Week 1 - July 2008 (Monday)

I haven't been cycling for a week now, the last time i was on my bike was in Miri doing the Sarawak International Triathlon. Will post a race report on it soon.

So decided to do some bike training today and managed to hit the road just around 7 am, starting from my in-law's place in Kapok (Muara) and headed on to the Muara-Tutong Highway.

Half way through my ride, a cycling friend caught up and joined me for about half an hour. He's part of the Brunei Police Team that had just competed in the Pesta Sukan Kebangsaan (National Sports Meet) 2008 last week which their team won a few gold medals for cycling. He was telling me how they won the races and the strategies that they used during the race.

Its fascinating to hear his stories about the races and that some of them can cycle up to 50 km/h on a flat road and maintain it on slopes. I cant even reach that speed going downhill.. Its probably because of my bike.. right...

In the evening, managed to go down to the national swimming pool after maghrib for a quick session as the pool closes at 8 pm. They should extend it another hour to give us busy people more time to train. Its not easy managing your time to train for 3 sports.

BIKE

Time: 7 am
Type: Easy
Duration: 2 hrs
Distance: 60 km
Route: Muara – JP - Manggis

SWIM

Time: 7 pm
Type: 500 m x 2 (front crawl) with 100 m (breaststroke) warm-up and in between rep
Duration: Around 40 mins (need to get a watch for swimming)
Distance: 1,200 m
Venue: National Swimming Pool