♔ Le Blue Sky de Tea Wonderland ♔ 〉阿茶乐园之雨后天晴 : 1st Leg of MUDS 2012

~UPNM Contingent ~

Finally 1^st leg of Malakoff University Duathlon Series (MUDS) is here. On 12 May 2012, I woke up very early, looking at outside, it was raining, oh no, how we want to cycle under this situation. 0630H gathered at Wisma Pegawai Kadet. Arrival of 3tan and bus to bring all the bicycles and participants to MUDS. That day, no more bus for us, we just get one bus and 4units of 3tan, military style, haha. We are all together 80people plus 64units of bicycles, heading to UM full with military style, 4 units of 3 tan follows by one bus.

~ Smart or not? J ~

Tarmizi, Bukhari and me as the manager to 80 people, ratio 3 : 80, very tired to handle all of them if they didn’t give co-operation. Luckily with help with team mates of my intake: Afifudin, Amir Hadi, Amir Nasir and Lim, and co-operation from all participants, everything went on smoothly. What a relief when see that the situation is under control early in the morning, luckily no urgent thing pop up last minute, nothing we miss out, no angry sound and maybe nothing big case went on, so everybody departed to UM in good mood, well-prepared for MUDS 2012. This is what I wish to see, and I saw it, really very happy with everything, and juniors also very helpful, they automatically sent the bikes up to 3 tans before I asked them to do, not bad la, they know what they need to help. Thanks.

~ Walking into transition area.~

Because of too many people in this game, so we need to use military style, baris to calculate the strength of present participants. Ok, enough people, luckily nobody left behind and nobody woke up late. Alright, when reach UM, everybody must be very blur why got so many military truck inside UM, haha. Walking in to the transition area, started to feel the mood of game. Gear in of bicycles, and UPNM participants always make MUDS situation more greater. This is a big event, Men Open category got a very challenging compete between participants. Actually, this event involved of Malaysian, Australian and other nationality. Besides, international athletes also came and support in this game, make MUDS 2012 more competitive.

~ Race started ~

Well, the game started at 0900H, luckily no more raining. I stand quite in front at the starting line, Tn. Qayyum guided me along the race. He brought me so that I won’t give up easily in this game. He always encourage me to go faster and faster, I noticed that I can’t ran fast, don’t know why, I just maintained steady pace to run, because I need to maintain my stamina to cycle and run back again. This was my 1^st time took part in duathlon event. I’m scared when people overtake me. I always look around, notice either got any woman with my same category or not. Got one lady took over me during the 1t run. Ok, 1^st run of 3km was over, then straight continue with 11.4km cycle. UM bike course is really very challenging, it was a steep hilly course for whole 11.4km. I cycled up to the hill and saw the steepness, oh my god. Some more need to do 2 loops of bike course leh. Really thinking of want to come down from the bike and push the bike along the journey. But I’m wearing UPNM’s jersey, so I just carry on with whatever energy and power I got la. Looking of so many people walked and push their bike, I felt so relief, at least I’m better than them. When I climbed out to the hill, few of my team mates from UPNM cheer for me:” TEH, come on. TEH, cepat.” Very happy when heard people cheer for me. On the bicycle, I try to drink water, but when I drink water, the speed become very slow. Hehe, still don’t know how to control bicycle when drinking.

~ Smart or Nice? J ~

When I came down from the hill, and heading 200m to transition area, got one lady from University Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIA) took over me, wow, she was so fast, make me shocked. I faster change my mood and ride faster, 100m before getting into transition area, I took over her again, then with fastest move, I threw my helmet on floor and straight ran out from transition area and continue my 2^nd run. I’m so scared if she take over me again. Luckily, I ran faster a little bit and has a gap longer distance with her. I ran back to the finishing line. Argh…. finally finish the race, really very not easy to complete this game. 3km run – 11.4km cycle – 3km run, takes me 1:11:57 to complete it. I felt alright after the game. For my cycling, max speed just hit 49.7km/h only, very slow leh, others at least 50km/h. For the whole journey, I just consumed 1 power gel before start the race. After this should consume 2 power gel, to make me stronger. I get placing no.2 in Woman University Category, satisfied with it. Congratulations to Lydia, who are the winner for this category, just knew that she is from Ipoh Cycling Club, and studying in New Zealand currently, now she coming back here just for holiday. She was quite sporting, we shake hand and she told me that: “You ride very fast, very good, you are chasing behind me.” J When someone said like that, may help me to get higher confident, ya, I will do more training and perform well in next 2 series. No. 3 belongs to Fatin from UIA. She is also one of my challenger, waiting to compete with her next week. Hope will be good. Actually they aimed me to get no.1 in this category, but I disappointed them, felt so sorry. Hope myself can do better in next series.

~ Tn. Qayyum, he guided me along the journey, Thanks. J ~

~ With POLYGON HELIOS 100, I get faster..Yeah..Thanks.~

As I said this is a popular event, so many media also present in this event, included TV3, metro, Malaysia Cycling Magazine and many more. After this, you may search on newspaper or TV, will got news about MUDS 2012. Very glad to see UPNM’s participants performed very well in this event, 1^st , 2^nd and 3^rd prize for Men Relay and Mixed Relay Category were all teams from UPNM. While 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th prize in Men University Category also from UPNM, and 2^nd and 4^th prize in Women University Category was from UPNM. Great, hope everybody can do well in next 2 series. Our coach and officer in charge our club also supported us for the whole event.

~ Photo with our coach and officer incharge ~

After the game, we went for lunch at UM, I ate chicken chop to make myself happy, hehe. Postmortem was done before release everybody. Yes, everybody did very well in 1^st series of MUDS 2012. Good Luck in coming 2 more series.