he "has to do (all three)" particularly when he's the nation's top distance runner. With six SEA Games titles to his name, we're not disputing that.

Agus at the 2019 SEA Games:
Marathon 🏆, 10,000m 🥈, 5,000m 5th.

08/12/2019

Imagine seeing your rival clock a Games record – in the qualifying round.

But Veronica Shanti Pereira, who's gone to four SEA Games so far, has learnt to adapt to the pressure and manage her expectations.

Pereira won Singapore Athletics' first medal of the SEA Games yesterday in the 200m.🥉

She will feature in the 100m final at 5:40pm tonight, a rematch against Kristina Knott and Le Tu Chinh from the previous day. Coach Margaret Oh has laid her prediction for the day: a national record.

06/12/2019

It's what's on the inside that counts...🤭 Congratulations to Muhaizar Mohamad for retaining the SEA Games marathon bronze!🥉

06/12/2019

Joseph Schooling successfully defended his SEA Games 100m butterfly title while qualifying for the Olympics at the same time! 🥇🏊‍♂️

ICYMI - a summary of yesterday's and today's swimming performances: https://secondwindnation.com/tzen-wei-beats-schooling-defends-gold/

06/12/2019

Agus Prayogo won silver in his debut SEA Games marathon in 2017.
In 2019, he's now the SEA Games marathon champion🏆 the Indonesian is aiming for the distance treble once again, starting with the 10,000m tomorrow!

The Filipino women made it a 1-2 finish with Christine Hallasgo dethroning reigning champion Mary Joy Tabal.

🥇Agus Prayogo 🇮🇩 2:26:48
🥈Sanchai Namkhet 🇹🇭 2:27:18
🥉Muhaizar Mohamad 🇲🇾 2:33:08

🥇Christine Hallasgo 🇵🇭 2:56:56
🥈Mary Joy Tabal 🇵🇭 2:58:49
🥉Pham Hong Le Thi 🇻🇳 3:02:52

06/12/2019

Joseph Schooling swam a close race with teammate Teong Tzen Wei yesterday at the 50m butterfly finals for an amazing 1-2 Team Singapore finish. 🥇🥈

And Schooling is gunning for an Olympic qualifying time in tonight's 100m butterfly.

05/12/2019

Team Singapore's swimmers did well again at the second day of the SEA Games swim meet, sweeping four golds in the six events tonight.

🥇men's 50m butterfly
🥇women's 4x200m freestyle relay
🥇women's 50m backstroke
🥇women's 200m breaststroke

Congratulations! Stay tuned for more coverage of the 2019 SEA Games 🏃‍♀️🚴‍♂️🏊‍♂️

05/12/2019

Remember Tony Payne, SEA and Thai record holder in the marathon?

He first donned the Thai jersey at the 2018 Asian Games. This year, he competed at the IAAF World Championships.

It's finally the newly-minted Thai's turn for a crack at SEA Games glory. Though he won't get to compete against reigning champion Soh Rui Yong（苏睿勇）, he'll have to contend with the likes of Indonesian powerhouse Agus Prayogo, runner-up behind Soh previously.

Check out our marathon preview stories on Team SG🇸🇬:
Gordon Lim: https://secondwindnation.com/gordon-lim-surprise-sea-games-marathon/
Alvin Loh: https://secondwindnation.com/alvin-loh-yu-ting-sea-games-marathon/
Serena Teoh: https://secondwindnation.com/bouncing-back-from-an-injury-marathoner-serena-teoh-aims-to-finish-strong/

New Zealander Tony Payne may have just gotten Thai citizenship at 29 years old, but he's wasted no time in resetting the Thai and SEA marathon records.

05/12/2019

Winning medals, breaking records? No problem! 😀🏊‍♀️🥇

The Quah siblings put on a strong show at the first day of the SEA Games swim meet. Just in case you missed last night's race, here's a recap.

Quah Jing Wen, Zheng Wen and Ting Wen each struck individual gold on Day 1 of SEA Games swimming, with Games records aplenty and an Olympic qualifier.

05/12/2019

Another silver for multisport in the duathlon mixed relay🥈

The team of Emma Middleditch, Ahmad Arif Ibrahim, Herlene Yu and Nicholas Rachmadi face made it podium no.2 on the last day of the triathlon/duathlon races at Subic Bay.

That's also medal no.2 for Emma and Herlene, who were part of the runner-up team in the triathlon mixed relay on Dec 2.

Duathlon mixed relay results:
🥇 Thailand 🇹🇭
🥈 Singapore 🇸🇬
🥉 Philippines 🇵🇭

📷: SportSG

03/12/2019

3/4 multisport races done at the 2019 SEA Games so far! 🥈 in the triathlon mixed relay; just left with the duathlon mixed relay on Thursday! (A refresher on the slew of fresh faces on the relay squads: https://secondwindnation.com/new-faces-sea-games-mixed-relay-trials/)

🇸🇬 Individual results:
Triathlon
Clement Chow (4th), Wille Loo (5th)
Ethel Zhiyun Lin (4th), Shuwie Chang (10th)

Duathlon
Lam Wai Kit (4th), Gen Lin Foo (10th)
Phoebe Kee (7th), Mok Ying Rong (10th)



Photos: SportSG, Second Wind Nation

03/12/2019

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02/12/2019

Silver behind a team of seasoned elite athletes is not too shabby at all😎 (the eldest athlete on team🇸🇬 is 22, the youngest 17!)

Outrunning the predicted typhoon which is expected to make landfall tomorrow, the 🇸🇬 team of Herlene Natasha Yu, Luke Chua, Emma Middleditch and Bryce Chong were always in medal contention from the get-go.

Even individual triathlon champion John Chicano identified the Singaporeans as the ones to watch in the relay after his win yesterday😉 (https://secondwindnation.com/john-chicano-kim-mangrobang-sea-games-triathlon-champions/)

02/12/2019

"Teamwork makes the dream work" didn't just apply to the Filipino athletes yesterday 🏃🏃‍♀️ The home team seeks to channel that same energy in the mixed triathlon relay later at 3pm in their bid to claim the individual and relay triathlon titles.

John Leerams Chicano, who is anchoring the 🇵🇭 relay, has his eye out for a certain team of younger athletes dedicated to the shorter format. ICYMI: https://secondwindnation.com/john-chicano-kim-mangrobang-sea-games-triathlon-champions/

01/12/2019

John Leerams Chicano and Kim Mangrobang continued Philippines' dominance in the triathlon as the Filipinos went 1-2 in the event for the second time in a row🏆🏆

Fun fact: At least half of the medalists wore the Nike Vaporfly Next % shoes.

John Chicano and Kim Mangrobang nab the first gold medals for host country Philippines in the 2019 SEA Games triathlon held in Subic Bay.

01/12/2019

Kim Mangrobang and John Chicano bring home Philippines' first gold medals of the SEA Games! As they say, laban Filipinas🇵🇭🥇🥇

01/12/2019

🇵🇭🥇 John Leerams Chicano just grabbed host country Philippines' first SEA Games gold medal. Here's how national coach Melvin Fausto introduced him to the sport of triathlon.

SEA Games silver medalist John Chicano fell into the triathlon by accident, but it is out of choice that he pursues it competitively – to feed his family.

30/11/2019

Mid-race cramps and missing hydration bottles did not stop Soh Rui Yong from making it three wins in a row 🏆 🏆🏆 and Sharon Tan takes home her first Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon title!

“Don't be a p***y, you can take the pain,” Soh Rui Yong told himself as his left hamstring and quads started cramping up from the 30km mark during the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon.