Autumn Issue, 2017

There is an African proverb, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Adam Wong, Billy Choi and Argo Yeung began their triathlon adventures less than two years ago. They enjoy every triathlon race, not because they want to beat their competitors but because, as a team, they get to push their limits even further than they can alone. “There is no win or lose doing a triathlon; together we complete it or we don’t,” said Adam. While Argo and Adam met when they were at secondary school together, Billy knows Adam from their time at HKU. Their brotherhood strengthened during a month-long trip to Tibet before the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was built. “We still joke about our overnight experience on the basic bus to Tibet from Qinghai. It seemed the guy sleeping next to us had never taken a shower in his life. We felt like we couldn’t breathe and we used up the oxygen pillows we had with us originally bought for altitude sickness.” Billy recalled. Noticing his suits were getting tighter, Adam knew he wanted to take up exercise and chose to do the triathlon as the training requires greater discipline than other sports. A few months after starting triathlon training he persuaded Billy and Argo to join him and train to be triathletes too. Triathlon involves swimming, cycling and running in immediate succession over various distances: Junior Triathlon, Sprint Distance, Olympic Distance, Long Course and Ironman, ranging from 100m to 3.8 km for the swimming section, 4km to 180km for the cycling section and 0.8km to 42.195km for the running section (more details here). Working to a disciplined training schedule means Adam, Billy and Argo wake up at 5.30am during weekdays, do triathlon training for 45 minutes, and Adam is then ready to check the news at 7:00am for his work. At weekends, they manage fit in two to three hours of training. “Every day, we share our training records with each other via an app. There’s nowhere to hide,” said Billy, who was a lacrosse player while resident at Ricci Hall. By participating in the triathlon journey together, they have found their individual drive to keep up with their daily training is strengthened. The Triathlon Trio Adam Wong 黃子賢 ( BEcon&Fin 2006) Billy Choi 蔡英泰 ( BEcon&Fin 2005) Argo Yeung 楊文友 ( MSc(EnvMan) 2015) “ There is no win or lose doing a triathlon; together we complete it or we don’t. ” 68 Class Notes