Sunday, 16 October 2011

Day 1 in Langkawi tropical island...

So yesterday was the first day of the Langkawi island holiday and 5 day MTB stage race.

Andrew Mock (cross country skiing friend) and myself decided to start. The trip by doing a full lip of the island in style...scooter style that is. For just $10 we hired a scooter each and set off to find the sights of the island.

It was unbelievable to be racing mountain bikes on the tropical island and something that I struggled to come to grips with all day. I found myself laughing out loud and smiling uncontrollably for most of the day :-)

Racing starts tomorrow with a 65 km marathon. There are some big names here like south African Burry Stander and Chris Froome from the roadie world so racing will be hard and fast. I'm trying to enjoy the calm before the storm :-) I chucked up some more photos bellow and hopefully they work :-) internet here is a little sketchy.
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