Outdoing myself

I believe everyday is a day earned in life, a gift from God and I would live everyday doing things I want to do and live with no regrets.
Last weekend was one of those moments. Friends including peng seng, peng soon, eric, chun seng, ah mark have initially invited for a ride from Kampung Raja in Cameron Highlands to Kuala Lipis in Pahang and back. That turned out to be a ride from Kampung raja-habu-bertam valley-betua-raub (one day, 166km)-frasers hill (20km uphill climb)-kuala kubu baru-tapah-brinchang-kampung raja (240km) in 2 days!
the first day was a climb up to brinchang before going down to kuala lipis. 166km was already a feat to me as the longest ride i have ever done on any bike was 130km...i have never been so free about drinking carbonated drinks my whole life, never felt so guilt free gulping down gallons of coca-cola and 100plus! reaching raub at 3.30pm was not bad at all! there was already much pain to have to sit on the seat by then. the two cheeks of the buttock felt like they've been slapped 200 times by the imperial court guards of the olden days.
the night at raub was a sweet sleep, but only to have to wake up again the next morning at 4am to prepare to start for the ride back at 5am. it was a ride we were getting ready to ride from moonlight to moonlight as the gang decided to take frasers hill and tapah to go back up to cameron highland.
I could still vividly remember the climb up to cameron highland (60km) via simpang pulai 4 months back. every communication tower was a torture, every km in the last 10km was like struggling to stay alive suffocating in a water sealed tank.
I don't know why i have agreed to do this route this time around, I thought I was crazy to believe I could do it but I know I have friends who will help me around me. For that alone, I had the courage to go with them. For the words that they have said, I went ahead. Things like going this way would be an easier way than the orignial route, to think only to the next town to reach instead of dreading the next 240km that we have to complete in the day, to have the determination to complete what we have started gave me so much strength and energy to go on and on and on...of course...with the support of lots and lots of coca-cola and 100plus all the way!!
the weather was so hot in the midday travelling from KKB to tapah...scorching hot sun forced us to kidnap an ice cream man and finished up all his ice creams for the day in his little chilled box sitting on his motorcycle out of no where in the highway after tanjung malim!!
the 84km climb up to cameron is the last leg of the challenge. The stars came to watch us by the time we set out from 14th miles up the tapah way. the next town to come was Ringlet. After Ringlet, we had to continue to climb up and up and up to brinchang and to EQ (equatorial hotel) and down and up and down and down and up back to kampung raja. It was already 10pm by then. To be back, with no cramps all the way, no puncture with my sleek tyres through the offroad in bertam valley and all through...it was hell of a great ride with a bunch of great friends.it's God's gift!
There's really no limit to what you can do with your life....it's whether you want to take the challenge.