Thirteenth Training
Date: 15th June 2018, Friday
Time: 11:00 - 15:30
Route: Yat Tung - Tung Chung -Yat Tung
Distance: 30 km
After a few sessions of training, we started to get use to climbing uphill and downhill. Today’s training comes with another vital challenge for our team.
We had the usual training on climbing slopes in the morning, it was physically demanding.
Then, we start the first training to ride on the highways. It is mentally demanding since we need to stay extremely focused on the traffic condition and communicate with our teammates. We used whistles and different gestures for communication during cycling. For instance, we whistled 3 times when there are cars passed by. However, we are still green and lack of experiences in cycling on the highways since none of us have the driving experiences. We have doubts when the unknown situation appeared. The team head became so stressful to lead the whole team and make the decisions, like using which lanes to ride and estimating the times needed for the whole team to pass though the traffic lights. It takes times to build rapport for better communication.
