Shah Alam Enduride 2018

October 09, 2018

Shah Alam Enduride 2018

Assalamulaikum and Good Day,

7th October 2018

Starting Grid

Wake up early for breakfast and kinda nervous this morning. There is no perfect time for everyone, but having breakfast within 30 minutes of waking up is a good rule of thumb. Just a bowl of corn flake and full cream milk. Preparing my Shaklee Performance drinks for bring out the best performance and keep the momentum going while ride.

Tyre start rolling sharp at 7.30 am after got the green light from the police traffic. Just adding a few buck i can park in front with racer group. We start rolling with average 30-35 km\h for warming up. Its a huge peloton riding together like fish in the ocean. The bumpy road almost along the Jalan Meru produce a lot of vibration and unfortunately there an accident near the Giant. The action start when they passing the 'Race START' gate. I can everybody turn crazy and start pedaling hard like there is no tomorrow.

The Suffering

I just keep my pace not hit hard my pedal since it just a 10km and i have to face 110km more. But manage to catch the big peloton until the Doom day, Dragon Back. The peloton scatted as they hit the foot of the hill and my hook just snap line that.I maintain my gap between other rider as precaution because some of the rider suddenly stop pedaling and cause and accident. Even though The Dragon Back route so majestic with about 6 hump along 5.4km, we cry suffering when climbing and cry of joy when rocketing. At the tail of the Dragon I'm pushing to much as my heart rate monitor out of battery and feel a sharp pain at right side of the chest and manage to get back to the peloton.

Inside the peloton i just doing a fast recovery and breath normally until the pain relieve along Kapar route to Asam Jawa. For the first time I don't stop at water station worrying that will loose the group and suffer ride alone with wind blowing gracefully but completely dragging longer time and energy.

As a consequence of riding in group, we enjoy the scenery,save energy and less effort without realising that we arrive at Bestari Jaya town. It feel like in the vacuum zone but need extra focus to front signal where is the obstacle, pot hole, parking vehicle and traffic a head. The town is special because there were a hill to climbing and as always I keeping a safe distance with the peloton and yes the accident happen just in front of my eye. I hope the riders speed recovery and finish strong.

The Mental Break

Toward to Puncak Alam we have to ride through hilly road of Batu Arang that extremely test to the limit. Just sip a power gel provided for instant energy and pedaling in my own pace since I already in 3rd quarter of the journey to the finishing line. The sun already start to blasting it scouring hot ray and I'm started to mumbling to myself. In my head i just want to end this ride and dip inside bathtub full with ice cube. The suffering continue at Puncak Alam and I'm almost depression by looking at humongous hill waiting ahead.

As far as I ride, it feel like never ending climbing and the speed become slower proportional with energy level that starting depleted. Luckily I noticed there was a camera man sit behind a stopping car and immediately i gain a power to climb faster and strike a pose. Every hard climbing is always a sweet descending which reminding our childhood memories. The traffic already build up in Meru town have to be extra careful as the driver refuse to use indicator while changing lane and I have to play as Shaman (Bomoh) to guess which way they up to.