the knights were riding in the night!

Saturday early morning showers put a huge damper on alot of people's sporting activities.. I heard that several jogging and running groups had to cancel their runs due to the rains.

I remembered waking up early, at 4am in the morning, and the thunder and the lightning was just so daunting! A quick check with the radar images and my heart sank.. and so it was back to bed...

The day was quite empty, the highlight of it was to bring the family out for some shopping and a nice lunch. Late afternoon came, and I had to do some chores. Collecting the stuff from ET and also going to visit that EskiMoo place for the ice cream. I had D24 ice cream and Guiness and ET had Tea Tarik and coffee/banana... strange flavors, but absolutely rich and delicious ice creams. We parted our ways, after getting those DELICIOUS goreng pisangs at long house.. my children TOTALLY enjoyed those.. by 5pm, the itch was too much, a quick SMS, to the regulars to meet at Fort Road, and surprisingly, a ride was born!!

Set off at 905pm, met Kuen at the usual place and it was a fantastic ride through the city. Sometime magical about riding through the city in the evenings.. 930pm at Fort Road and ET was there.. cool.. on time and ready to rock! Tim was to be cycling down the service road, and we were to meet him half way up. The service roads were madness! I have never experienced a traffic jam on the service roads before?! But not for long.. apparently, some inconsiderate taxi, restaurant goers, and a bus... we cut them off and soon we had the roads to ourselves again. And there was Tim.. just rolling down... we signalled.. and everyone was present and heading for checkpoint.
Paceline riding was great, I have recovered and I was able to hold the line and hold my lead. It was gorgeous that pumping hard and piercing through the night air... we reached checkpoint, probably in record time again..
Fellowship was great, we had a great time chatting and didnt believe that it was alrady past 11pm! We all had to go back to our wives.. afterall, it was going to be mothers' day tomorrow!
The ride back was nice. Tim went ballistic.. (as usual) and drafted.. yes drafted behind a speeding bus... I think Tim was doing about 45-50km... crazy angmo... anyway.. we met up again, somewhere down the coastal.. at the entrance of NSRCC, Tim had to split and it was ET, Kuen and myself..
we decided to go on the inside, instead of service roads.. and it was chaos! Bad choice... too many people, drunks, groupees, bladers etc etc.. almost had a crash! I think its always better to be at the service roads! Period!
On the way back, Kuen did the unthinkable, dashed a red light and was almost knocked down... I just dont know why he did it.. i went to him.. and he was in a daze too.
All in all, we all had a great ride.. and Saturday night isnt too bad a night to do some serious but fun riding... Hmmmmm.....