PD Tri 2007
Tuesday nite Cronies.Where's the rest la?
Packing up before the rain...Afraid to get wet...
This $%&^@ italian called me a pussy....during the Run...then he beat me up..fucking Mafia..
Pumped after the finish...
at Sunday, July 29, 2007 0 comments
Deciding between the BLUE pill and the RED PILL
The choice of doing Broga or any long endurance based distance is like taking the BLUE PILL or the RED PILL. Blue Pill takes back to the comfort zone, back to the life"cycle" you'd always have , and erase the glimpse of the future potential you can taste or The Red Pill will allow yourself to see the "truth", to quell the urge of inquisitivity.
We all decide to take the RED PILL....
29kmh+- avg for 110 km.
A lil blur but that's a snake caught hold of a frog.We saw this after our KOM climb during a rest stop. This frog is so determined to survive he grabbed a stem from one of the roots so the snake cant drag him futher...
at Sunday, July 29, 2007 1 comments
Labels: Mind Body Soul
Even though..
Even though you don't know someone or people personally, you feel a bond -- connected to them because you were both out there trying to achieve the same goal.
Even if its the 100th tri's. Your 10,000th kilometer....
Your still out there doing the same thing.
at Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1 comments
Labels: Mind Body Soul
Open Immersion..
i'd like to share this with you in account to my own experience in a way may relate to some of your own experience :
1. Many triathletes train in swimming pools where there is relative order and they can push off the wall everytime. Many, on their first time in the ocean or a large body of water, are completely overwhelmed by the vastness , the fact they can't tell how deep the water is, and the fact there is nothing to grab onto. Putting them with a bunch of very competitive and more experienced athletes is a recipe for disaster.
2. Most people greatly overestimate their swimming skills and endurance. That's human nature, I guess. I see people swim like turtles nonstop for two km in a pool. But put those same people in a lake or sea and they would likely have high anxiety or panic due to the great difference in environments and the chaotic surrounding during race day.
3. Biking and running dont require one to think about the rhythmic type of breathing that lap and open water swimming require. Instilling that rhythm takes lots of practice, more than most budding triathletes who are excellent bikers and runners are willing to commit.
4. Wear a Dark tinted goggle and swim at night or in the evening. This will give that "dark" ambiance while swimming and concentrate on your stroke and breathing.
5. Go take up diving or snorkeling, this will aid in your erratic breathing.
i am not an excellent swimmer by the way, there are whole lot of better ones out there.But i am just willing to share it with you on the fact to practise more when in doubt especially when its your first time.
at Wednesday, July 25, 2007 0 comments
Labels: Training
Port Dickson Triathlon 2007 : MIxed feeling.....and Angry again.
My Sidi's is still wet and i bet my bottom bracket is flooded. It rained so much might as well just wear my tri suit the whole time... and only wear a t-shirt for carbo loading dinner... Swim was smooth 32..bike was 1.11 Run a disappointing 57 so its around 2.40-2.42 +- Nothing spectacular.
The wheel's built is fabulous.Nicely tuned for comfort, climbs and sprints.
I know i am able to kick it better. What the heck..stressful week i have. i deserve a break. Atleast timing was better that i anticipated. (Good timing to Arif and Jason ( watch out! this kid can rock on a Argon18 )
Advice on speed lace : Do not tighten your elastic speed lace too tightly , thinking "OOH its elastic" prior to race day just because you bought it on Saturday.It gave me 2 huge blister and it kinda spoil my run.
(PS - I kept the pain a secret only the apartment mates knew the shit i had to go thru to lace it...)
I can say its one of the most pleasant organised PD Tri i have been SO far.The people i talked to and had fun with..Tuesday Nite Cronies, Chad and Andy's gang, the Jeff and Daniel lim,Alex, Elaine,Phoebe, Jasmine, new tri blogger Raymond Jaja, Azmar + others i have met but too spaced out to remember.
BUT AS YOU CAN SEE , IT MEANS JACK SHIT...
i am going to bed....
at Wednesday, July 25, 2007 0 comments
Labels: Race
No Port Dickson Triathlon Race Report for the next 24 hours.
For the respect to a fellow PCC Rider whom also loved to be remembered as a ERian
(ELITE RUSH - a small cycling/workout group that Zoob and some others
setup.)Zubir who passed away during the PD Triathlon 07.I am speechless and i do not want to say anything on that except that he is a Kick-Ass Cyclist and also a Triathlete.
" The day we stop having risk is the day we stop living"
-- Author unknown --
I believe he did just that
230707 4.00 pm :
...Remembered the words coming from him before the race.. "Its all for fun,good luck to you too"
Rest in peace , May you always have the sun in your face and a tailwind at your back.
at Sunday, July 22, 2007 2 comments
Labels: Mind Body Soul
Here comes PD...
Its been a long week..have not been training much (honest). Just do not know how it will be like for the performance. Guess i just got to tri it out..Bike's tuned up
Got BIKEPRO daniel lim to fix my wheel up. I have decided not to use my deep dish wheel.I'd used my semi-aero wheels instead for i need the acceleration for the gradual slopes on PD.
lets see my estimated timing this time around will be 2hr 57mins.BLEAH!
yeah..lets just ROCK it..
at Saturday, July 21, 2007 0 comments
Labels: Race
Borat's Cultural learning of tour de france.
GREAT SUCCESS!
at Tuesday, July 17, 2007 0 comments
Labels: Humour
Why did you leave me?
