today's my happiest and proudest moment of year 2012, so far. haha :)
woke up at 4am for the OCBC cycle 2012 "The Challenge" of 39km! had barely 3 hours of sleep but i was really quite excited about it!

bro drove both our bikes to marina square, parked there and we walked over to the F1 grandstand building. my group flagged off at about 6.50am. I waited for close to an hour for the flagoff, but luckily i arrived early so i was at the front of the pack. but sadly, chose the group with the slowest predicted timing (>120min) cos i thought i'll be really slow! so our group was the last to go off for the challenge group..

the start was quite tough and a little squeezy cos of the narrow roads. barely 1km and there were a group of cyclists who fell and jammed up the roads, we almost came to a stop.. but speaking of the start, i was really quite excited and so i zoomed off at about 30km/h (ok not exactly zoom but still).

the first 10km from what i remember was quite draining, with 2 slopes which were really tiring. but after the first 10km, for some reason everything just happened really fast! i was trying to maintain an average speed of about 25km/h on the flat roads.. sometimes i'd fall abit below but sometimes when i see people cycling past me i get this competitive instinct and start chionging too HAHA.

i realised i can be pretty competitive :p but that really helps cos i wouldn't have done so well if not for the competition. it felt SOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD cycling past all the guys!!! i think the event had like 90% males and 10% females. i just felt so cool and so awesome to go past the guys hahaha! the whole experience was so awesomeeeeeee. i dont think i'll ever be able to cycle on an expressway otherwise! and we had the ENTIRE expressway towards ECP to ourselves (the cyclists). how awesome is it to be cycling on the expressway and you look 2m away and see all the cars in the other direction zooming by!

there were even people taking pictures of us from the overhead bridge. i hope the photographers manage to take a photo of me in action i'm really looking forward to it hahahaha. everytime i see a photographer i wanna smile and pose with a peace sign but unfortunately the photographer seems to always look in another direction -.-

anyway i think i did really well and i'm so happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :D 39km in about 90mins! not sure of the exact timing yet but it should be +/- 2 minutes from 90 mins, i kept the timing myself. my average speed is about 26km/h, min 9.2 and max 49.2km/h, speaking of which CYCLING DOWN AN EXPRESSWAY AT 50KM/H IS JUST CRAZY AND SO EXCITING!!!!!!!! of course if i fall it'll be really terrible but i'm safe and i'm really happy!

see you again next year OCBC cycle, this time i'll choose a group with a faster timing so i'll get even more competitive and be able to start off faster. i really think i did v well HAHA my brother thinks so too. i was on a mountain bike (not a road bike which is faster) and started in the slowest group which got delayed.. plus this is my first attempt, i hardly trained on the bike at all! max i did was about 12km with B near my house, but i only did that once before the race. it's especially nice to know that i can do something well if i really tried. im pretty amazed by how i managed to do it, i kept telling myself "you're doing well!!!" and towards the end i really sprinted. felt so good to reach the finishing line!! my bro says "even some guys can't get your timing" :D

someone once asked me what i wanted to be if i didn't have to worry about money/ anything else. i did think about being a cyclist haha

:)
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