As usual, the way I search for races especially for Thai races is like doing some Goggle research. Since the Devil trail got cancelled, I began to look around for some trail race to kick start my engine again. But I also do not want to kill myself. So elevation is also a key.
18 Sep 2022, was called to do this by Jac. I wasn’t confident but since there was a free bib and sooner or later, I would need to do the Bintan Iron man, so I thought I might as well give this a shot. Just to see whether I am up for it.
As part of the National Day effort, Active SG organised a series of sporting activities under the name of Pesta Sukan. There were many categories of sporting activities which participants can sign up for inside the Active Sg app. This year I signed up for the swimming and cycling round island adventure. For the swim, it was competitive with the usual competitions from real swim meets.
After doing the 28 loops round MR for the MR 25 challenge, I was actually quite tired about doing trails. But this was one race I thought maybe worth the while to do as I really did not feel like looping anything anymore and Mountain Goat was another loop race.
This was a postponed race from 2020. Was really looking forward to it then as I promised to join with my Indonesian running friend, Jusuf, whom I met in Tahura Marathon at Bandung. We had always wanted to meet again for a race in Indonesia and when we finally wanted to do this, Covid hit in 2020.
Done it at the end of June, last year I did it for the super biathlon to go up Bukit Timah hill. I did not plan to do it this year, however, Jac , a good friend of mind want to go for the speed. So we both decided to go ahead for it. Aeiroman is a triathlon event by the Running Guild, it has various distances and so far done virtually.
So this time round we did a bigger scale operations. Mainly because Katie, one of our swimmers, is going back to UK as her husband got repatriated.
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.