Challenges Ahead

March 10, 2010

Its fast coming to mid-March and I realised today that my first duathlon ever will be this Sunday.

Let the nail biting commence.

Since January, I’ve been pushing my ass to start running at least once a week and doing some riding. Which is more activity that I’ve had in the past year but is still not enough. I believe the whole thing started with Alan asking me if I wanted to consider taking up road biking. And things sort of went from there. Among other things I’m doing, 2010 will be the start of challenging myself to progressively take my thing for sports to insane levels of…well, insanity.

Doing something insane in biking and running has always held a fascination for me. Swimming, not so much, I’ve never enjoyed being in the water too much. But the idea of riding punishingly grueling distances or running myself close to collapse is enticing. I’ve never had a chance to do it, because for a long while, I truly believed I was wasting everyone and my own time on pursuing something like that due to the fact that I’m inherently lazy and/or just don’t have the thing needed to do stuff like that. But among the changes I’ve made to myself this year, I intend to start believing that I can do shit like that until proven otherwise.

A few things I intend to do this year would be first up, the Tribob Singapore sprint series duathlon this Sunday. Followed by going for the Bike Asia endurance race solo, the Army half marathon and finally, the Singapore marathon at the end of the year. I might pick up one or two other oddities to do but that’s pretty much it.

In the long run, there’s the insane, self inflicted challenge of finishing the Bike Asia race solo next year with a respectable distance clocked and then doing the Adidas Sundown marathon. I’m still undecided though, whether I should hazard the full marathon or ultra-marathon.

So, after the duathlon, I’ll be starting to haul ass on bike and road to build up my endurance for the Bike Asia race. I’ve even gone and bought a skort to ride it in. Because, y’know, why just ride off road trails for 12 hours at a go? Do it in a skort too, eh?

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