Good Bye 11, Welcome 12

In another a few more hours (13 hours to be exact), its going to be 2012. What have you achieved this year and was it good or bad?

So far, the things that I did this year were;

1. My first 70.3 Ironman and managed to finished it without much a problem. (AVIVA 70.3 Ironman Singapore)

2. Participated and got prizes (money) for Olympic distance triathlon. 2nd place in ABDB triathlon (local race) and 15th place in the age category Sarawak International Triathlon.

3. 2nd time competing in Powerman Malaysia (the last time was in 2008) and hoping to break sub 4 hours but only managed to reduce 2 minutes of my previous time.

4. 1 month after that, competing in Brunei first ever Duathlon and I got 13th place out of 50 individual participants.

5. Participated in a few running races such as 5km youth run, national day run, SCB charity run, SOSRO run, Larian Hari Keputeraan, Tasek Climbathon, HSBC Walk Run Cycle, UBD Convo run and etc.

6. Participated in Borneo Marathon – 21km category and did not managed to break my 21km record. That was the only international run that I’ve participated.

7. Did 2 cycling road race and wasn’t very proud of my results. All of it I was in the back peloton.

8. Participated in Telbru Team Time Trial road race and I was very happy with my performance even though our team did not managed to achieved our target of getting top 5 or 6. We got 8th place.

9. My other sports: Ultimate frisbee. Did 3 tournaments. KK Ultimate Hat, KB Ultimate and Andi’s Tourni. Formed a new team under the name UIA (UBD-ITB-Anakpanyu). Managed to get 4th and 5th place in KB Ultimate and 3rd place in Andi’s Tourni.

It has been a very exciting year and hopefully next year will be a more challenging year – planning to join Ironman distance triathlon.

Keep on doing it…………………………..

SCB CHARITY RUN 2012

http://www.bt.com.bn/happenings/2011/12/26/scb-charity-run-coming-april-8

2nd Andi Tournament 2011

The tournament was held last Sunday, 18th December 2011 at Padang Kebajikan, Berakas. A total of 8 teams – 1 from KK (headhunters), 1 from Sarawak (Ultras), 2 from Kuala Belait (Viking and Roadrunners) and 4 from BSB.

The pictures above is the team I am playing for. UIA Alliance which stands for UBD-ITB-Anakpanyu. This was our second tournament for this year. The first one was in June held at KB and our team got 4th and 5th place (we sent 2 teams at that time) and for this tournament we only sent 1 team and we got 3rd place. Wuhoooooooooooooo.

 

From the score sheet above, we only lost to the Ultras to advanced to the semifinal where we met with Headhunters of KK where we also lost.

For 3rd and 4th placing, we won against Viking 6-5.

 

Ali as the captain of the team receiving the prize for 3rd place.

   

   

The disc (frisbee) above is for the first place winner. Not so nice logo.

Christmas Labi Ride 2011

It was indeed a good ride today with Geotrax riders. Semuanya around 11 cyclists (3 anakpanyu and the rest from Geotrax)

We started our riding around 8:20am. Geotrax started from their shop in Lumut and met up with us as Sg Liang recreational park.

Most of the the time it was riding in group with a well maintained speed and everybody was well behave. It was a ‘happy ride’.

10km up and down the hill, we turn left to the new Kargu Dam – the new water dam for Belait District which is not yet fully operational.

Nonetheless, it was still riding up and down the hill and the good thing about it, there was no car here, so pretty much it was safe. 6.8km to the Kargu Dam.

A good place to do hill training. 6.8km in and 6.8km out again. 13.6km altogether. 2 to 3 laps should be enough.

Taking a break around 10 minutes and enjoying the view. The dam is not full yet, still accumulating the water.

The journeys continues after the Kargu Dam to the Labi shop which was around 28km more. We rest, refill, unload and continue again riding back to the checkpoint at Sg Liang recreational park.

I was the first rider to be left behind at one of the hill and rode all the way alone for another 20km. The riders from Geotrax was fully fit and well trained by Reduan. Syabasss (malunya aku).

 

  

Keep on riding and for sure I will come again next year.

BRUNEI AIDS DUATHLON 2012 – RESULTS AND RACE REPORT

This is a long overdue report because I was waiting for the pictures and the waiting was not worth it because of the quality of the pictures weren’t that good. low resolution.

It was held 11th December 2011, almost 2 weeks ago and all the feelings and memories are not so fresh anymore.

 

Everyone start at the same time, Male & Female. As expected, the faster runners take the lead and the pace was very fast. In this event, there were 3 groups – the runner, the cyclist and the triathlete. The runner, of course lah they would be running fast just to get away from the other competitors.

What surprises me was the cyclist. The national cyclists were running fast chasing the runners leaving us the triathletes behind.

Triathletes like Zaeidi, Moza, JJ, Azizul and Me, we were taught to reserve our energy and do not go all out, the correct word is ‘pacing’. But as we don’t want to be left behind, then we followed them. For the 1st 5km run, most of our time was like running a 5km race. Way too fast.

 

My 1st run was around 25 mins and I guess I was somewhere in mid pack. 50km bike ride managed to do an average speed of 35.5km/hr and caught a lot of cyclists. I think nobody managed to overtake me. No cramped on the bike leg. phuhhh

The last 5km run, my leg was a bit heavy but not as heavy as during the Powerman. 1 individual and 1 team runner managed to overtook me and I didn’t managed to catch anyone.

I’ve finished the race within my targeted time which was below 2:30:00 ( I finished 2:25:07). Actually I have 2 targets which was to finish in top 10 and below the time of 2:30. 1 out 2 target is ok lah.

Surely this race was for cyclists. 1st, 2nd and 5th prize winners are cyclists while 3rd and 4th are triathletes.

Male Individual Results.

Male Team Event

Mixed team

Female Team 

Finally, it was a good well organized event. The only thing was the last 5km run. The water station was too far away. It should have been around 2.5km mark or at least 3km mark. It was a hot day and the water station was at around 4km mark. Other than that, everything as excellent. Syabassssss.

RUN-BIKE-RUN DUATHLON – DRY RUN REHEARSAL

 

http://mail.bruneitimes.com.bn/news-national/2011/12/05/run-against-hivaids-dec-11

It was indeed a successful rehearsal not just for the organizing committee but also for the duathletes to test their readiness for the competition.

Around 15 athletes showed up and most of it are the familiar faces. Those addicted to competitive racing even though it is just a test run.

The run started around 7am. The weather for that day was very good. nda jua panas, nda jua hujan. mendung sahajaaaa. The 1st run was a 5km run and everyone was in a good mood, no testing testing power. Everybody running in a group with a pace around 6min/km.

Then come the 50km bike ride. This was not a ‘santai’ ride. The ride started as a big group with a normal speed of 35k/h but as we reached Sg Akar highway, the speed just went up to 40 / 45k/h. So from start to end, the average speed was around 38km/h. It was fast crazy.

Then for the last run, it was everyone own pace. Most of us just did around 2.5km run (the actual run is 5km).

For me, the bike and the last run was in race pace mode and it feels good. I was in good condition. Hopefully during race day, it will be like this and hopefully better than this. No cramps.

Ready for the race……….. 

Phuket IRONMAN 70.3 – BRUNEI TRIATHLETE RESULT

The event was held last Sunday, 4th December 2011. 

Note:

For Now, He is 3X Ironman 70.3 Finishers (AVIVA Singapore, Putrajaya Malaysia, Phuket) and 2X Ironman Finishers (Langkawi and Western Australia)

WORLD AIDS DAY 2011 – BRUNEI EVENTS