Ini DIA!! My doggie-tag-alike finisher medal.. so much different from last year medal. The lanyard is yellow and Silkscreen in white.. which is good.. away from the dull conventional France flag tricolore. Oh.. and this year Brooks sponsor the PD tri shirts and so much better than last year rip curl cotton/polyester cheapo shirt.
Alan coming back from his 40km cycling lah. his first tri relay event.. her daughter must be very proud of her daddy. doesnt he look like Lance Armstrong fatty version?This is my second PD tri doing relay. Last year I DNF at the swim. I had very bad flu and cough. Only could swim a little bit and the jet ski kena sapu me back lah.. I am famous!! Lotsa papparazi ready their camera and shoot the way. Great shutter counts!!
People asked me if I am not sick.Will I finish the swim.. hmm.. I do not know. Perhaps 70% I say I would. I am still good at swimming. I had clock more times swimming and cycling altogether I guess. Bukit Jalil is my second home. The lifeguard became my friend. I sent him home at time. Later he even want to borrow money from me because her wife gonna delivered soon. The problem is that time I am living from hand to mouth. That was like ...wow 10 years ago. I guess if I did consistently swim two months before the event last year and not sick.. I would finish it despite not swimming in open sea before. Yea... I am one lazy bastard!!
This year we have two team again. Only that just me and Khoo are from the old batch. Khoo is teaming up with her fitness class instructor Haida and Alan Cantador Velasco. Me, Elaine a.k.a F.F. ( not some Nazi SS Gestapo I assured u ) and her those day TAR college lecturer cum fren now Tang. Tang is a good swimmer and teach swimming.
It was rather surprise that this year Elaine took up running and can't believe she is doing PD tri with me. When I first saw her a few months back I thought she is joining the Elite group- fei mui soon. Now she had a personal mission in life.. to cut off and run passed all the fei mui , fei poh, fei sou and out of shape fat fat yee mah khoo cheh in every races. Oh yes.. she just made a new Public enemy No.1 in races to come. So gear up Miss C., be prepared to feel the pain. Paranoid mode engage. Alan Cantador I thought after married and with his chain-smoking yumseng lifestyle would never enter such event.. or even talking about taking up sports. But that change for him.. biggest surprise is he quit smoking altogether.. good la.. at least u up ur chance of seeing ur daughter married and play lego with grandchild is now more than 875%.. Perhaps Remi Gaillard will award you his second tour de france prank for u..
We arrived at PD. late noon and got ourselves a homestay for rm160.00.. near Malay and chinese cemetery. Hallelujah!! Can't sleep the whole night as also with the others. It is nervous or Jangan Pandang Belakang. I leave it for u to decide lah. Chan as usual gave a very good laugh at the briefing after the carbo-loading session. During the carbo-loading session, saw some pretty chicks in good dress. These are hardcore tri.. the portions of their food on the plate could feed leopard, tiger and elephant. You thinking getting a hardcore tri gf is cheap? Even if they eat mamak also.. your bill might come up to RM40.00 for the few drum sticks, thigh and sotong they swallow. Could start herd your own cow or pig farm at the backyard.
So i slept less than 2 hours and woke up lotsa time in between. my kepala got lotsa things going thru the head.. weird... cant make it stop.. let is flow.. even the sheeps that I am suppose to count is on waiting list for the next two flight. Damn!
So khoo woke up and I guess he didnt sleep well or dint sleep at all. Alan Cantador came out with his jersey ready. Wow.. he slept with it? but forgot to put the helmet on. very dangerous if he met a mad driver in his dream. can't even have time to toss the dice or the mini gasing.
Tang is a little bit concern and nervous seeing her face. But she look cool though. We went to Bangi kopitiam and had durian.. Oh.. no durian.. kopi.. eggs and roti. Tell u man.. really Bangi kopitiam taste like shit.. service also like shit!! Can conclude that... I was in Wangsa Maju Bangi kopitiam twice.. that is it!!
