Endtroducing...djball aka charleshui

It has been a very tough few months for Yvan and his family, massive campaign are in place for the search of compatible bone marrow, 1/5000 chance for Casuisian and 1/50000 chance for non-Casuisian. I hope you can find the right one, and fight over it! I have no religious belief but this word come to my mind 'You do the best, god do the rest.' Bonemarrowhk.blogspot.com Good luck my friend!

What is the motivation to do Bangkok Triathlon? Swimming in the Chao Phraya River? Bangkok is our backyard, if you think of the scene that only one hard morning and then all you can do is spending a few days and staying at the luxury hotel, enjoying great services, dining out at the nice restaurant at the reasonable prices, go shopping and party! Why not?! Especially that Bangkok Triathlon had been successfully organized for a few years since 2009 when Chrissie Wellington was still in TeamBB and won the race! The race had also been constantly attracting few hundred local and expat, the distance had also been extended from standard OD to 1.8k swim/55k bike/10k similar to LPT. Our friend Michal Bueck won overall champion last year and highly recommend this race! “The water in the river is a lot better than Science Park and Plover Cove in HK!”. So I decided to do it this year! Enrollment fee and travelling costs is reasonable! Only THB2500 for early bird entry, HK$8500 for 5D4N...

Motivation of doing this LPT because of the outperform in 2009, I wouldn't expect if this would not be better than last year, however... Training for this LPT is zero if I compare with last year, I didn't do any specific hill climb, didn't strengthen the upper body, didn't work on the core, didn't do any long run after the ironman Taiwan, I don't want to put any excuse from work stress but apparently it's quite true. Preparation?! After ironman Taiwan, my left knee was quite weak, only done 1 30k hilly ride, 50% club training (mainly swim), 1 x 40k cycling time trial, 1 x 10k run, that's it. Logistic-wise, this time is much simpler, we stayed in the laguna beach hotel is where nearest the swim start, transition, finish area, pasta party, simple and easy, we had a connected room with Fred and Su so we still got the feeling of sharing the villa, we can also hit the beach and cheap cafe with walking distance! Nice! Our new friend Tim and ...

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But we all support our loved ones and friends no matter what - thank goodness we have the desire and will to continue learning, pushing ourselves to see what we are made out of.  It doesn't matter what our time is, the important thing is that we are out there doing our best and learning with each training session and race.  It's all about the journey - not just the race result!!!  Well Done Charles for sticking it out b/c it is easier to give up then to keep on going, especially when it is a TOUGH day!!  You are now physically and mentally stronger than you were before Taiwan 70.3 and you can take that into your training and racing in the future!! Thank you for your message Joey.

Life had been too stressful in last 3 months, training was not on track, I did question myself whether I should do this race, but given that I have been doing triathlon for many years, I do keep myself training all years round, and the motivation from my team Sonic, to make myself no regret, I still give it a go. My G was training really hard for this race and keep motivate me, just take it easy and enjoy the surrounding, I will be fine. It became my belief. Arriving Kenting under the beautiful weather. Chill, sunny and wind, very mild temperature just perfect for sports! Until we rode on the race course to realize how windy is that. We rode and swam the course before checkin the bike, unlike Ironman China, I felt relax under this atmosphere, beautiful weather and place, feel like in the holiday more than a pure race, I keep this feeling until the evening. We finished the carboloading dinner at 7pm, back to room the pack up for race, I didn't take standard picture for my r...

The motivation to do this race started from year 2005 as a supporter with Alan, Madoka, Yann and Andrew Loong, what a good date! I actually signed it up in 2007 but got pull out by work schedule, finally done this until year 2009. I didn't really write race report for so long and here is my story. This is the course just slightly longer than OD distance so physically i should absolutely capable of doing this one, just the part I've concerned on the descending the steep hills, Lucky me to test ride most of the course on Friday so the confidence was there after climbing and descending those short but steep hills but unlucky that I might catch flu after that 2hrs ride in the heat, sudden change of weather when HK is quite cool. Sat night and race morning was feeling quite sick but I still walking okay so let's give it a "Tri"! The swim layout was a 1.2k ocean swim in triangle layout plus 600m swim across lagun, race mood was super with MC and dance music ...

All of our dearest friends, thank you so much for being part of the Charles and Gigi events from September to October, Bali to Shek O! Our parties wouldn't be the same without you!! cheers, Charles and Gigi ahah....some recap yeah, great party! we had a a lot great time with everybody! Friends some different circle break the ice and play! I believe people is one thing, music and the mood is another thing for the party! we unlimited grill, unlimited red wine, white wine, beer, wiskey....we talk we talk we drink we drink we hug we hug we kiss we kiss......I really have no idea when we friends fallen down or leave Shek O like a junkies....I checked my iPod my music played until 3:xxam!! awesome!! The final moment is Sing and Joy, Chi is holding MayWah and Elaine and they drunk like shit, G was lying down on the stairway, vomiting and we transferred her to the beach, felt like a medi in the troop do first aid for the private on the beach, after some time, Chi transfer MayWah and Elain...

Saturday ride and Wedding Bouquent Sunday: Cycling race, Jet-boating, Meeting friends Tour of Hong Kong Shanghai (Cycling Race, stage 1, Heng Fa Chuen) A very packed Sunday! First half was about cycling race in Heng Fa Chuen!! It's a very rare chance to see a lot of cyclists racing in my place! It makes Heng Fa Chuen becomes so busy and so green! Very happy for that, and very happy to support my cycling club "CMS Cycling"! Kenji was leading the team to do their best, Jermey was supporting in the background, also met Ivan, Raymond and Gabriel for their HSBC ride! Second half was about the sea! 6 hours of adventures with friends, music, wine, speed and full taste of swells! Speaking up all the way! We rode the waves from Aberdeen to Po Toi Island for seafood lunch, bumped into DanDan at the time we left! She is still looking very good! Then we rode all the way from Po Toi to Tai Long Sai Wan in Sai Kung! Alone the eastern shore of Hong Kong (off-shore sometime!!)! That was...

We just came back from our honeymoon and we are throwing the post-wedding party for all friends to eat and drink and recall our moments in Bali, we are also preparing some pictures to share! When? 5pm-11pm, Grill start from 6pm, Saturday 25 October, 2008 Where? Shek O back beach (see map, the entrance next to Shek O bus terminus) What? Music, our Bali wedding photo, Friends, Chat, drink, BBQ...so bring your friends/hubby/wivies/boys/girls/cats/dogs....we already have 50 friends confirmed, will be very crowd! Yeah!!! Drink? It is Cash bar so you'll pay for your own drink, bring cash! no ATM in Shek O, you can bring wine I will pay for the corkage! Eat? We will prepare some meals for the grill, would be helpful if RSVP so we can estimated Dress? This is just the casual BBQ party, no dress code but not undress...maybe beach wear! Check our facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=32365471775 Or email me at dj_ball@yahoo.com