1st ride in 2009

temperature was low at 2C but there were plenty of sunshine today. got change and head out to ride. rode 21km in total for the first day. this is part of the keep healthy resolution that i would make. last year this time, i went for a 5km walk and i was telling myself to keep healthy. i have kept my promise.

by the way, i have clocked 2059km since May 2008 on my merida duke pro mountain bike.

五峰山+烧烤

today went with david and a group of 40 riders to 5 Peaks Mountain and BBQ organized by the Suzhou Merida. the overall ride is shorter than last week ride but we still clock 84km in total. we left early in the morning at 7:15am and meet up with other riders at the mudu merida shop. as usual, the morning ride is cold at about 5 degree celsius to begin with although the temperature pick up later in the day but probably still at about low 10 instead of 17-18 as forecast.


a picture before moving out from the shop. everyone was excited about the ride plus the bbq.


top left. Start of the dirt track. Not that easy as the road center is at least 20cm higher than the wheel track. Need lot of focus while riding. top right, the first slope with a gradient of 60degrees. Pushed up. bottom left, 2nd slope, less steep and shorter, still push up. bottom right, rode down. pretty challenging. after this downhill, there is a 20cm wide 2m long bridge, so some skill is required.

We reached a quarry after couple of uphill and downhill, this is the place that we will bbq our food.

setting up the fire took us awhile as many do not have experience with it and no one brought any fire starter. haha... anyway, we managed to start the fire for the bbq and we had a good bbq lunch. i took 10 half chicken wings, 5 sticks of the meat skewers and 2 cups of soda. although i do not think it worth the 30rmb that we paid for but it is the fun with the local guys. this is really something local local.

david and myself left the bbq at 1pm and we reached home at 3:30pm with a 40km distance on the return trip.

more pictures can be located at SZR web.

another 100km ride

wanted to join some SZR (Suzhou Rider) yesterday to tian pin shan for a ride but there are some family matters need to take care of so did not join them. so, today meet up with another group of SZR at Giant and rode to Yu Yang Shan. the ride was tough due to weather as well as lack of long distance riding. 2 weeks back I rode to the same place with the same group. my fitness did not really improve. today, got a few cramps on both leg while going up the mountain on the metal road. butt still pain after the long ride, could be due to the saddle that i changed it sometime back.

a group photo from the SZR website. i am third from the right.

tian ping shan riding

went to tian ping shan with a group of merida guys. the ride was not long but tough... lot of slopes and of course i push up and down the slopes.

here are the videos.

finally

traced back my pictures, it been 2 months that i had not been riding for more that 50km per trip. very shameful about this. finally, today woke up early and head to yu yang shan with a group of ten. the sky was clear and sunny. let cut the talkking and here are some pictures for your viewing.

in sumary, my fitness has drop tremenously, the whole trip was 95km and i was having butt pain, ankle pain. look like i have to restart the whole riding but the temperature is getting real low of 2 to 10 this week. it will get down further to 0 to 5 in the next few weeks. i wonder how can i do the riding. maybe wait till spring.

plan did not happen

www.szriders.com is organizing for a leisure cum mountain riding to suzhou east mountain this saturday. during the weekday i was planning and making sure that i do not have any event crash with this not so leisure ride since i would like to make another trip there. my first trip to the place was a torture but i believe this time, the total of 150km will not be a problem to me and i am going to enjoy it. i even push back my nanjing trip with my family to sunday so that i could join the ride but...

it rained two full days on thursday and friday, the organizer fill that due to that, the event is postphone to sunday, so... i am not able to make it this time round... just my luck... sigh...

hate myself

i hate myself.

why? i had not been riding for long distance or mountain riding for at least 4 weeks or 28 days or 672 hrs, . my physical is dropping... blame it to the weather or maybe just my laziness... knn... don't know what i have been doing the past 4 weekends... nb...

someone help me please...