Last man standing..
* Mana Sultan of Selangor? Belum sampai lagi ar?
aLl the Lance armstrong-wannabe... cannot fight but must also can look.. Meet Man and Ah Wai from Johor.. cayalah all the way up to join the race.ape ni? repeat?repeat lagi..find 10 spots different from pics above..
Lam is the last man to tackle the hill.. being tail by the sweeper truck..
though he is advise-in-force to naik lori.. I respect lah dia.. at least he determine to do his best and not succumb to pusing balik..
mari tangkap gambar dulu before naik lori..
* Dua bui better play golf...don't kacau the earth pusing..
* Wonder what is he smoking?
* satu banana RM3.oo.. mesti mahal lah.. ini MGB punya mah.. ekekeke.. our fren here too excited to go downhill.. forgot to refill water.. padan muka..
some of this will become char siew.. siew yuk.. bah kut teh... sang yuk pao.. chee chap chok..
Band of braders..and a sister..
tak sampai ke penghujungnye... lori need to detour and catch other fler.. heard being conned still got 4km to go.. but actually 12km more... exercise lah sikit bang...ekeke
mr.. Lim is ready to ride to rendezvous point..All the pics above are leech from few ppl in FB.. hehe... if it happen to be urs.. sorry ler forget to give credit.. will belanja u makan Titi Yong tow foo yea..
Drag myself out of the bed for the Broga ride on 7/11.. Mr. Lam surprisingly called way early in the morning.. that fler first time riding in at event...so very the kancheong.. never quite slept he said..
Got everything ready.. wrote down a nite before stuff to pack and make sure nothing is left behind..
So we met at Kajang en route to Semenyih McD... grab a quick bite and get ourselves ready.. as I was about to fire up my FT2.. Jialat... I look at my two comrades and said.. opps.. I forgot the battery.. :p laid it to charge last nite and forgot about it.. :p so the above photos have to be leech lah..
Drove all the way to Nottingham Uni.. use to be just pass by ania.. so gathered around and met some new friends from the south.. pretty good chat for awhile.. waiting for the Sultan of Selangor to flag us off. I thought we were doing the jantan route ler.. turn out it was the pondan route.
zoom zoom.. Alan try to stay ahead of the pack so that he will be intact with the Peloton. I follow aje and later keep my reserve before I gone busted too early.
So before the Semenyih town.. I cut in thru the Nirwana Memorial Park route and rode few km before heading up the dam slope.. It was a damn slope.. a bloody damn slop I tell u... seeing that route all the way up really psycho kaw kaw..
When I push and met up with Alan half way.. he said.. "tim meong lei chai ar?" Good question Alan.. now Genting Sempah is only for pussy yea. No big deal once u could tackle this. I began to warm up at that time and my body began to charge up to ride the hill.. Damn the gradient is damn torturing.. Never had I anticipate this. I now understand what is like when I was reading the elevation map earlier on. So crank it all up.. the hill is really deceiving.. just when u about to turn and catch the next hills.. there are so many "ada lagi" moments ahead.. damn..for the first time in my life.. with another less than 10% more ride.. I actually stop and push the bike for about 50 metres before continue on..
It was damn tough if you are not season hilly riders. Then later realize there are lotsa ppl turning back.. wondering what is going on? landslide? hmmm.. well.. there are many that gave up not even at the quarter of the race man. at least i saw more than 30 ppls already call it a day. Most likely they are not those ride the hill kind of ppl. Not too long reach the first water station. I drank a bottle and took two to put in my jersey pocket.. took a banana.. and start to ride.. big mistake.. riding down a quite sloppy areas and peeling the banana require a very special skill.. unfortunately I do not possess that.. only able to munch half of the banana and the other slipped off my hand.. arggg....whatever lah..
It was just a small descend only and then some flat and ascend back.. then I could began to feel the sensation in my leg.. time to keep it easy.. not too long another ascend.. saw a guy indeed was having quite a bad cramp.. so pass him the yoko2 and he kept up with me. that ascending part I just zoom down lah.. then as he was level ground with me ..asking what wheelset am I using.. it is steel bearing.. its a cheapo entry level shimano wh500 mate.. he seems like tak caya.. he said he had to pedal very hard downhill to catch me also tak dapat.. while i just cruise down without a pedal... mate.. gravity mate.... look at ur size and my size..
Then I rode on.. cruising at 37 - 42km/h ..and damn finally the cramp set in at one hill.. this is hell man.. remember passing titi all that.. Knowing not too far there will be another few sets of hill coming in.
I was negotiating with myself.. damn u must push this thru.. its not as long as ICR.. this is 116km dude.. by that time already almost 70km...so as I rode on..then suddenly a lorry pass by and asking me wanna naik lorry or not.. hell no..I had come so far. Alan was shouting something like..come lets balik go makan or something like that..and Lam was on the lorry as well. So I rode on.. and later seeing the lorry began to pick up more ppl.. and till before the start of the slope.. a couple was resting at the tree areas .. so the lorry came and ask them .. and they decide to get a lift.. I reach at this point at 78km already.. its 38km to call it a day.. The desire to give up is only 20% ... knowing that I could have many hills up that I need to push my bike due to my cramp. WTF.. more torturing than ICR. So I said to myself.. well.. worst come to worst I will tumpang the next round of lorry if I really gv way. So I pushed myself and my bike up... It was a 5km pushing up the slope..damn.. walked for an hour man.. I took off my bicycle shoe and walked with my socks.. only a few ouch ouch moment kena some stones.. Luckily the weather was cloudy the whole day.
So it kept on repetitive like this lah.. I think at least three big hills to push .. and I think I could have push almost 15km my bike.. many pickup and drivers stopped and psycho me to call it a day.. I insist ler.. So even Elaine thought I got mechanical problem ler.. she wanted to offer me a lift and put my bike in her car. So I said I could go on..
Then it was finally until Lenggeng that left another 20km or so.. I was please.. but damn... there were two more hills I had to push.. and again suffer few more cramps.. it was torturing to push and legs are crampy ...alternating each other while I walked.. jialat.. ignore it.. then Lance's phrase which I stick to the office glass have such huge in imprint in my subsconcious.. Pain is temporary that one.. until I could not give it up..
The last 20km was not easy as well.. At km 15 the wind is not helping and blowing against and side way.. I could even feel that I rode sideway.. ahahaha..
At last.. I saw Broga town... and surprisingly met up with a rider.. Wondering how slow he could had rode.. forgot his name all the way from Ipoh.. I guess we could be the last riders. He will be doing powerman sprint this week...
We finally came in at around 2:35pm.. oredi everyone had packed up..
Really not happy coz as said the cutoff time is 3:00pm mah.. no medal..WTF.. heard that they even simply gave the medals away.. sad sad... we dont deserve this truly.
When in FB asked Elaine why late come in no medal.. only can said coz organizer tak cukup budget only can make 320 pcs.. well..couple with those given up.. they are surely enuff for all ppl..
I kesian ppl come all the way so far to attend this and have to go home dissappointed without medals. This is something the organizers need to look into.
As this is the first time organizing ok lah.. next round still the same.. surely boycott kaw kaw and discourage ppl from joining. Hope they improve.
I am tired now.. nite..
