LOF BAKERY CYCLING CHALLENGE 2011

Event	LOF Cycling Challenge 2011
Organizer	Brunei Darussalam Cycling Federation (BDCF)
Sponsor	LOF Bakery Sdn Bhd
Distance	Male – 76.6km Female – Circuit 14.8km X 3
Date & Time	Sunday, 8:00am, 26th June 2011
Start & Finish	Brunei Darussalam National Stadium, Berakas
Categories	1. Individual Under 23 and Novice 24 to 34 years 2. Individual Junior Veteran 35 to 45 years (1966 to 1976) 3. Individual Senior Veteran 46 years and above (1965 below) 4. Individual Female open (16 years and above) 5. Team of 5
Main Rules & Regulations	For Male categories, cyclists are to be registered as a team of 5 and can be mixed categories in the team
Registration Fees	1) B$50 per team 2) B$10 per person who is not yet a member of BDCF or expired membership 3) B$5 for UCI license for those who has no license 4) Additonal B$10 per person for international cyclists
Registration Dateline	Sunday 19th June 2011
Registration Form	Can be downloaded at http://bruneicycling.weebly.com/lof-bakery-race-2011.html OR Can be obtained from 1) Triple Star Kiulap 2) BDCF Office, Brunei Darussalam National Stadium, Berakas. (Under the BIG staircase)

HSBC WalkRunCycle Charity Event

The event was held on a wet Sunday morning, 22nd May 2011 at Taman SOAS, BSB.

Sosro 10k charity event

 

Event	Sosro 10Km Charity Event
Organizer	Handsome Enterprise
Distance	10 Km
Time & Date	6:30am, Sunday, 3rd July 2011
Venue	Indoor Stadium, Berakas
Registration Fees	B$10
Website	http://www.sosro10k.com

Race Report: Pehin Yahya Road Race 133km

Some pictures are from Brunei Darussalam Cycling Federation

The race was held last Sunday, 15th May 2011 and the participations was BIG !!!. 80 cyclists registered for the event – 16 teams. It was record breaking. It means that a lot of local cyclists are taking up road race as one of their enjoyment of pleasure, not just bicycle expedition.

As predicted, less than half finish the race because some of the cyclists didn’t have enough time to train because the race was announce 2 weeks before the event. Banyaklah yang berjuritan di highway bertinggalan termasuk akulah………….

Group photo before the race. The 5th member (Centre) is our National rider – Faizal Hj Ahmad to strengthen our Team. The categories of the race are individual race and group race. For group race, only 3 cyclists needed to finish the race to score the total fastest time.

  

Our team car with spare wheels. The race start exactly at 8am in the morning

GOOD LUCK TEAMS. ENJOY AND SAFETY FIRST.

During the managers meeting the day earlier, everyone requested for a rolling start or more precisely controlled speed. So it was agreed that the ‘Com 1 Car’ will be in front controlling the speed at 30km/h and after 5.5km which is near /under the Tiong Hin Round-About bridge, the Com 1 Car will speed off and the race will start.

After the 5.5km, the speed increases tremendously – 45km/h and above and my heart rate was way above max. It was difficult just to stay in the peloton. I was left behind somewhere after the Blue Lake Police Booth. That was around 40km. They keep on doing interval which I cannot keep up.

First there was 4 of us and then another group of 5 or 6 cyclists managed to catch us from the back and we become a group of cyclists who are determine to finish the race and giving up is not an option.

The only problem with this group is that we are not really trying to catch up with the peloton. We are just maintaining our speed 30 to 37km/h. We don’t want to quit but at the same time don’t want to catch the peloton.

If we had tried to reduce the gap and time difference, a lot of us would have managed to finish within the 30 minutes cut off time. Well most of us are just newbie, beginners, inexperience racers. If we work together as a team, that would work.

 

My recorded time using Garmin and the transponder is the same. Just look at that average speed 32.8km/h – This is what you call ‘speed makan angin’. Very Poor.

