It’s exactly a week away from the much anticipated City Duathlon which is taking place in Marina Bay. In this event, one has to run 10 km, cycle 40 km, and then end the race with another 5 km run (not to be mixed up with biathlon, which consists of a 1.5 km swim and 10 km run).

Today in the afternoon, I’ve finally put aside some time to do my duathlon training. I started my 10 km run first, taking the usual AMK/Bishan route. Weather was good today with slight drizzle, and I averaged a pace of 5:52 min/km and took 59 minutes to complete.

Next up was the cycling section. I wanted to do a 40 km, but didn’t really had in mind what route to take. Ended up passing by places like Upper Pierce, Chong Pang, Sembawang, then back to Yishun, Lentor and up to Bishan and Toa Payoh before finishing at my block. Woah, exactly 40 km!

Riding alone was boring, and I had to try lotsa stunts to keep myself entertained. Whenever I passed by pedestrians that were looking my way, I did a silly grin (like how Shinny and company always did to me during Thurs assemblies). When I saw little kids waiting to cross the road at the traffic light junctions, I stuck out my tongue a la Elysia’s Style, and they usually turned away to their parents whom backs were facing me. Haha.. felt good and care-free that I could do stuff that I can’t usually do when I had to maintain a teacher’s image. Oh well..

Anyway, I’ve achieved an average speed of 27.1 km/hr and completed my ride in 1 hr 28 min. That made the total time taken for my training today to be a little less than 2 hr 30 min (I didn’t run the final 5 km). Well, if things turn well, I might be able to achieve a sub-3hr timing during the actual next week. (That is if I can find some kind soul to help transport my bike to the starting point, so energy would not be wasted on travelliing.) Nevertheless, I’ll keep my fingers crossed and hope for a sub-3hr!