bike race in Muar

sunday was a looooong day. we got up at 415am (i actually got up at 330am cos i went to the bathroom and couldn't fall back asleep) and got ready to drive up to Muar for a bike race. left the house at 5am, bumped into Lester and Greg at the S'pore checkpoint. 2 hours later and we were pulling into Pagoh. we were REALLY early. note to self: never listen to the hubby when he says you need to leave at XX time for any race. tack on at least another 45 mins and you'll be about right. hah.

so after visiting a gas station to use the bathroom and driving slooooowwwwlllyyyy to the starting point, we were still a good hour and a half early. the singapore contingent finally showed up an hour or so later. the race that was supposed to start at 8:30 didn't get rolling till 9:20am. sigh.

loads of wives/other halves came to the race. was surprised at how many showed up. guess the fact that it was a day event as opposed to a stay-over had something to do with it.

the race was really short. 78km including a 30km rolling start. it was supposed to be 100km. yeah. imagine the guys' surprise when they round the corner thinking they have 25km more to go and see the finish line. yeaaahhhh...

unfortunately a couple of the guys got hurt in a crash - ben and melvin hurt their shoulders and eddie got some road rash. definitely sucks to see ppl you know get hurt. =(
Us before the race. It's a good thing they make those t-shirts roomy!
Whole team pic
Start line...
Coming back to the peloton after taking a leak...
Standard M'sian race scenery

as usual, we stood around for over an hour and a half in the sweltering hot sun waiting for the results and prize giving. as usual, the results were still erroneous despite the waiting time. oh well. the only plus point? we managed to chow down on some durian. Mimi managed to get a van to pull up with durian and they threw up a tent and started opening 'em up. we had no idea who was paying, how many they were opening.. nothing... who cares about all the details when there's durian being opened up in front of you!!!

Hubby, Melvin and Yusoff pigging out

New way to open durians.
All medalled out..

left shortly after, booked it straight home so that we could miss the jam. still got stuck at the tuas checkpoint for a half hour or so. came home, washed up, unloaded and then headed off to church. had dinner at the 'rents and then came home and CRASHED. we crawled into bed at 930pm and i didn't get up till 8am the next morning. for me, that's an absolute record cos i haven't slept through a nite in a loong loong time since i got pregnant.

so yeah, that was our crazy sunday. can't believe it's only wednesday.. this week has been insane and it's not getting any better.... ugh.