Faizal, Zaeidi and then Reza managed to finish within the 30 minutes cut-off time after the 1st finisher. Reza has only 3 minutes before the time was stop. After 30 minutes, those finishers will be considered Did Not Finish (DNF). So after Reza, there were 14 cyclists who managed to finish the race but was considered DNF. I was 39 minutes behind the 1st cyclist. Argghh…… the frustration.

Official results, My team – Anakpanyu Cycling Team got 7th place for the group categories. Out of 16 groups, only 8 teams managed to finish the race.

Bicycle race is much more difficult and frustrating compared to running a race. In cycling, you need to join group cycling if you need to build up endurance, speed and strength. Training individually will only help you very very very little. During a race you need to stay with the main peloton and if you ever got drop and fall behind, it will be very difficult for you join back the peloton and there the time gap that you have to watch out. If you’re time gap between the peloton and you are more than the allocated time, then you are required to stop – DNF. See how difficult is the race.

In running, you can train individually and or in group mode. The advantage is still group training. More benefits. During the race, there is no peloton, no chaser, no break away. You just run your own race.  the Elite/Pro runners have their own strategies but for us the normal runners we are not bothered what the Elite are doing. The time limit given are more than enough. For 21km the time given to complete the race is sometime 3hours and even I’ve seen it was given 5 hours. For 42km, you are given 7 hours and even sometime 9 hours. That is more than enough for those who train very little or do not train at all. ‘Bulih abis bah tapi dalam kesakitan’

For running, your long run should be around 1 to 2.5 hours (10km to 26km) for a 21km event. For cycling, long ride should be between  3 to 5 hours which is around 90km to 160km.

For me, I need to improve in my speed and interval. I got tired easily if it is speed interval. Maintaining constant high speed I can do it, but interval, that would just drain my energy out.

Coming up is another road race for Novice riders in June. So this time no Elite/National riders will be participating. No date has been set but most probably it would be 26th June 2011. Distance is less than 100km, probably 80km. So to all racers out there, you still have time to train since it is more than a month way and it is a shorter distance.

Keep on training……………………………..  

runbikeswim expo

 

http://www.runbikeswimexpo.com/info.html

BIBD CHARITY EXPEDITION FOR JAPAN

Information from BIBD Website

Event	Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam (BIBD) Charity Expedition for Japan
Organizer	Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam Berhad
Categories	Charity Cycles – 58km Charity Run 11.4km
Time & Date	Sunday, 7:00am, 19th June 2011
Venue	Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium
Registration Fees	Cycle - BND$20 Run - B$15
Registration Dateline	Wednesday, 4:00pm, 1st June 2011 and can be sent to 1. BIBD Main Branch, BSB 2. BIBD Manggis Branch, Kg Manggis 3. BIBD Kiulap Branch, Kiulap
Registration Form	Download Here

Charity Cycle Map - 58km

Charity Run Map - 11.4km

Kejohanan Lumba Basikal Terbuka Kebangsaan Pehin Dato Awang Haji Yahya 2011 – THE RESULTS

Results obtained from www.theraceboy.com and Brunei Darussalam Cycling Federation (BDCF)

 

  

No of Teams	16
No of Cyclists	80
No of finishers	32
No of Team finishers (3 or more cyclists)	8
Full finishers in a team (5 finishers)	0
Most numbers of finishers in a team	4 finishers – 1) Siap8Malam 2) MWM Cycling Team 3) Jati Racing Team
DNF Cyclists	48
DNF Teams	8
Cyclists finishing the race outside the 30 minutes cut-off after the 1st finishers – unrecorded time.	Maybe 15 Cyclists
Teams with no finishers at all	5

RACE REPORT: BORNEO MARATHON 2011

The event was held last Sunday, 1st May 2011. This is my 2nd time ikut Borneo Marathon. Last year I did the 42km and this year I’ve decided to do 21km. I have exactly 2 weeks to prepare for the race after the Telbru Team Time Trial. Actually I’m not that worried because I still have my endurance and fitness and believe that I can finish below 2 hours. The problem is whether I have the speed to beat my previous time of 1:56 hours.