T-Mobile TCR :
I know we had just been together for nearly 13 months, but I thought we had a good relationship, and I was really heartbroken last Sunday when waited for you and found that you had gone with that neighbour, that mountain bike. By the way, you left me leaning against a cold hard wall.
I thought I was good to you. I took you out for long rides almost every weekend, and I also took you out during the week as much as I could. We climbed lots of good hills together --- I took you all over the Broga hills, up fraser's , up Peres and Camerons...
Sometimes you wouldn't ride me as much as you wanted, because you had to travel and work and stuff... but you would still come over and lovingly stroke my velvet black handlebar tape, and make your girlfriend jealous by gazing longingly at me while she was talking to you. I thought i treated you right and you always kept my chain oiled and my tires inflated to their full rated pressure.
I know I was a little slow and maybe you wanted to live a more dirty-paced life, but I thought you were OK with that, as you never complained and alway went ahead of me on rides.
Were you scared that I was going to kill us both when we went 65 kmh down a certain hill? Did I frighten you by twitching you from the right side instead of the left? Did I hurt you by riding on bumpy roads? Was my shifting too rough? I thought you were tough enough to handle it, and in any case I always wanted to keep you safe and protected.
Remember the orgasmic thrill of flying up the last hill on a long ride and passing everybody? I thought that was good for both of us. Were you just faking it? If something was wrong, why didn't you tell me what you needed?
Did you meet someone else at Kajang? Is that it? Did you quickly exchange numbers while I was resting at home ?
I just hope that whoever you are with now will treat you right. There are some gurls, out there who seem really nice but who actually just want to take me to some chop shop in Taman megah and rip me apart and sell my pieces. Please, please, stay away from those bikes ! I hope you can find a relationship where you can realize your full potential, and get the things that I could never give you, like climbing Mt Genting in 60 minutes...
I have hardly anything left of you except the your sweat on my top tube. If you change your mind about leaving, I promise i'd take you to 40kmh average..
at Sunday, July 15, 2007 0 comments
Labels: Humour
Sizing up the Competition...
How to Size Up the Competition : The Triathlete.
Tonight, I will begin to explain how you can assess your chances against your triathlete foes.
Clothes Fit
The type and tightness of the tri-wear give you a good indication of the relative confidence of your opponent:
speedo only : If the dude is only wearing speedo's -- ie, -- too large for a 2 piece or tri suit. He knows he's not at the top of his game but he might be good in swim. Plan to destroy this triathlete on the bike.
2 piece kit or tri suit fitting: You don't need me to tell you what this means. This is a person who has earned his physique and has shaved legs too. All you can hope for is that he earned it in the gym, or the swim or he is tri-gay guy.See leg clue.
Loose fitting jersey , but now looks uncomfortably nervous: Oh, that's newbie-tribie with hairy legs doing relay. Don't worry, he's no threat to you.
Sponsor branding: This is complex. Bike or Tri clothes with sponsor branding can mean different things on different people
Full Team branded Tri Suit on a guy with hairy legs: This person read a blog about Triathlon about the valour of triathlon yesterday and watched the Tour De France yesterday too, whereupon he decided to "get into" cycling AND Triathlon. He has money to spend, but no biking skills whatsoever. Pass him at 45 kmh while drinking from your bottle bottoms up...
Full team branded tri suit on a guy with shaved legs: Could mean trouble. He's clearly a phycholis, and cares enough about cycling that he probably rides plenty. Going to have to go to secondary clues: leg definition , evidence of a spare tire, suntan pattern, bike clues but that another story.
Race / Event branding: This is helpful only if you know the circumstances under which the tri-jersey can be obtained. If it's a tri-jersey you can obtain at Taman Megah or DU, it means your opponent likes shopping, or window shopping. If the tri-jersey can only be obtained by finishing -- or worse, winning -- a race, you may have a serious race on your hands.
No branding whatsoever: Hard to determine. This is clearly a guy who is new or likes to go stealth so that you feel that much worse when he rogers you at 45kmh .Again look for secondary clues.
Legs: Evaluate his tan, his hairiness, and his quads and calves.Again Secondary clue with out without sock.A big indicator.
Tan = trouble. But check where the tan starts and ends. If he's tan right up to the bike shorts line but not beyond, and his quads are the tannest part of his body,see arms are a good indicator too then you've got a real cyclist on your hands. If his forehead has a strange tanning pattern on it that suddenly makes sense when he puts on his helmet and glasses, this spells Danger with a capital D.
Shaved legs = serious cyclist. Why do shaved legs matter? Because they mean he's made a commitment to cycling. They also mean he's vain, because the purpose of shaved legs is to increase the visibility of your leg muscle definition.
Leg definition and size: Do check the size and cut of his quads and calves. If he's just cut, you can probably take him on the flats. If he's just big, you can get him on the climbs. If he's both, just try to draft.
Blinkers: NO ONE USE blinker or reflector on a Triathlon.Clearly,he ain't serious.
Bike and accessories clues : Finally, Check on tell tale indicators of torn-off sticker and residual gums at the seat post. If it has high build-up or gum line .Its confirmed your looking at one who had many race numbers.See clue indicator on the helmet also.And if he noticed you checking his bike out, you just snobbishly say this " i thought your saddle rails are carbon fiber..Then walk away"
Blog Indicator: More Race or Event date's then GOOGLE ADSENSE ADVERT! A GOOD SIGN your competitor is resting his legs while exercising his 10 speed shifting fingers.
Note: this article is label under HUMOUR with complete disregard for accuracy or truth, if you still aint grinning yet just click "BACK".
at Wednesday, July 11, 2007 2 comments
Labels: Humour