2011 NTU Bike Rally - Completed!
First 'official' ride of the year. This is the first time I participated in this event and boy, no regrets. It's a real mixed bag and I opted to try to chase the fast ones and managed to keep up. Good thing there were a lot of stop points (every 20km or so..)
Garmin data as below....only tracked 140km...lost 8km of data as I forgot to switch it on upon leaving NTU rest point.
2011 NTU Bike Rally by boostbutt at Garmin Connect - Details
This year, KL, Ben and I participated. We rode from our homes, met up at the usual Nicoll H'way stop and went to the F1 pit. About 1000 people signed up for the event...I think perhaps 800-900 turned up. We were mostly together during the rides until after NTU where we kinda split a bit but still meet up at the rest points.
I managed to complete the last 4 stages with the fastest group (arriving at rest stops which were empty!) with the Coastal one being the most brutal as cramps started to creep in. There, I took turns with the lead guy to pull each other along the straight. Headwind was crazy and we were doing 40km/h ave more or less...we thanked each other! Completed the event with the head group....we were the first group to finish!
All in all a good ride, very well organized, pretty safe and worth to do again next year.
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