Thursday, May 31, 2007
Well, i woke up pretty early that day and got to realise that it rained the night before and again my legs were wet.:( as they were leaning to the tent. Despite the stuffy night around 9pm, the weather changed seriously faster than i expected it to be. Haiz...the weather just dun stand to our side or my side and in addition i got to sleep with that Dirty Alien....zzzzz...
After washed up, we made our way to the cafe as usual to have our breakfast and at the same time, prepare ourselves for the incoming 52km cycle. But but but, before that we indeed had alot of entertainments like
It's really funny and cools the tension ambience in the cafe....hahah.....our class simply ROX!!
Our class then again separate into 2 groups this time and board 2 bus which brought all of us to somewhere near a beach. The bus ride was long and most of us managed to get a power nap before we reached our destination. We were gathered at the beach for a briefing before lining up to get a helmet each and ready to set off once Mr Goh gave us the signal. I was fast enough to kope a GT bike, which i guessed might be a better bike among other bikes the organisers had. As jumped up the seat, I'm ready to go.....
We had quite a good starting as no one had any break down of the bike in term of the chains or any other parts of bicycle. The first route was estimated 12km, it was tiring and those who dun really cycle that well, suffered a lot...Me as an amateur cyclist, the route was okay not for the pain started in my ass. haha......We cycled passed forests, farms and houses too, the scenes were beautiful except for the deforestation occurred there. Being jokers in the level, all of us waved to the people that we cycled passed and hoped to see them waving back so as to achieve our target! it's super lame but fun! Yea....
a photo of ziao, in the middle of the road as we stopped over to have a drink. Jus love his helmet! :P
Our first stop was a enclosure beside a big house. Everyone stopped over lining our bikes to a side. A small bread was given and a toilet break too.(er, for toilet breaks, we merely find some place remote and that's our toilet!I think girls might had a hard time finding one. haha)
There was a small shop selling tidbits and drinks, i guess they had predicted our arrival and prepared lots of isotonic drinks which most of us bought it to quench our thirst as well replenishing the loss of salt through perspiration.
We had our lunch at the second stop beside a wooden house, under a tree. There, a pack of food was distributed to each and everyone of us together with an apple! haha......After finishing the food, i managed to "steal" a few more apples for myself......coz an apple a day, keeps doctors away, more apples, no doctors at all.:P
Actually during the second parts of the journey,minor accidents and injuries like cramps, abrasions came in. For our class, the victim was someone u seriously dun expect to be, MELVIN! Omg.....but he was able to complete till the end of the second part.
Melvin behind me
A briefing ends my Mr goh again marks the start of third part of the journey and also the starting of multiple up and down slopes. This part, we had a lot of difficulties overcoming up slopes but having fun for the down slopes(but must be careful of the speed of the front raider)
This section, i was totally exhausted and sad to see some main stream people started loading up the life-saving buses.( i'm sad becoz they look perfectly alright lor) Also, our good Melvin started to have multiple cramps, soon he became the last guy in the cycling group.
I did not see him till at the 3rd stop when everyone cycled back and all of us were excited to see Melvin's appearance which i think had that scene had disappointed our class. Melvin and Wenbo came down from the bus with a moody face. We can expected any other people in our class to give up other than Melvin, coz he always had the never say die mentality, in class and also in sports.
The whole cycling journey ended with a super up slope where 98% of all the cyclist on that day came down and pushed the bike up. hmm.....for this, I'm quite proud of our class as the 2% of those who never push their bike up came from our class! hahaha...yea....that's the Sports Class Spirit!
::5/31/2007 08:22:00 PM