The usual suspects went... and the usual suspects got left behind. Again.
Anyway, the ROAMers that went:
Yamm | Oakley KSHYeti
Fadzlee,| Oakley KSHCemmencal
Amad | Oakley KSHIntense
Things did not go too well for some of us and went very well for others... In short, Amad and Fadzlee did not make it into the finals and u will know why in a sec. Yamm won the Master B cat. while Zure finished 2nd in Master A.
Here's what Amad had to say:
"well, good weekend for me.
pushed off from jakarta friday at 5 after work... the traffic was super massive heavy... i ended up reaching bandung at 12midnight, yes thats 7 hours. besides, i took the long way round instead the straight forward highway... i friend from my office recommended and i will never trust him after this.
saturday woke up at 5 and was at the track as early as 6am (the sun is up high already in bandung), met scott, feri and marta.. had mcd for breakfast. then wtf the registration not opened yet until 8, the organizing guy told me to come early.... wasted 2 hours waiting, might as well sleep to recover..
walked the couse and realized that the downhill part is only 10% overall (3 sets of strairs and basement parking lot ramp), the rest is pedalling. so i told my m3 that its going to be a hard work.
come seeding, i was the very first rider off the starting ramp... crossed the finish line with a slight problem at the very last "U-turn" (better described than a switchback), maybe 2-3 secs slow.... and the marshall told me that my timing wasnt right for some communication problem with the starter, and told me to start again as the last rider............ that really cut off my race mood, 70 riders in open and i have to wait again.
okay did my 2nd seeding and hit the basement stairs rail... it was such a tight place to recover and to get back on the bike. oh well a race is a race.
timed 1.40... 23rd in seeding and did not make it to final.."
and Fadzlee:
"i crashd during training in the morning on saturday.. it was the crash of the day. zure was riding behind me, he saw everything, even yamm saw it! he was beside the table top ramp. i was going too fast (that's why we call him fastlee - ed) before the table top jump and was over the jump and crash head first, basically a front flip!.. i hurt my back and arm, but still managed to continue in the seeding run with all that pain.. seeding run wasnt good either, crashed at the stair and hit the rail pretty hard but managed to complete the run, 6th place. The night before the final, the pain got worse, i could not even straighten up my arm let alone hold any kind of weight!.. so no final for me .."
Yamm was not available for comment after the race! hehehehe... we know why!
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