We went to KK by car on Saturday morning 8:30am and arrived around 3:40pm and went straight to the registration center to pick up our numbers and goodie bag.

My number and my timing chip (the circular ring) – old model unreliable.

We checked in to our hotel and then went out for our late lunch at KFC which was around 5:30pm. After that we went checking the route from our hotel – Dynasty Hotel to the Likas Stadium so that tomorrow morning it will be easy for us to find the stadium.

7:30pm, I’ve decided to have my dinner at Secret Recipe and most of the guys are still full, so they just have their drinks. I want to eat and sleep early. Nutrition and rest are important – so remember that.

 

Race day – Reached Stadium Likas around 5am and still have time before the race start at 5:30am. As usual, a must visit to the toilet – unloading some unnecessary load.

10 minutes before the race, I did a warm up around the track. Then did a little stretched here and there. Switched on my Garmin Forerunner – it didn’t turn on. I keep on pushing the button but nothing happen. Yesterday it was fine and last night I recharged it. Now my mental is ‘unstable’ or ‘kacau’. So now I have to wear this dead watch and won’t be able to keep track my pace and achieve my target time of 1:55. Another problem, I remember I brought 2 powerbar gel and attached it to my race belt and when I checked it, it was only ONE. aaarrgghhhhhhhhh……………

So I tried to re-focus on my strategy. Maybe I can still achieve my target time. I’ve decided to run by monitoring my heart rate – breathing. Try to run below the threshold level where my breathing is not kucar kacir.

The race start at 5:30am and I staredt around middle of the pack and slowly cutting to the pack. I’m not sure where is Zaeidi and my brother Hj Abidin but they must be somewhere near.

At around 4km mark, Zaeidi overtook me and this is usually the usual scenario. He always overtook me the first few kilometers and sometimes I managed to overtook him again and sometime no. I just maintained my ‘unknown’ pace and slowly Zaeidi disappeared in the sea of runners.

Since the route is a loop where after the half-way point, the run to the finish line will be the same route as the first 11km so we can see the leading runners. A few hundred meters before reaching the half-way point, I saw my brother Hj Abidin is already at the other side and a few meters behind was Zaeidi. So both of them are not that far away from me – less than 1km. So for sure-lah with confidence I can catch them. Refill my energy using my one and only Powerbar Gel – Chocolate single caffeine at the half-way point, drink some water and increase my speed.

I know I can catch them because I have the endurance, speed and experience. For both of them, they already used up their speed and sooner or later they have to slow down. Endurance they have but experience, I have the advantage.

8km-to-go checkpoint, I overtook Hj Abidin and never looked back because he won’t be able to follow me, so nothing to be worried. I saw Zaeidi around 400 meters infront, so I’ve decided to control my pace, not to fast not to slow. Give him time and from the way he is running, he is suffering. Nearing the 2km-to-go checkpoint, I overtook him and increase my pace just in case he decided to catch me. I keep on looking back but he was nowhere behind me. Either he slowed down or stop. Yeaaaa…..victory is all mind.

I crossed the finishing line and I’m confident that I’ve managed to finish under 2 hours but not so sure whether I managed to beat my time of 1:56. A few days later, the official result was published and I’ve only managed to run in 1:57:14 – Gun Time. If it is chip time most probably my time would be around 1:56:XX. Better luck next time.

Point to remember – Always bring a spare watch.

Next target is to beat my time for 5km or 10km – SCB Charity Run but that would be difficult because of the MOF Hill. And if I decided to do 10km, I’ll try to outrun some ONE – let see if I can catch him because his pace (faster than me) is not that far from mine.

Keep on running………………………..