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mekong is over. mekong is OVER. never going back.
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basically the race course was pretty good. get to swim with the current down the mekong river, then bike up and down lotsa rolling hills. run is pretty flat cept for a slight upslope near the uturn. so yeah, a perfect race course donch'a think? well think again. when you factor in the FOURTY PLUS DEGREE HEAT. yeah you heard me right. FOURTY PLUS DEGREE HEAT.
swim was quite okay. nice to swim with the current. cut my time by what? 8mins? haha amazing. they should make it compulsory to swim with the current. hurhur. mmm transition was messy cos i dropped my helmet THREE TIMES. what a joke.. then my muscles died on me. couldn't pedal up those slopes. so against the headwind, i was going at like 17kph?! ahha some insanely slow pace. till i managed to draft 2 other people. lost them on the way back when they upped the pace. then went on my own for a good long time before i managed to keep up with some thai age groupers. didn't get to drink much on the bike ride cos i was too busy freaking out over my lack of people to draft. oh not to mention the severe back cramps i was going through. i really need to do sth about my seat and handlebar adjustments...
right. things were going fine till there. quite okay i suppose. then onto the run. holey fishes, chickens, ducks and cows. i couldn't move. going at what? 7 min pace?! haha. i was melting. dehydrated. and delirious. every single water station, i'd pour two cups of ice cold water on my head. and i'd feel severely shocked. like i was going to go into some kind of muscle spasm or something. hah. thoughts of giving up crossed my mind so many times during that run. it's the hardest 10k i've done in my life. managed to complete it, in a shitty time. agh. got trashed in the last 2.5k. feel like i've let myself and lotsa ppl down. dammit. but i was really dying... miracle that i didn't faint.
yeah crossing the finish line was.. hm. the moment i crossed the line and pressed the "stop" button on my watch. i just let go. haha collapsed into the arms of medics. all my muscles just.. uh gave way. hah and for quite some time i just sat there not knowing where i was. jiaolian poured lotsa ice water on me. and i drank many many cups of water. sat there for a good while before i finally managed to get out of the seat and walk. hm.
organisation for this race was horrid. i can safely say that this is the worst race i've gone for. but i guess it's only through this kind of races that newbies like me can learn so much. we almost missed our flight back.. gah. scary. running from terminal to terminal with those nasty bike boxes.
quite disappointed with myself. looks like i'm going into mourning for the next few days. hah. mourning over the death of my pride and self esteem.
i ate a WHOLE REESES CHOCOLATE BAR JUST NOW. what 16g of fat or something. haha. watch me balloon up.
my whole body is aching. this race was just such a motivation-killer. i also think i'm getting sick. massive headache now. with all these aching muscles. agh and i feel like i'm in the plane still...
GRRRR. forgive me, i haven't had time to sort out my post-race emotions.