Summary for October & Body Aches

Cycled again after 4-5 months? Courses, wedding, decorations for the new flat - all sorts of reasons. I decided not to take the chance of getting myself killed while cycling from my place to ECP, and instead drove there. Carpark was bloody full as there was a Newton race at ECP yesterday. Had to do a illegal parking. Lucky I did not get a summon. I read that some got a ticket at the trailer carpark. A mere 20km distance was enough to cause me to have body aches all over. Even the sit bones are bruised! The result of being inactive on the bike for too long.

The month of October has come to an end and a glance at Garmin Connect calender shows that my progression has not been ideal.

 

 

Come on, 13.5 hours for whole month? Buck up IMDZ.

Mellow Meatballs & Rocky Road

Sashimi @ Sushi Tei

Testing Share Function via Garmin Connect

Testing out the share function on Garmin Connect. It did not work so well with Wordpress, but Blogger make it seem so easy. Anyway, this is today's workout, a tiring run with the blazing heat of the Sun attempting to make BBQ out of me.

Race Route for SCMS Half Marathon 2011 is Out

This year race route does not seem to have much difference from last year, which is a good thing. I'm delighted to know that the start point will be from Sentosa, a change from the usual compared to few years back. Yet, my fear of the slopes at Sentosa is growing by the day too. You see, I have not been training hillworks for quite a while and today's short ascent up the Changi Village bridge made me realized that I needed more bucking up.

So I guess the game plan for next week shall include 1 to 2 Sentosa runs at easy pace to familiarize with myself of the slopes at Sentosa. Will update more once I have a profile of the route for the Sentosa run.

Training for SCMS 2011

With just barely 5 weeks remaining to SCMS 2011, this means about 3 more weeks of quality training and tapering for the last two weeks.

Unlike other races which I joined on previous years, I did not really follow strictly to a training plan faithfully. Instead, I jumped around between two training plans and just go by the feel of how should I be training. May not be a good idea but let's see where will it take me to.

Components of my Road Bike with Cannondale CAAD10 Frame

 

Frame: Cannondale CAAD 10, Size 50, White
Groupset: Shimano Ultegra 6700
Stem & Handlebar: 3T Arx PRO & 3T Ergonova PRO
Wheels: Fulcrum Racing 7
Tyre: Vittoria Diamante Pro
Seatpost: Thomson Elite
Saddle: ISM Adamo Century

Total Weight: 8.4kg

Garmin 310XT QR Kit Setup

I made the purchase for the QR Kit on Amazon a few months back, but it was only recently that I took it out to fix it to my watch and my road bike. The installation itself was pretty straightforward, though I hope more illustrations were available on the manual itself.

Anyway, I took some photos of how I fixed it up and hopefully it will be of help to some.

Test Post 1

Managed to forward my domain name to link with Blogger. Initially thought to be tough, but it works out fine. :)