MIND WONDER: I DID NOT DO TOO WELL.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

I DID NOT DO TOO WELL.

A day after my climb at Tabur, I am trying to figure it out what went wrong. I usually do not get tired too easily and at one time could hike two different hills on the same day and within 6 hours. But yesterday I could only to one and by then my legs were hurting and I was feeling the heat literally. Perhaps the weather was just too hot? I had planed to hike tabur west and east back to back with a group of friends. About 15 hikers turn up at the appointed meeting place which was Deen's nasi kadar restaurant just some where near the hills we were suppose to climb. I had scheduled to hike at 7.00am but as usual there will be late comers and so it was delayed by another half hour. Anyway we proceed to tabur east to park our vehicles , crossed a stream to tabur west to do our climb. It was our pre chinese new year celebration on the hill. I brought a bottle of wine . Could it be the effect of the wine that was the cause of my poor performance? Or was it lack of sleep. I did retired early the night before, but I woke up at 4.00am even though I had set the alarm to ring at 5.20am. It is an hour drive to the destination. Normally I would use the short cut through the plantation which will save us a good half an hour, but this time I wanted to use back the same way we climb up. Could this be the cause of my tireness? The only to find out is to do another experiment. Yesterday I fail to do the two hikes as posted on the event on facebook. After our first hill some opt out to go to the waterfall and so they took the short cut down hill. We bade them safe journey and proceed to descend . After one and a half hour we reached base. I told the remain group of five I could not continue and they have to proceed without me.

I was not too please with my climb yesterday. Even on my worst day I will still be able to continue, but yesterday I had to throw in the towel. One rule I had set for myself was never to push myself too hard and listen to my body. Come back to "fight" another day, and comeback I will before I go to my happy hunting group. That is a promise.