October 28, 2003

  • 138km max speed 58.8kmh avg 28.7kmh 5.20am - 12.30pm


    That's what I did for Fri ride, starting with Joyce group consisting of Joyce, Hairul (20 mins late), a friend of Joyce who had cycled from Jurong 40km and myself, then picking up Esther from Macs East Coast before heading up Coastals, Pasir Ris, and back to home with Esther where we topped up drinks (100 Plus and a bottle of UltraFuel for each), then headed out to Sin Min way - late already.  Managed to catch the Thomson group as they passed the road and joined in.  Playing the catching game - this time round I just overtake rather than fall back when someone else falls behind, otherwise will just keep getting dropped from the main pack.  Hit some medium speeds at Mandai and Esther still catching up.  Finally stopped at the Shell station while Esther went on ahead with the main pack.  Regrouped and we headed out to NTU where some of us did a few laps of the race route.  It's a killer - the hills are so tough that by the time we hit the peak, it's not just the psychological factor but physical that I can't push anymore to go the downhill.  In the end we took drinks at Hall 2 canteen (aircon!) and rested before headed back home.


    Went for a spinning class in the evening and drank a full 2.5 litres of water.  Just sweated everything I was taking in.  Totally amazed.  Some more it was a no-intensity recovery class.


    29 Oct (Sat)


    Regretted doing a spinning class after I did it.  I should have been doing a recovery.  Anyway pushed as hard as I could which isn't very hard.