Ramadhan Nite Ride

This year the holy month of Ramadan eventually arrived. Ramadan is the holy moth by Muslim where eating and drinking (anything insert into a body) is prohibited during the days. It’s like cleansing the soul and it’s a month good deeds. Unless like previous year, I stop cycling for a whole month, but this year, some of the guys try to pinch a wee bit of time to get the sweat out. It is not like we ignore the holy month, but the good time of the day to cycle is after 10pm.

So this year, I try to get out and as every last Friday of the month, Putrajaya Criticalmass still continued this month. The difference is, it start a bit late which is 11pm. Last Friday, I packed up my bike and headed to Putrajaya for the night ride. That particular night was quit a night for the cyclist, where I spotted 2 groups of cyclist did a run in Duke Highway as I passed by.

As planned, I arrived there and waited for Aze and Aidi. I arrived about 1030pm and look like quit a numbers turn out that night. Its not as many like normal night, but it still reach about 50 people participated. Due to some people arrived a bit late, the event started about 1130pm and the organizer made a simple brief where the route will we paddle to. From the Hall of Justice we started paddle to the PICC, there we circle around the PICC which there was our first up hill climb. It was a slow paddling pace, I wonder when is the real push going to be, it is will be a slow pace all night long? Then, we all head up to the Alamanda, until there we been cycle about 10km in slow pace. From there, the real action is begun where we cycled in huge open highway to PICC. That route was where the speed action begins, where the roadies made a sprint and the mtb trying to catch up. We all gather back at the PICC and had a quick break, waited for the rest. Unlucky, one of the riders had an over limit energy consumption. He vomited and had to rush to nearby hospital because of dehydration and lag of energy. Later, after the event, I told that he only had a bread for breakfasting, training for the whole evening and been cycled from Bukit Jalil to Putra jaya. No wonder he passed out.

We end back to Hall of Justice about 130pm and made a 36km run that night. It is unusual for me to cycle in Ramadan and this time the route took quit tougher that any previous months. At least, I was being continually maintaining my fitness, even though in Ramadan.