October 7, 2003

• Email from Bernard Chow to group:

  
  

  "The first thing that came to my mind was "thank God we were alive" when I looked around and saw Bernard S able to get up and walk and Lawrence (the guy who had to avoid my bike returning to earth under gravitational acceleration).

  
  

  After I downloaded the riding data from my Polar, I was more than happy that none the worse happened to us.  The value where the speed graph peaked, then suddenly dropped to zero, registered 43.2kmh!   Yes, that's the speed i merged with Bernard S. and fortunately it wasn't an inelastic collision although some my decelerative energy was absorbed by Bernard S. as my rear wheel hit him in a desperate attempt to bunny-hop to over him.  It was to fast to avoid by veering, nor enough time to brake. (now you get a clue how wild bunny came about...heh heh)

  
  

  Thanks mate...my wrist is very much better.  Although I flew like superman, the landing could have been better.. ouch!.....haha!  and as L.A. says....'It's not about my bike'

  
  

  And finally....always wear those helmets & gloves....and watch out for each other."

  
  

  I'm still in office.  Bummer.  Well actually it's not that bad.  We're just sitting around waiting for things to happen.  In the meantime I'm doing like analysis of the KL Tri timings, which are out: http://www.triathlonmalaysia.com/TriMsia/100plus/race_result.htm

  
  

  Trying to figure out things between the swim and the cycle leg, how did I really fare.  I'm still a bit confused about my '10th' ranking on the bike run when if I add up the swim (6th) and cycle time (10th), our combined is actually third into the transition.

  
  

  Duh?

  
  

  Also based on timing, I finally know who I worked with in the final two laps - Kohing Bin Antak (number 217), as he came in 3 secs after our swim+run timing.  The next group of 6 riders came in more than a min and half - these were the guys who went an extra loop.

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