Transition

With too many things to cramp in two months before Ramadhan, it's started to get on my critical nerves. I just had to digest what I can chew without having to bloat about it. Signing up for events, is one easy task - which depends if you don't have to dig deep into your pocket, but preparing for it is another thing.

OK ni bukan TT bike Specialized yang Fabian Cancelera akan pakai kat Tour de France nanti, nor it is about triathlon transition yang aku tak pernah buat pung.

After interstate, I skipped KL Towerthon and Larian Bomba though it was supposed to be in my want-to-do list this year. Too bad it's only a week after interstate, where DOM still lingers and pushing myself for a back-to-back race ain't quite lack of wisdom at that point of time. I'll just have to wait for next year to hurl myself up the KL Tower staircase and give a chase at the limited medal in the veteran category of Larian Bomba.

Anyway, I was kinda relief that I decided to get back into the running groove that particular morning as Larian Bomba. A totally not quite long-SLOW-distance run, thanks to Syah and Azmar for the pace setting but it was a good call. It was now or never. Should I delayed that LSD, I would have suffered in the next round. Well, that was the first transition - cycling to running.

The recent weekend, the crave for cycling didn't easily fade. We had to plan something, in fact it was more of a gathering after missing some peeps prior to interstate. It was about catching up. So, it was a ride to Bagan Lalang, the most flattish route...and fastest I guess, for fast back home. Maklum la semuanya orang berkeluarga.

Back to the drawing board, Hal Highdon's training program says I should be dealing with 29km next weekend. Ouch! That's a handful. Again, it's either now or never. Besides, we have quite a bunch of us following the same program, and group running would be a good start to motivate each other...just like the old days. Crossing my fingers as I post this, hopefully I could survive to the carpark!

I'm anticipating the second transition will be right after KL Marathon. That's where the cycling conondrum starts again for the Ipoh Century Ride. The thing is...(sorry Shuk pinjam kejap), this ICR is just a week before PD Triathlon! Aiyak! Now, where can I get all the recoveries and strength to do all those at a very small window? OK. The concept is, to wait and see. Give it a shot at a time and see how it goes after each one of them. Just hope that I wont be the one that's being shot!