My vacation is over!! Back to work as if nothing had happened during the weekend. Today, I smiled weakly, walked painfully, doing work unsincerely becoz im not in the office mentally.. I think i left my mind in langkawi, forgot to bring it back.. My colleague tak tau wat i did last weekend..Toughest weekend of my days..
28th Feb - Ironman Langkawi
Days of training & preparation, finally the day came.. 3.8k swim - 180k bike - 42.2k run.. who ever invented this must be laughing evilly to see us all suffer for this. The day started with 1 lap swim. My first half was 47mins, damn this as I target 1hr30mins.. this is more than that.. eventually, the return lap was much faster, totalling to 1hr 27mins.. good..
Then, biking part was horrible. up & down, left & right.. total lap of 5.. most of us got confused of the route. I did badly in biking itself.. average at 26.7km/hr.. this is something that i can improve the next time.. maybe it was the bike setting as the seat was too low, i felt like cramping throughout the 2nd lap onwards.. or maybe it was the headwind at the airport.. or maybe it was the hills.. The bike section was tougher than last year (according to some IM).. or maybe its just me being undertrained for the biking session.. Note : to improve on biking next IM.
MP3 was not allowed at all, but i still used them. during the biking leg, i heard "Fong!! mintak powergel!!!" The voice was familiar, I turned my head & saw Dino from behind. Automatically i tore my unused powergel & passed it to him. He was chasing Wong infront.. before dat,i also heard some loud scream "Yeah!!!".. it was Abu who potong me during the first lap itself..he was real fast at average 31.3km/hr..
Finally, after 6hr44min, I went to the running leg. Transition was smooth, I thought so until I saw my transition timing showing 6mins.. ??? 6 min, dats very long transition.. Then I ran & ran like org gila.. coz 42.2km was some distance that i had not covered during my training.. this is going to be a loooooonnngg run. Moreover, i hate running alot.. first 10 k, 2nd & 3rd 10k was consistent at 1hr10min as well. This is good, i target to finish sub 5. however last 12k was slow although i felt like pushing more the last 10k.. total time was 5hr12min.. I paced with many runners, koheng, jacqy from spore, navy, en.razak at the last lap.. the run was 5 laps. Organizer purposely did dat to torture us...
Last few km was sprinting to the finishing line.. phew.. time shows 13:48.. hehe.. dat was my time.. proudly i told my friends, tapi rupanye kena tolak another 15 mins becoz we started later than the pros.. so, officially finished at 13:33, haha.. appreciate the supporters & fellow atheletes as well as they gave us most of the courage during the race...
28th Feb - Ironman Langkawi
Days of training & preparation, finally the day came.. 3.8k swim - 180k bike - 42.2k run.. who ever invented this must be laughing evilly to see us all suffer for this. The day started with 1 lap swim. My first half was 47mins, damn this as I target 1hr30mins.. this is more than that.. eventually, the return lap was much faster, totalling to 1hr 27mins.. good..
Then, biking part was horrible. up & down, left & right.. total lap of 5.. most of us got confused of the route. I did badly in biking itself.. average at 26.7km/hr.. this is something that i can improve the next time.. maybe it was the bike setting as the seat was too low, i felt like cramping throughout the 2nd lap onwards.. or maybe it was the headwind at the airport.. or maybe it was the hills.. The bike section was tougher than last year (according to some IM).. or maybe its just me being undertrained for the biking session.. Note : to improve on biking next IM.
MP3 was not allowed at all, but i still used them. during the biking leg, i heard "Fong!! mintak powergel!!!" The voice was familiar, I turned my head & saw Dino from behind. Automatically i tore my unused powergel & passed it to him. He was chasing Wong infront.. before dat,i also heard some loud scream "Yeah!!!".. it was Abu who potong me during the first lap itself..he was real fast at average 31.3km/hr..
Finally, after 6hr44min, I went to the running leg. Transition was smooth, I thought so until I saw my transition timing showing 6mins.. ??? 6 min, dats very long transition.. Then I ran & ran like org gila.. coz 42.2km was some distance that i had not covered during my training.. this is going to be a loooooonnngg run. Moreover, i hate running alot.. first 10 k, 2nd & 3rd 10k was consistent at 1hr10min as well. This is good, i target to finish sub 5. however last 12k was slow although i felt like pushing more the last 10k.. total time was 5hr12min.. I paced with many runners, koheng, jacqy from spore, navy, en.razak at the last lap.. the run was 5 laps. Organizer purposely did dat to torture us...
Last few km was sprinting to the finishing line.. phew.. time shows 13:48.. hehe.. dat was my time.. proudly i told my friends, tapi rupanye kena tolak another 15 mins becoz we started later than the pros.. so, officially finished at 13:33, haha.. appreciate the supporters & fellow atheletes as well as they gave us most of the courage during the race...
p/s: race took me 13hr33 min, tapi i slept the next day for 13 hrs gak.. it is equilibrium
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