Flawless

Fuh! The morning LSD was altered to follow the program instead and it was a blast. A last minute changes due to Alwin's tight calf resulted to the three of us trusties orang kampung BTHO gathering for a kampung run. Det, Nizam and me met up at the guard post agreeing for a delicious breakfast run menu. I suggested a 10km TT. Huuuuu....everybody shivered either in delight or scared.

We did a 20 minutes warm up around Zone 5 1.5km course and punched the timeline for a 10km TT upon exiting for the McDonald's loop. Pace was kept at conversational initially, cautiously making way up the first incline. A good warm up resulted to a good run, rather than getting those stiff leg feeling in the early morning. Anyway, we need it.

Reaching km3, we met bro Rizwan & Ipin. Seemed like bro Rizwan just started his run while Ipin was all in sweat, perhaps he has covered some distance earlier. Without hesitance, they joined us! Alamak! Now we looked like five runners pounding the kampung road. More commonly is to see those Kenyans running, but perhaps the scenario took a slight turn for the locals la pulak. Hehehe. This is very much a rare sight la especially seeing enthusiastic Malay runners running in group around the neighbourhood, but it's cool. Hopefully this would bring out those local hidden talents in our kampung.

With two veteran marathoners around, you'd probably expect a drastic change to the pace. Yep, NOS was in use quite prematurely before halfway mark. The casualties were seen as we ascended the secong climb after McD. Det seemend engaging into lower gears. Ipin was covering the back, or it seemend like his day has ended. Rizwan was busy sharing more stories from glory days. Nizam and me were nothing more like a living corpses seconded either in "ummph" or "whoah!" to every bit of Rizwan's tales.

We crossed the 10km mark and shook hands with bro Rizwan, thanking him for a "great"run and wishing him luck for his relay in Bukit Jalil tomorrow. We walked around for 20 minutes chit chatting before going back home gritting smile as we entered the gate with kids happily shouting dad came home early. Hahaha.

Sunday, I was still contemplating what ride menu should be served. A last minute party of three (the same member of orang kampung) headed out into Langat at 7.30am. Perhaps due to long weekend break for KL, we had the road to ourselves. It was awesome. Macam road touring kat oversea. We stopped at Batu 14 for some bike twitch by Det and another stop at Batu 18 for a breather. An hour in and another hour out. This is a perfect bike getaway and a flawless cross training. The ride back was another blast, hammering those cranks all the way back home. Mantap 800 kali!

Orang kampung

Photos thanks to Azhan (another orang kampung) with a RM7k lense!