Singapore Duathlon 2006

wee! The event is over... East coast park was a mess on this sunday morning.. The event was flagged off 8.30am this morning with the kids event. Our future talent pit themselves out in 2 events, cycling and running. Some of these kids were amazing, they probably inherited from the genes of their parents, being good running and cyclist is not always easy to achieve. In fact, many runners, can't cycle fast, cyclist can't run fast.
On this day, alot os farmiliar faces surfaced. I saw my sispec sarge. It seems his battalion is being forced on this lazy sunday to compete in this event. I can see their reluctance, but when you are in army, you have to listen to your boss. 9.15.am, I completed my quick warmup and further bumped into a few friends at the briefing point. As usual, these people are energetic and had done so many tris, bis and dua before me! I have my hats off for these people.
The horned sounded promptly at 9.30. Everyone wanted a good position and try to fill every space in front. It's the hot zone, where you see serious faces in contrast to the people at the rear, chatting and doing laces at the final hour. I was sandwiched somewhere in the middle. I think it's a race which wears people out by time, by standing in front doesn't give you any additional benefit unless it's a sprint event. My first 10 kilos went smooth. Infact, too smooth for my liking. I was running 90% of my heart rate, 80% should be better. I came into the bike transition after 43 mins of running. Lost and unable to find my bike, I went one round other people's bike rack.
Losing 30-40 seconds in that confusion.
The wind was coming in all directions, and it's pretty hard to negotiate speed regulation on the bike leg. Lanes were cramp due to the amount of cyclist. The latter cause more accidents than usual. There were some horrible sight. Imagine crashing at 30+kmph into a rock! OUCH!!
Ang mos think they were very fast, shouting very rudely and scolding slower people in loud babaric manner. Yet I don't know why people still suck up to these suppose to be "higher class" people? Some people perceptions are terrible. I came back in an hour, giving my an average of 36kmph. Slipped my shoe on again, and began the final run. Just moving out of the transition area, I feel my legs weigh a tonne! With persuasion, it hardly moves. This time I know I am WASTED! I do not have enough fuel/food intake for the race. Infact, the last night I should be eating every hour to load on carbs. But I was so busy I missed my meals. This time I knew i will suffer. I ran a crawling pace. 5km in 30 mins. I see people just overtook me like no one's business. For every person, I just feel worse!
On the return leg, with cheers from the crowd and friends I decided to spent all the energy left and sprint to the finish line. It was a wonderful feeling completing the event. I did 2hr 11mins in total. Not that good, but aint that bad either!
My good friends(Vic and sharon) were doing the relay, kudos to them taking part in the event! Everyone today is a winner. It takes courage to join such an event. It's an equivalent to marathons. Kudos to all!


1/3, was pushin very hard on the run..

2/3, bike leg was the time to relax, recharge!

final 1/3, torturous run!









WINNERS! =)