Saturday koko complete

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Date is 26th November,2005. The used to call epic ride on weekend become norm to us. Every Saturday and Sunday we rode the same route. Our time didn't improve much but we are more comfortable of it. I think that's consider our base riding. The ultimate goal is to reduce the overall ride time from the present 2hours 55min down to 2hours 15min, let's dream on it and continue to push.

Sunday ride. The first T2T ride

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Date is 27th November,2005. We started as usual at 5AM and reach the start of T2T at 5:40AM,that's about 18KM from home. We then start from 6:08AM and reach the end of it at 6:47AM (2KM). I stop four times and the last time I have push all the way to the end. I figured it will take us more or less the same amount of time to complete the whole ride(from kiamsom to menggatal clinic).

Next ride I shall reduce the number of stops and progress to no stop at all over a few months.

Saturday KoKo complete.

Start at 5AM and reach Clinic at 5:37AM. From clinic to football field, it took us 52min and the distance is 7.8KM.(Avg speed=6.76KM/hr) Not impressive at all. We stop by at football field for 10 min and start again. The total distance from clinic to the Y junction(turn left to Kampung KoKo tonbonggon and right to kiamson) is sligthly less than 12KM and took us 1 hour 30 min to complete. The total distance from clinic to the T junction at kiamson is around 16KM and it took us 1 hour and 48 min to complete.(18 min to complete the steep and tarred downhill) From the T junction to Inanam township is 8KM. When we arrived the kopitiam, it is only 7:50AM. Taking breakfast there took us another 25 min. By the time I reach home, its 9:05AM.

Total ride distance is 35.9KM(clinic to home) + 15KM(home to clinic) = 50.9KM. How long it took? Well, 3 hours.....

short ride!

1. very short ride on Thursday morning. Start at 4AM and finished at 5AM, distance cover 13KM and average HR was 166. Bukit Padang Hill.

2. Another short ride on Friday evening. Start at 6PM and finished at 6:28PM, distance cover 8KM, Signal Hill. AHR was 166 as well.

3. Short ride on Saturday morning. Start at 6:45AM from Chung Hwa Likas and right to Inanam and finished at 8:35AM. This is a short route that I never ride b4. Total distance cover 13KM and AHR was 155.

4. Short ride on Sunday afternoon. Start at 4PM from home and meet up Pepsi at Bukit Padang. Complete the quarry hill climb in 1hr 15mins. AHR was 166 and total distance is 13KM.

Total distance ride for the week was less than 100KM. No good.

Half KoKo ride

Date is 25th September,2005 Sunday. Time is 05:00AM. I started from Lintas and ride slowly toward Likas to meet Douglas, we are suppose to start at 5AM but my breakfast taken up quite a lot of time. The distance from my house to SM Shian Tau is 5.3KM, from there to Menggatah clinic is 9.8KM, then 8KM from there to KoKo football field. The time taken to ride from clinic to football field is about 1hr39min, average speed is 4.84KM/hr. Total ride time is 2hr38min(from my house and then back to my office at Likas Square) Feel weak and tired, slow.... Need to ride and run regulary in weekdays to strengthen my performance....bye

Le Tour De Bukit Padang Off Road Sukma Track - 17th September

This is what they claimed one of the challenging track in KK. Well, let's see what it had. We start at 4:30PM from Sekolah Agama at Bukit Padang, it is not really long and steep but technically challenging. The single track downhill is a really my first time to ride on such a narrow track and slippery. The track actually break down to three parts, the first part is bukit padang hill, the second part is the quarry hill and the final part is, the 'sharifah' hill which is tar up hill back to the starting point. We didn't manage to finish the second and third part of the track due to very heavy rain. For safty consideration, I refuse to ride the second and third part since the road become too slippery, and nightning is also quite intense. How intense is this track? Well, for 58 mins of riding, my average HR is 160. Not bad. Let's see if I can schedule another Saturday or Sunday to finish the complete track.

Malaysian Day(16th September) Ride - Kokol 2 Kiamsom

This is a long ride, at least to me it is. I started at 5:00AM from Lintas and ride to Likas meet up with Douglas, that accounted for a 5.3KM only. Then we proceed to Menggatal, didn't take down the distance. I start the stop watch when we reach Menggatal clinic and begin our up hill climb. When we reach Kokol's football field, it was slightly 53 min, very happy, non-stop riding. We stop there for a while, about 15 min and continue our journey from there. Douglas never ride the whole course since I didn't took him to complete it. This time, I vow to finish the whole journey, no matter what. It was very windy and I have to put up my Adidas rain jacket and even have to battle with the headwind while climbing the hill(happended to flatland riding mostly).

The ride after the football field prove to be more difficult than I can remember, this stretch took us one hour to finish(reach Yee Heng kopi shop)
Stat:-
Total distance from home=40KM
Total Ride time=2:38
Average Speed=15KM
Average Cadence=65RPM

Riding log

My first riding with the Merida bike. Hard tail as it is, very hard and need some time to get use to it. The Shimano XT shifter seems hard to shift from big cog to smller cog at rear, and the other way round on the front gears. This again may take some time to get use to..... Bike computer, great, now I know my distant and cadence, but there wasn't any record on the average cadence..Nevermind, not really matter.

OK. On Sunday(11th Sep), we ride to Tanaki(how this name come about?) and be frank, it's not really that hard as compare to Duck Farm hill, but certainly has longer distant to battle. No riding on Monday and Tuesday since I am outstation on work. Don't think Wednesday is possible as well. Let's see if I can ride on Thursday, then Friday to Duck Farm hill again.