Monday, June 2, 2008
♥ Bike Rally 2008
For the first time in my life, i did something so crazy!
cycling 128km is no joke.
ECP to NTU was still fine, but after that it's all up to one's mental. the route from kranji to yishun was freaking torturous! the no. of upslopes was disgusting.
i'm thankful my mental strength was still there, although not very strong but enough to last me the entire event.
kept telling myself i'll board the bus at next checkpoint, but each time i continued my crazy journey. the only point whereby i reallly couldn't continue cuz i felt like sleeping was that freaking long stretch at tampines. the gradual upslope was killing everyone so most of us were walking and pushing our bikes. i felt like i was sleep walking with my bike, in fact i was kinda waiting for the lorry and the bus to catch up so they could load me on the bus. =( my mental strength was at my lowest already... till a point i had to keep talking to myself to stay awake...
BUT BUT BUT, jiade and jasper came to my rescue with redbull! wahahaha. i really din wanna give up cuz i was 5km away from checkpoint 6 which was changi beach carpark! and jiade was like saying ' eh u rest here lah, the lorry is coming!' after hearing that i chiong all the way to the checkpoint. madness!!! but i still did it. =)
was really really happy when i got there cuz after that, i just needa make my way back to ECP (another 10+ km only larh HURR!!) and i did not need to worry abt being swept by the lorry and the bus. haha! i tried not to cross the finishing line with the last safety cyclist but in the end it still happened. so i'm officially the last cyclist to complete the entire route. *cheers! * claps! *weeEe!
many thanks to ivy and zing for pulling me along the way, although u 2 cycled damn far infront.
many thanks to sher, aaron, sinyee and weiquan for joining this event tgt and get our ass hurt like mad. hope u guys enjoyed too although we din really cycled tgt along the way. but it was really a test of our limits.
once in a lifetime, why not?
if we are not going to do it now, i dun think there'll be another time. =)
anyway... the next time if i ever suggest joining bike rally again, PLEASE SCOLD ME!
result of the event: aching butt, cui-ed kneecaps and ankle, sore arms and palms ( i dun feel my arms and legs anymore. they seemed detached from my body.)
Total time taken: close to 11 hours.
but still, i'm a proud finisher of bike rally 08! =)
*pics to be uploaded soon.
p/s: well done 17th comm. =) it's already ur last event if u realised.. hahha. enjoy ur remaining days tgt ya? proud of u all!
cycling 128km is no joke.
ECP to NTU was still fine, but after that it's all up to one's mental. the route from kranji to yishun was freaking torturous! the no. of upslopes was disgusting.
i'm thankful my mental strength was still there, although not very strong but enough to last me the entire event.
kept telling myself i'll board the bus at next checkpoint, but each time i continued my crazy journey. the only point whereby i reallly couldn't continue cuz i felt like sleeping was that freaking long stretch at tampines. the gradual upslope was killing everyone so most of us were walking and pushing our bikes. i felt like i was sleep walking with my bike, in fact i was kinda waiting for the lorry and the bus to catch up so they could load me on the bus. =( my mental strength was at my lowest already... till a point i had to keep talking to myself to stay awake...
BUT BUT BUT, jiade and jasper came to my rescue with redbull! wahahaha. i really din wanna give up cuz i was 5km away from checkpoint 6 which was changi beach carpark! and jiade was like saying ' eh u rest here lah, the lorry is coming!' after hearing that i chiong all the way to the checkpoint. madness!!! but i still did it. =)
was really really happy when i got there cuz after that, i just needa make my way back to ECP (another 10+ km only larh HURR!!) and i did not need to worry abt being swept by the lorry and the bus. haha! i tried not to cross the finishing line with the last safety cyclist but in the end it still happened. so i'm officially the last cyclist to complete the entire route. *cheers! * claps! *weeEe!
many thanks to ivy and zing for pulling me along the way, although u 2 cycled damn far infront.
many thanks to sher, aaron, sinyee and weiquan for joining this event tgt and get our ass hurt like mad. hope u guys enjoyed too although we din really cycled tgt along the way. but it was really a test of our limits.
once in a lifetime, why not?
if we are not going to do it now, i dun think there'll be another time. =)
anyway... the next time if i ever suggest joining bike rally again, PLEASE SCOLD ME!
result of the event: aching butt, cui-ed kneecaps and ankle, sore arms and palms ( i dun feel my arms and legs anymore. they seemed detached from my body.)
Total time taken: close to 11 hours.
but still, i'm a proud finisher of bike rally 08! =)
*pics to be uploaded soon.
p/s: well done 17th comm. =) it's already ur last event if u realised.. hahha. enjoy ur remaining days tgt ya? proud of u all!