malacca and back

From left: Vivky, Daniel, Edwin, Ah tan, Ronnie Yap, Daniel Loy, JUD, Ah peng, me, Bogay, Tiboo












Thats my team coach TIBOO fixing up the bikes on the rack















my boss- ronnie yap and his GALANT LANCER

hahah only 4 hrs of slp day b4 and must drive to malacca....
poor guy... can u imagine if i wasn't at the side blabbering nonsense to him... he could have just dozed off man






Breadfast at CLEMENTI
thats Daniel and Nakata at the backgrd




















Daniel is a clerk in the army... can you believe it... fighting fit clerk who can trash all the officers in running and of cos cycling









ROAD TO MALACCA









TUAS really empty on SAT morn man








if army is good in one thing, is teaching man how to organise trips
this is our convoy movement and it really helps man... trust me when there are 5 vehicles moving at 130km/h thru the highway.... its good to have a plan on the movement of the vehicles... so at least u know whr everyone is

we communicate thru walkie talkie and army qoutes are used like:

"say again over"

" hello bogay this is steven do you read me over"

" Bogay send"

hahaha COOL!

















The 2 stalions on the Hyundai
DAMOCLES 2006 (mine) and DAMOCLES 2005 (BOGAY)



























PEE break


STAND BY CAR




















the place we stayed for the night











3 bedrooms apartment style....
quite cosy i must say even though we did not do much things in the room














trg ride in the afternoon.



















singapore teams:
schroders and cycleworx












there we go!















Thats singapore no. 1 cyclist JUD
















dinner at a hawker...
wah food there really oily man....
i realise as u grow older...
no matter wat happens....
whether its a job or tmr is your wedding or race for that matter
stomach comes first

the wonder thr's a saying," a hungry man is an angry man



i realise sth... i don't sweat a lot compared to them
i need to prove "SOMEONE" that cyclists sweat a lot
sth i can't explain for that matter






daniel really sweats a lot man... even though he is wearing singlet and bums...he really looks like he is bathing

his noodles really got extra salt

and ya, vick is real picky bout food... food not nice... don't eat, no durian... no osyters



k this shows i am normal












really a spread...

i really feel like a family as we pass the food around


ate lots of food....

there were osyters, carrot cake, satay, sting ray, sambal prawns, wanton mee, porriage,
doesn't look like we have race tmr man

end of it all....



look at the mess 12 ppl left behind




















back to serious business man... team tactics and strategies talk at night
i was quite nervous after the talk man...

it seems that each of the the malaysian teams have 20+ riders with them... which really outnumber us... weren't e easy with only me, dan, darrel and jud fighting in the front.

team talk has nv been more up tight and nerve breaking
my first overseas race!

k for those who don't know much bout cycling... there are many diff roles in a team...
there is team leader.... climber.... sprinter.... domestic helper etc.

the game is played this way... each age cath (ie. 20-30, 30-40, 40-50, veteran, and ladies)will have 2 participants from the team

best timing from each cath will be added up to give overall time, and of cos the lowest timin of the team wins

and of cos the most challenging cath will be 20-30 age grp.
our team only has 4 of us....

and as i am the most inexperienced one... i was given the role of domestic helper....
give my wheel if captain's wheel punctured, block JUD and dan from wind.... chase after an opponent when team capt ask me to.
so basically i will nv win, will just help the rest to win

Tiboo warned me not to be so aggressive during the race as the malaysians may just end up using dirty tricks on me

















and shit... it rained in the morning...
damn... wet grd... really not to our advantage man.

some of the photos of us getting ready the vehicle to move off to the start pt
























no photos for the race itself yet... but was real thrilling

75 km in total
which include 25 km rollin start

rolling start means that all the cyclists will cycle behind a police car....
yeah it seems easy... but sometimes the car will just speed up and slow down... this yo yo effect really breaks our momentum...
then the whistle blow....

and the real race begins

from the start... we were sprinting already man....

i nealy died after first few slopes....
trying hard to catch up with darrel, dan and jud...

there were many waves of attack from the various teams as expected...

i was real impressed with the malaysians....
they made multiple waves of attack... pulling and pulling...trying hard to break away from the pack.... breaking the whole pelethon(260 riders) to 4-5 parts


some part of the race... i was really gasping my breath...had to drink water as i can feel lack of blood flow into the brain .... shag man... thats when lots of accidents occur... there were lots of accidents... one of the singpore rider i heard fell into a pot hole and flew like superman....


it took me a long time to adapt to the terrain...eating of food was really hard...

just as i was about to take a power gel... another attack occuered and i had to try to chase it down...

i really couldn't do much but to follow the pack ....
couldn't create any breakaway opportunities or help dan to chase down any ppl who have created a breakaway from the pack.

dan and jud was like the only person in the front line fighting for his life as the rest of us try to push with the pack....
darrel was having some problems i think... i felt he underperformed... as he tried hard to create opportunities for a breakaway... but with no success



i finish with the 1st pack... together with ronnie yap, ah seah, jud, dan and darrel.

i was real shocked that the race ended... as i thought there was still round 10km more...
made a grave mistake man... bummer..
felt real bad after the race... like i did no contribution to the team.
totally new game concept man... i couldn't match up to the malaysian's aggresive attacks, calm and cool posture...

i think many of us were quite disappointed.
vick was crying at a corner...
you know one of the disadvantages about the only girl in the team is that there is no one to hug you when u are sad?
she told me afterwards that she was real scared in the pelethon cos it was way too fast and everyone was just shooting out from no whr... and the slopes were really killing

ya man.... this day will always remain a memory in me...
once i was scared of speed...fast corners....fear of being dropped.
today i was fighting hard to keep myself in the pack....flying thru corners at 45km/hr... trying to aid my team mates... it really hurts to see your team mate fighting out in the front with no support... when you know thr is so much u want and can do but haven't got the ability to do so












sad...













darrel and dan















Prize giving
















dan managed a individual 15,
vicky got 2nd for her cath.
ronnie got 5th for his cath and a pair of sunglasses for lucky draw



i really really in love with this sport man...
there are so much to learn... so much fun and speed left unexplored...
ya trg is pain... waking up 4am in the morn trg twice a day is a dread at times
but you know whats makes all these pain worthwhile...
is knowing that these ppl with you during trg will be the only blood you depend on in the competition.
and the ppl who will take care of you when your tube burst, when you are in a bad mood.
and the blood does not stop here
i am sure each of enjoy each other's company or we wouldn't sacrifice our sat and sun going up and down singapore while the whole nation is still in her bed
love u guys lots...


we are one
we are family
we are team schoders




(my mom knows from one look that vick and darrel are couples.... )


wow