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 :-)