My Very 1st RI

My longest clocked distance was a decent 80km. One of my new year resolutions was to complete a Round Island (RI) trip. Daddy Lim did his earlier this year with the WWFs during the bike rally. On the noble account of taking care of the kids, I volunteered to miss the bike rally. In actual fact, I chickened out. The bike rally started at 7am and the sun is not my best friend. The thought of completing an RI under the hot sun was too scary. 

I jumped at the opportunity when one of the usual kas suggested a RI ride on Saturday morning as the usual morning ride was replaced by an evening durian ride. I love the idea of a morning ride bcos I am actually very much a morning person, largely dead by the end of the day. I doubt I have much energy left for a night RI.

To avoid much of the sun, we agreed for the ride to start at 4am. While it is an unearthly hour, it allowed less sun exposure towards the end of the trip. 

It was my 1st time cycling to Punggol to realise that it isnt that far from Jurong, only 30ish km. I mean, it takes an awful long time to drive from Jurong to Punggol and I had imagined it to be much further by bicycle. We then past by Pasir Ris enroute to Changi Village. These are familiar places from my growing up years but always by car or bus. 

Again, I was amazed that Changi Village (CV) is only about 50km away. That was also the much needed bfast stop and the sunblock slapping bcos Mr Sun was out. 

From CV to ECP, then finally to Barrage. 

By that, I was really exhausted. The remaining return trip was by will power and there wasnt much of it left. The sun was also draining the little left much faster. I was literally counting down the kms. At the last leg, I was much zonked out. My legs were spinning and my mind was somewhere else; my hands were not reacting much and every need to brake or steer was an effort. 

Finally after 6 long hours, we made it back home. The 1st ever 3 digits ride registered on my cateye. 

My cateye sometimes reset itself during ride and I am so thankful that it didnt this time bcos I forgot to restart the Strava when we stopped for bfast at CV. As a result, my Strava was "left" at CV and teleport back to JW, clocking merely 50ish km. Why like that? 

My legs were jellyish when we were finally home. We still had to bring Lil Shauna for her ice skating class. 累死我了... such that I dozed off at the coffee place in JCube while waiting for the kids to finish their Maths' class. 

I must be strong. That cat nap actually re-energize me. Daddy Lim was supposed to go for an evening durian ride with the WWFs in the evening and I offered to bring the kids to USS before our season pass expired tomorrow. 

Off we went to USS at about 5pm. 

The kids had been pre-warned about how exhausted their old mother was. 

We survived all right. The weather was not too warm after the rain and the crowd wasnt too thick. We managed to ride the exciting rides like 3x Cylone,  the Mummy ride and the Transformer ride. We even caught the Donkey Live show; the kids very 1st bcos they didnt quite understand the jokes when they were younger. 

Dinner was at the all familiar Sesame Street restaurant; we used to frequent that when the kids were younger.

We ended off our last USS visit for a while with a 8.30pm WaterWorks show. It had been a long time back since we caught the WaterWorks and we forgot how good it was. 

We opted to sit in the Splash Zone and had a good time getting slightly wet. 

Daddy Lim's durian ride was cancelled due to threatening rain and was able to pick us from USS. I so needed that. By that time, my battery was all time low; the early morning and long ride was again getting on me. 

Mummy Lim