Last year still can see lotsa amateur bike lah.. these years more and more stylo bikes oredi.. My bike has nothing to shout about as compare to the other only that the rider choose to carried extra few gantang of guni flour around his waistline. That really caught the attention of this bike which is the rider!! Now the pure reason why Lance said it is not the bike.
I had races a numbers of run now and getting season to it. But bike race in relay team is my first time.
Therefore I was damn kau nervous. I showed Alan how nervous I was.. heart rate jump from 100 to 108...really gila.. havent start riding yet. So Haida came in and off Alan went. Tang came in strong. I told her before that .. when you come afterward, u just take out the band and I will bent down and take the timing chip from your feet. She asked in childlike way why.. Well, I guess now she understand lah..
I rode off and not knowing how the the first hill and the mini rolling hill gonna be like.. I guess pedal shit hard. worst race in my life so far. I know I will bonk very early. but I know today the courage of men could not fail. Just let the tunnel vision embrace you and inform ur legs this one over hours they have turn their back against Christ and embrace a new God. Yes.. the name is Pedal Hard.. Pedal Hard is your new Messiah!! And the conviction did set in.. But the lungs is working overtime to convince my heart this new religion will be the new saviour.. not until 32km only the heart begin to believe in this new religion. by that time.. the legs begin to loose a bit of it faith in this religion.. but still they question they sanity of it before they could totally abandon this faith.
At km 4, one angmoh was passing me and asked those he pass to draft behind him. That straight road I did draft behind him for like 2km and notice a lady begin to draft behind me too.. damn.. that was good!! I really can feel the lessen wind drag..then until the traffic light.. kapoot!!! have to break away and feel the bloody wind again.. oh.. how I missed that draft.. if only I trained harder and understand that running and cycling training is not the same. Uphill.. tengok jalan and road... breath like leopard chasing..downhill lay low to cut the wind..
So saw one fler pancit and asked want tube or not.. that fler tadak skewer.. so just threw mine one to him.. later found out he is Frank lah.. saw few riders pancit along the way and one sweet gal also pancit making phone call. Saw 5 bikes went up the pickup. So at the water station, those volunteers are very good!! 4 of them was in ready mode to pass me the water.. splash.. two of the water dint make it to my hand and i felt some ice chill cold water showering me. That is the best I can get lah. Mixing 50/50 water 100 plus does not quite work today. It just taste too sweet.. but that is the only hydration stuff I can dispose. hahaha.. i did that for Alan too. I was thinking he would taste the sweetness sweet battling at his throat... ahaha.. we did exchange note after that on this. So when I saw the traffic light the last 4km is quite near.. I just give my last 8% of gas I have lah.. zoom zoom zoom.. and feel so good to see the green mat.. and dismount here sign.. I cant even walked and pissed straight. Bang my bike at the signage.. like a drunkard master walking towards Elaine. No energy to take out the timing chip and band. She had to do it herself..ahaha.. The feet feel like rock.. Wow.. cycling and running training is two different things. Lesson learn from PD tri!! ;P
So off Elaine went lah..I bet that gal gonna speedy one..
Then hor Alan Cantador was back 4 minutes after that. I was rather surprised!! I sayur that fler at km 31.3.. At that rate, I was kira-kira he will be back 8 - 12 minutes after me. I think he got psycho seeing he cutting him despite his early cramp. But good to see him giving all out for the race!!
So Khoo off he went for the running.
As we were waiting, Tang already asked me about the next event. Guess she like it lah. I had never put a single thought about Desaru Tri before.. Now we are going! It is quite fun to do team relay tri.. the ambience is wonderful!!
Then hor I told them that Elaine will sprint to the finishline.. ahaha.. surely she did.. but I didn't tell her the uneven carpet on the grass padang lah.. let her experience it lah..
She did her PB and two thumbs up to her on her effort!!
sHOrtly Khoo also came back and I guess his PB too. Guess his training does help him alot.
Damn proud of all my friends who gave all out for this team relay!!!!!
Alan also very geng, bringing her wife and 4 months old cute daughter along too. Good memory I would say.
So we went for lunch at the same makan makan place last year.. walap kaw kaw and the bill was damn cheap lah!!
A really fun event and I hope to do it again year!!
