#178 : Saturday Ride

StairRider Deck is getting addicted to this

"No-Stop" long rides. Friday night and he has

already sms'd me that he wants the kind of riding

we did last Saturday. Actually, I was feeling

weak ... but hey, I won't be a mountain bike

"fanatic" if I let a small thing like flu to stop

me from riding today LOL!

Anyway, today Roadie Rio was not around because

he had to take some all important beauty rest as he

will be accompanying Fast Paolo to JB tomorrow

on a MTB Jamboree. Fast Paolo is getting addicted

to these jamborees as of late. Last week he just did

that Muar Jamboree.

If I am a 'fanatic' Fast Paolo should be labelled as a

'lunatic' as he will be cycling from Pasir Ris to the

Woodlands checkpoint where he will meet Roadie

Rio and the other guys (who also will be cycling

to get there) and they will all cycle to the race start.

They will then race for 40km, all off-road and

afterwards they will cycle back home. Ahhhh ...

I am not worthy!

Ok, enough about that. Today's ride started from

Balestier. Yes, Balestier! That's because both SR Deck

and I had breakfast at our respective homes. So from

Balestier, we cycled to the BT Visitor Centre, went

to Zhong Hua, Rooty Trail, Personal Challenge,

T15, Reverse Flowy Trail, Gangsa, Summit

and ended at the Mango Trees.

Last week, our timing from Visitor Centre up to

the mango trees was 2hrs 15mins. Today, we started

timing from Rifle Range Road entrance and we covered

a longer distance but we still clocked 2hrs 15mins.

We were faster today... but, it didn't feel like it.

We were complaining of being exhausted and

we were having aches and pains whereas last week

everything was fine.

Must be the hot weather today?

For tomorrow, I will be taking it easy

as I have learned my lesson last week.

If you see an uncle on a red On-One Inbred,

setting up cameras inside the jungle and filming

himself, that would be me! Do say Hi and

don't run over my cameras :-)