I have been very reluctant to write this one, because it was very painful experience. Another reason was that this year, I did it with a person whom I really respect and I felt I had dragged him down the wrong way in this one. After last year’s attempt, I have been thinking seriously, do I really want to do it or let it go? In the end, seems like I just cannot let it go and signed up again.
Took me sometime to realise I never update about this one. I signed up for this major’s virtual edition. Got confirmation and was really excited about it.
Jac, a swimming friend turned crazy cyclist, just came up with this idea for the Round Island with a couple, Nigel and Katherine as they never did it before. I also never did a round island just maybe a half island. Jac got 2 other folks to join us.
Joining this was because I got bored about roads. Singapore roads are quite boring and monotonous, maybe because I always run same places or maybe it is due to the Covid 19 and I have not went out of the country for 2 years.
It did not occur to me to do this although I know eventually I will have to , if I want to do a Ironman 70.3. For this race, you will need to clock a 90KM ride which till date my longest ride is 70km.
Did not thought about joining this race at all, then just got spurred by one of the swimming friends, Fidel Costa. He was running the Bukit timah summit all the time and I realised that he was joining this activity.
To speak the truth I am not a good tri person. I really cannot ride well and do not know the technicalities of riding. But there is one thing that I enjoy about riding is the speed and freedom it gives me which running sometimes does.
This event is a Tri, Bi or Dua thalon event by the Running Guild
There are different category and distances and mix and match between the 3 types of exercises, Swim , Bike and Run. Was very tempted to do the super tri. But I realise that cycling portion is going to kill my time as a 100Km for me is likely to take 4 hours, which after I am not sure if I can still run a Half Marathon. That being said. It would have been a good training for half Iron Man though. Brings me back to thinking, how did all these people do full ironman in less than 17 hours.
I wrote one piece about Open Water. So far all my open water trainings are in Sentosa, must say that this place is a safer location than other Open waters in Singapore. As I continue on my open water journey, I began to discover more about Sentosa and the places where you can swim which is almost unreachable to others by foot.