Kenyir lake Triathlon 27th May 2007

It's been 3 weeks after the race and now only I put my thought of the race here. As I've been in New York for the past 2 weeks for business trip. No time for it.
Still fresh in my mind on what happened during the entire race.
I had a not so comfortable swim leg where I was out of the water clocking at the time of 26min!! Getting slower in my swimming skills.

Took my own sweet time to put on sunglasses, helmet, shoes and race # before coming out from the T1. Right after the first hill, someone from behind shouted "On your right!", saw one fierce looking female triathlete passing me! She even stared at me as if I'm blocking her whole road. Too slow, until overtook by ladies just at the start of the cycling leg.
I tried to cycle as comfortable as possible because I've set the target this time to finish (not to push my bike at the last hill) the whole cycling course,not as the 2 continuous years before.

All the way, I tried to pace as many riders as possible within my reach. I've tried to follow at least 5 different groups of cyclist during the whole course and end up as normal, being dropped at last :(

For that, I realise that if I wanna be racing well in triathlon, I must have a strong or at least good cycling leg, all thing will get done after that.

During the last hill climb, Don Khor is actually running just 50m behind me for his last lap. I knew that he was there and I determined to not let him overtook me,else kena tease again when I'm back to Chin Woo swimming session :) Luckily I managed to climb the hill and finish the cycling leg in 1 hour 37min, wat a shamefull timing.

Amazingly after many hills climb, my legs not protesting by any cramps :) Felt so happy and thought that I could finish the race in 3 hours. Ran out T2 with confident run as the sun already high in the sky!!

At the fisrt junction, saw Razali dashing to the finishing line with Ah Wei just following behind. He is as good as a youngster!! Really hope that I can run as least 50% of his speed during the running legs in triathlon. I managed to overtook someone in the running legs. It's a consolation prize for me indeed. I even saw triathlere coming back with their bicycle when I'm finishing the 1st loops. But I know that these are not the groups that I should look at, should be the other wy round, e.g Ah Wei and Razali group :) My legs started to cramp when I approaching 3km, it was a tough race as the sun is very high at that time, the are plenty of works need to be done before I race in Half Ironman next year.

Everytime when I was passing the finishing point for my running leg, cheering pupils did a good job and boost my spirit high. Hope we can get this type of road support more in the upcoming races. Finally finish the race in 3h24min with the running leg clocked at 1h17min. I know what I need to prepare myself towards triathlon after each race and I think I'll come back stronger in the next race.

KK