September 24, 2003
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24 Sept
Dropped By Cycleworx
Bernard Chow sms me the evening before, about Tour Of Thailand which is from 21-26 Oct. I doubt I will have any cash left to do it, not to mention the lack of team support, nor the experience to do a stage tour in my first year of riding, plus I will just be back from Powerman. I might think of one next year. It sounds interesting enough for me to call him while at Joyce's and arrange for ride the next morning.
So picking Joyce up at 5am in the morning. Late, coz I woke up and time passes really fast at 4.35am and before it was already 4.55am when I got out of the house but managed to meet up with her at OCBC/Shell then rode up to the YCK Car Park (Roti Prata) to meet the Cycleworx people just in time at 5.15am. It was quite a hard start, but as we were running a bit late, I had to push a bit harder than I normally would with Joyce.
Bernard Chow was nowhere to be seen. Someone commented about how he would be missing 9 out of 10 times... ooops. The group set out soon and just past Upper Seletar where the pace goes up, Joyce gets dropped and I stay behind her. The rest move on but we went our own steady pace (which is still not easy). Along Mandai, I do the pace making, while after Woodlands Rd and Bukit Timah, I felt that maybe I pushed a bit too hard and decided to let Joyce dictate the pace. She was still holding 33-36kmh most of the time, so at times I'd break the wind at about 36-39kmh. We reached the traffic lights just before OCBC and the groups were all sitting around. Joyce had a chat with the guys and Bernard Chow soon came, alone. He was late apparently.
After that I left for home. Avg HR is 132bpm over 1hr 5mins for 35.2km ride with a max of 157bpm. A very short, relatively easy ride.
Pictures
This is a picture of err... Joyce. A bit headless as the photographer couldn't aim properly (or was trying to aim at the Spinning bike). Her kids are on both sides of me. Birthday cake (mine) is in the centre.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/90755799/91642438eXYEWm
This is a better picture of Joyce (fully headed), Esther and myself.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/90755799/91642645CwMESE
And for those of you still planning to travel to Desaru via bumboat... this is Esther passing me my precious carbon bike.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/90755799/91642278wQLnyy
23 Sept
Recovery Spin
Did a recovery spin class in Christina's strength class. Lady two seats next to me kept glancing by my side. Either it's because I was spinning in plasters or because the whole class is working really really hard (especially Christina herself) and I'm like ... whooo.
Avg HR was 119. Muscles still very tight.
Comments (4)
muahhahaha.... i like yr theory about the muscles!! =)
looks like u r a big lance armstrong fan. full postal service attire and bike. what about the oakley shades? ;p
whoa...
man, i cant keep up with yr training schedules with my disappearing acts...
take good care of the wounds and hope they heal real quick
wow! you're quite deep into cycling!!!
I got two bicycles, a racing and a mountain bike but both are already old and will probably get a new one! I never ran in any bicycle competition, but if I do, I am sure I'll do well! I always use cycling for warming up (9km) before football games and warming down (same distance) after football games... Can do this distance between 20 and 30 minutes depending on if I am in a hurry or not! And you sir, you seem to be very organised! *** thumbs up *** 
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