Sunday Ride

Going up to Summit2

What are these things doing here?

NoLights Louie trying my remedy for a slight fever.

Quote of the day : Oh Sheep !!!!!

Log jumps leading to the lake

While I was typing this post ride report, I was at NoLights

Louie's FB page and I realised that I was designated as

trailmaster for today's ride :-O

Anyway, today's ride was initiated by NoLights Louie

who is suffering from a slight fever and was looking

for a 'simple', easy trail ride just to let her sweat

a bit.... hehehe 'simple' trail ride ha?

So we totally skipped BT and went to ZH Park

by going opposite direction to Belukar Track.

Remember that fallen tree at the trail that leads

to ZH Park? It's still there. So after going under the

bridge, we went right and did the long-ish climb

to ZH Park.

After that, NL Louie complained of having cold

sweat. I know that the remedy to cold sweat is 1 lap

of reverse Flowy Trail. So that was what we did.

We then went to Gangsa and turned left to go to

the 1st Summit. After the climb to the 1st

Summit, NL Louie proclaimed that she is

cured of her cold sweat and so we went to

the 1st stream.

After the 1st stream, we pushed on to the 2nd

summit. When we finally joined the main trail to

the 2nd stream, I proposed to cut the ride short

as it was already 12:30. We went to the mango

trees, didn't bother going to Rooty Trail and

went back to RRR and then Esso to clean

our bikes.

I think this is the longest 'simple' trail ride I

have done :-P

Next week, I won't be able to ride as I am on

24x7 Production support :-(



Saturday Ride

Fallen tree blocking trail to ZH Park

Woke up and the sun is out ... no rains today !

So I took my own sweet time, had breakfast with

my family and cycled slowly to BT.

What a difference a proper breakfast makes :-)

I Climbed RRR and then went to ZH Park.

On the way to ZH Park there is a fallen tree at the usual

trail... had to push my bike to the right and

up up up the trail used for going to Belukar Track.

So if you all are cycling tomorrow, once you clear the

bridge, turn right and climb to ZH instead

of going straight.

I went to the Mandai end of T15, u-turned, did

reverse Flowy Trail and it was inside that trail

when the heavens decided to open up and pour.

I ignored the rain and went to the Summit ...

but while going down from the summit, the rains

started to get even harder and this time the

thunder and lightning seems to be just overhead

... so no choice, I had to cut the ride short :-(

Tomorrow, I'll try again :-)



Saturday Ride

Raining !!! .... but yesterday I had to deal with some

funky management style in the office resulting in me

staying late ... on a Friday! So, I don't really care

about the heavy downpour, I have to have my trail fix

today.

All my mates are waiting for the start of the 12hour

MTB Endurance Race at Tampines so I cycled on the

pavement until I got to Rifle Range Road.

Good thing that today is raining and there's a race

later on in the afternoon. I have the whole of BT/Mandai

Area to myself.

I went to the Mandai end of T15, went reverse Flowy (Sc)

Trail, went to the Summit, took the right trail instead

of the usual, got lost, found my way back, went to the

1st stream, detour to the new Summit, went too Second stream,

u-turned back, went to reverse Rooty Trail and then finally

went to the stairs at BT. Whew! I looked at my watch and ...

amazing! It took me just 3 hours to do all that !!!

Anyway, highlight of the day is when I got lost inside

the trail after the summit. All the time I was doing my

ride it was raining. So you could imagine that it was very

dark in the jungle.... I was doing my mindless pedalling

technique when all of a sudden, I realised the surrounding

area is no longer familiar. What freaked me out was that

I saw a pile of pots inside the jungle! Pots! Those where

you put plants in? Freaky! The atmosphere was good enough

for a B-grade slasher movie... and so whenever faced with this

kind of situation, I turn into Julien Absalon and pedalled

furiously awayyy until I saw the first stream. Ahhhh...

familiar surroundings, nice... tomorrow again :-)