Life Served Sunny Side Up & Rainy Days Down: Port Dickson International Triathlon

22 July 2007, Sunday - It was the second day of the Port Dickson International Triathlon 2007 which was also a leg in the Asian Cup Series. Due to bad weather the Elite team (participants of the Asian Cup Series) and the Olympic distance team were flagged off together instead of the Elite team racing the day before as scheduled...

Sadly, I woke up at 5.30 am... :( just to be there on time to watch the entire event... Isuzu was the Official Car for the entire event and just so happen, Yin and Kannan were participating... So I became a busy busy and joined along... It was kinda cool since we were the sponsors, we could get into all the areas which were restricted only to participants.. Could see them all getting their numbers written on their bodies.... then went right next to the flag off area by the sea for the first event which was a 1.5km swim in the chilly choppy sea... It was not something I would want to get into... So off they went at 8.00 am with all the participants flagged off in 4 waves of 3 minutes intervals... The first one out of the water was Kimberly Yap our National Triathlete... She did it in 20 minutes I think... Fuiyoo..wat a feat... There were all sort of participants.. Male, female, young, old, skinny and fat.... The only thing they had in common is the goal of finishing the entire race...

So once out of the water came the cycling... 40km distance on an uphill and downhill road... not too steep but plenty of ups and downs... Again we were lucky enough to be able to drive our car alongside the race itself... Some were actually quite relaxed and heppi.. even posed for our cameras... The Elite team, being elite was really head and shoulders above everyone else... when everyone was heading towards the midway mark to u-turn, they were already on their way back...

Finally came the final leg... which was the 10km run.... Just watching them I was getting tired... haha!!! Phew...!! Good thing I was in the car.. It wasnt so good for them since it started raining quite heavily and those who were late were the ones worst off coz they had to endure the rain the entire way.... poor them...

And so the race ended.... a guy named Hsieh from Hong Kong came in first place for the male category which Kimberly Yap can in first for the female category... Yin and Kannan both finished the race... Yaay!! i think Yin even beat her own record.. the last time she did it, she took 2 hrs 59 mins but this time round she took 2 hrs and 39 mins... fuiyoo!! She is powderful...

But the biggest news of the day was what my MD said.. He was thinking to sponsor this event long term if the event was successful and if so he said we needed to form an Isuzu Team... Aiyo... cham... he was looking at Han Kee, Joseph and me while saying this and said "You all can...".. haha!! die lor.. if we really have to, I will be so Isuzu-fied... weekdays and weekends will be filled with Isuzu..anyone wanna join me training? hehe... Han Kee and Joseph both said they will use butterfly stroke throughout the swimming leg... haha!!! fuiyoo!!! dun play play...

Kondo-san, Me and Joseph.... :) behind us is the flagged off for the first leg; swimming...