Week 2 Dua

There goes Week No. 2 for my compressed 4 weeks training "cacar merba" for Powerman. Masa ni la nak squeeze in cardio/endurance & masa ni jugak la nak sumbat strength macam popia basah jadiknya.

After the Deepavali kinda-long brick workout, I was 90% hesitance to continue with Saturday brick. Felt a bit drained and perhaps still drooped. I need some kind of boost but none came. Did a last minute preparation to settle the bike and other stuff into the car that night. One thing good from the few previous bricks done, all the necessary essentials were arranged and set in a brisk. The hassle with multi discipline sports is that there's a lot of stuff in the checklist and working out the preparation is also part of the training.

The plan was to make it an easy workout, no plans stressing things up hence punctuality was kept at moderate level. Since the previous brick was covered more on saddle time, I planned to twitch the running legs more this time. A 10K for the first run, followed with a 30K bike and whatever distance that we can cover for the second run.

The 10K was covered with joyous mood, bringing me back to old time LSD. Surprisingly legs and heart rate were cooperating in a sync melody. Though we witnessed the great power of AKIM at certain times when he put up his show, we managed to stay together for most of the run. 

Julie Jewelz joined us for the bike part onwards. We have Izuan today. He's new with the bike. And he's determine to have signed up for the Individual Category. Salute! But he's gonna need a lot of patience with the gear and cadence part. I mean A LOT cause with 2 weeks to go, he will just need the confidence. God speed bro!

Syah took the effort pacing with Izuan while the rest of us...as usual paving our way and groupchecked at a few  junctions. Until somewhere at KM20+ Syah text me. "Izuan tak berapa stim. Wa teman dia balik picc". Noted. Azmar, Julie, Ziff and me continued completing the IM70.3 bike route back to PICC with one or two intervals thrown in (mana yang sempat).

It's hotter compared to Deepavali day when we started the second run. Pace and legs were OK. Though I was a bit ambitious to attempt another 10K but wisdom taught me not to. It was just a HOT 5K run by the lake without any wind to assist the draining spirit. I had to succumb to the rule of thumb : short mile, run fast. Ignored the screaming HR, pushing the LT but the biting sun was becoming more violence.

We basked and stretched ourselves at the carpark enjoying the luscious wind and icy Coke...thanks AKIM!  before wrapping up Week 2. Need more run!

Trespassers. Harus kena tembak ni

Only Lanuns allowed to run across the dam

Saper budak baru sila angkat tangan

A few anxious faces ready to speed

Cam biasa, group photo