Riding Blog

I have decided to create another blog to for riding activities. In this case, this blog will be delicated to other activities such as sight seeing, food, etc. Do visit my riding blog.

龙王山-安吉

Went to Long Wang Shan to ride. The ride basically is an uphill 22km from sealevel 100 to 1300m. It rained in the mid way so I am all drenched. Some pictures.

Near the foot of the hill, begining to climb.

Half way climbing, still strong

Drenched by the time I reached the top.

赤壁

I was having my leave so I took my family to watch 赤壁. Very well shot movie and the story line was good. I start to learn a little bit more about the chinese history of those characters in the movie. I was hoping that the movie can finish within one episode. So, when will the next episode be? Summer 2009?

Football matches

Sunday, Aug 10 was raining at Shanghai. We were to watch Olympic football matches at the Shanghai Stadium. We went to Shanghai earlier, had lunch at Super Brand Mall. This mall is huge. 9 levels of shopping, foot and entertainment. After lunch, we windows shop a bit and left the mall at 2:45pm. Our driver alighted us at the Lian Hua station on line 1 subway. Took the subway and head to the stadium. We were drenched when we get to the stadium because there is a 500m walk from the subway exit to the stadium. Fortunately, the stadium has shelter. The security was pretty strict, no bottle water, no long umbrella, bags are X-ray... but fast.

These two matches were good. Argentina won Australia 1:0 while Serbia won Cote D'Ivoire with a score of 4:2. The 2nd match was much more exciting and more aggressive and fast. Within 3mins, Serbia scored first goal comparing to the first match of Argentina vs Australia where there is not much of excitment till the 2nd half.

A shot of the Shanghai stadium.

There are pocket of Argentina fans among the chinese but not too many supporters for Australia.

Overall, the excitment was good.

Will be watching Olympic soccer game

We will be heading to Shanghai Stadium watching the two Men Olympic soccer matches. The first will be Argentina vs Australia and the 2nd will be Serbia vs Cote D'Ivoire. This will be my family first time watching live soccer matches. I hope that the atmosphere will be very exciting.

By the way, we were back from An Ji, Zhe Jiang Province, up hill cycling trip. It was a 22km up hill ride. Will post the pictures later.

Olio???

Bought the "OLIO" couple of weeks ago and did have a chance to try it out. Today, after dinner, I opened the package and it tasted awful. Throw away the whole pack after one bite. Anyway, lesson learnt, do not be garang to try out such stuff.

Yu Yang Shan Again

Rode 100km from my place to Yu Yang Shan passing through Suzhou City then Mu Du and finally Yu Yang Shan next to Tai Hu. Surprisingly, today group is even bigger with almost 40 cyclists mainly from Giant and Merida. The SZR thread and the Merida thread.


At Yu Yang Shan, I rode up to the top of the hill on the tar road. The distance is short, maybe 2km max but not that straight forward. It is tough... siong... Well, this is like a pre training for next week 22km with up hill climb of 1300m. That will be even tougher but no pain no gain.

Me at the top of the mountain.


Show you another picture of what the local chinese do to their spare tire...

This is how they do diving... brave...