Feel Again

Year 2013 came with a bang for most of us. Alhamdullillah. Me, I just planned for a slow crawl into the building blocks back into shape after a year of absence and just plain building guts.

The original plan to revisit Bukit Ammah was shelved due to the lack of morality, but in another perspective, I was wise enough not to. Running milage took a yo-yo trip with all those school break trips. Eventually, I had to post it at Bib-2-let on FB.

Watching down the line of 2013, it may seem that getting the running legs back into shape isn’t easy. I’ll be busier ‘running’ around the neighborhood juggling domestic issues, literally. Marathon? KIV for another year. That’s two years in a row now.

The cycling part is more enjoying for the time being. That’s because I can only do it once a week over the weekend, and there’s nothing more demanding than that. It’ will be either a simple cup of coffee ride or the ones that you-can-bite-more-than-you-can-chew kind of ride.

Right after the school opening drama settles down, it was back to my dusty drawing board to plan for building a mileage program. This old goat needs a twitch to the age old stuff; hence we need some kind of a slow build up. Strength first, mileage comes in progressively. Possible?

With what was left from the kayuh laksa jamboree kicked-off, the rolling back into Langat and up Genting Peres was fortunately manageable. Though it may seem like a crawl pace, but it was still enjoyable less gritting teeth and curse.

The second ride to Lenggeng Loop for the lovely nasi lemak ikan sembilang was absolutely fantastic. Now I can feel that the gear starts kicking in and drools for more.

Ride plans came in like a gush of silky wind over the window seal. We have a few plans down the line for January and February already. Event calendar have yet to be settled since a few wish-to-do events threw in blood sucking participating fee.

We have just completed the Colmar climb yesterday. We rode from Gombak to Colmar and back. A very hilly route and it paid a handsomely rewarding lower back pain! Been a while since I did a suffer fest ride this. It should be a good one for the starting block though, of course after this back pain subsides.

My feet and heart is numb...