Our 2010 Ramadhan ride

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Thursday, Shuk texted me asking whether the Ramadhan Friday night ride is ON or not? Ziff later blogged about it and I was still running around with daily task at work. Then Det and a few Camdek fellows emailed about the same matter. The doubtness escalate when Friday evening it rained cats and dogs jamming most major road in the city. It lasted till the Iftaar hour. I only managed to squeeze in a quick message through Facebook to whoever within my contact. Hopefully they open it which eventually the replies were encouraging. Phew!

Julie was also planning a ride that night but the 10.00 p.m. meeting time was a bit tight for some us attending terawikh. Eventually most of us successfully gathered at Palace of Justice to repeat the annual Ramadhan night ride with a few new riding buddies at 10.30. It will the first group ride for Yimster, Ziff and Nik Raiha. The regular weekend warriors was Det, Nizam, Hancik, Zakuan, Dicky, Jaja, Shuk and Syrim. Arif and Senn arrived later and they joined the ride. We have 14 cyclists when we rolled off from PoJ heading towards PICC planning to do the IM70.3 route which shall cover about 30km.

Weather was perfect at the beginning but turned soggy as we approached Alamanda. However, the rain and dry came and went away as we pedal away into the night. Some enjoying their first Putrajaya outing on two wheels, some still learning to handle the bike, some enjoying the pleasureable torture of the climbs and some just decided to sit back and enjoy the camaraderie.

The night was sweet but not until Hancik and Jaja went missing from the peloton. They took the wrong turn whilst attempting to catch up with the group at one of the climb. We had to miss them after a few unanswered calls and me doubling back for a search with hopes they were fine.

From the miscommunication, the group was split into two. The front group waited too long for us and decided to complete the loop and back to PoJ. The second group with Yim, Ziff, Nizam, Nik Raiha, Syrim and me slowly covering the remaining miles meeting the whole group back again at PoJ.

We spent a bit more time at the stairs infront of PoJ and most of us continued on to the usual mamak at Precinct 9 for hot meals. The initial plan to run after the ride was shelved considering some images of mee goreng and teh tarik were witnessed in the night sky. The night ended somewhere around 3.00 a.m. with still drizzles along the way.