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To add to the spruit.
Two friends new being Wayne(Kiwi) from Rapide got held up at gun and knife point this morning closer to Emmarentia
Dam this morning.
So it seems like spruit is going through the less popular phase that it did a few years ago.
Unless the authorities can blitz the place again.
Just so sad.
Hi Cotic, do you have more details on the location?
Hey Zub, what's with the stealth mode? You should be over 7000 already, time to update.
What final mileage you aiming for Cat-i?
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Well done Cat-i. This means you did an avg of about 25,7 km / day (weekends included). If you can bump your average to just over 37 you could still hit the 10k mark for the year.
Thanks Bats ... but no thanks on the 10k. I built a little model om a spreadsheet, and that will have to wait for someone else.
My model, however, does predict that there is a slight possibility of getting to your record of last year, but only if the afternoon-thunderstorms don't include too many hailstorms and shortcuts in the afternoons.
This last month was hard work and I'm ready for a holiday!
Well Done Cat! You are a machine!!
I especially like your 70Km day on Monday. Insane.
I can't claim any credit for that ride. My husband woke me up at 4:40, already in his cycling kit and ready to go to the office via Emmarentia botanical gardens. Apparently I agreed to it after 2 glasses of wine Friday night when we celebrated the end of 'sober October' ...
Between Randburg and the Spruit is a ridge, and between the Spruit and Sandton is another ridge, so from home to the office I have to get up (and down) 2 ridges - same back. Riding in the Spruit itself is fairly flat, except if you're riding loops around Delta park. This morning's commute was 35 km; ascent was 548. Home this afternoon will be around 30 km and around 400m ascent.
Zub set up a vertical challenge a while ago, but Strava revoked the access to some of the info, so that page hasn't updated in months.
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Was in Jhb about 2 weeks ago (9 Oct), sitting gridlocked at a circle in Benmore in the company pool car at around 5pm, when this female MTB’er passed through the circle (from Short onto Benmore) right infront of me … thought to myself – could that be Cat-I ….
.. not that many female commuters taking on the traffic at that hour in Sandton ?
Could have been. It was a Wednesday, so Mr Cat-I would have been with me, tall guy usually about a bike length behind me and his front light usually blinking. Both of us were on 26ers. Did i at least wave?
If you went down Benmore towards Outspan, you would have seen a white Jacaranda between 2 purple ones at that T-junction.
I miss my morning commutes. On the halfway mark I would climb this nasty little climb away from the Isar river. The last couple of meters would kick up to 14% but when you are over the climb, you would be rewarded with the sunrise views. Many a picture I posted here was from that spot.
Was a glorious morning in Randburg/Sandton. The first few drops of summer rain finally fell late last night. The air was clean, much cooler than the heatwave of the last few days, Jacarandas in full bloom.
Kief thanks ... never knew I was that close ... but I see you are still hammering away!
Good news though is that my cellphone battery has been replaced, so can now log rides properly again
Haha seems like I know more about your weekly mileage, total distance and commuting habits than you do 
You are so consistent one can see where your cellphone didn't record (or where you had to take a bus)
The UweKoetter challenge finishes end of November. I am still first loser with no chance to catch number 3, but resolved in the beginning to keep going as long as I'm top 5, so I have to at least try.
Been off the bike the last two days, school run. The wife broke her coccyx and can't drive... but tomorrow I'm back on the bike.
Ouch! Probably not a lot doctors can do about that?
Some rain predicted for tomorrows ride home.
Also possibly for next week 
The sunny hail-free mud-free days are over for this year and spring has finally sprung - and the sunlight returned! By the time we got to Delta Park this morning we already made shadows. Must take a camera along one day - it's magnificent out there at the moment.
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Whooa! Well Done CAT!!
Thx 
Was a glorious morning for commuting in Gauteng.
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Geez! Cat-i, last two days have been 70km+ days. How the heck are you managing that?
I'm exhausted in the afternoons doing my puny 36km commuting days.
Much Respect!
Our own little 'Camino de Commute' this week - trying to get to 300 and 5000 ascent in the week.
You were a big part of the inspiration for that ... Mr Cat-i (you've met him last year when Nancy delivered the Sani2C cookies) has been trying to catch you for months but you never allowed the gap to shrink.
How I manage? Almost not! Lots of coffee at the office and early nights every night. Was very hard to get up this morning. Tomorrow hopefully will be a bit easier knowing that it's Friday.
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I rode in with my short sleeve shirt, it was crisp and cool but enjoyable.
You're a lot tougher than I! It was hard getting up for today's commute - it was only Samson blowing in my neck that made me get up this morning.
After a few weeks of summer, this morning was back to full winter-gear again.
History books re-written today - we have a female in 1st place on the 2019 Commuter Challenge!!!!
Well done Cat-i !!!!
Thx Eddy Still a long way to go and our hail season will be starting in a month or so. But I'll try to hold onto that for as long as I can
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I go offline for 2 days and come back to a whole thread of news. Very pleased that they didn't find any tumours in your brain. Thinking of you Cois, wishing you some good news this week.
My brother survived Colon cancer. His wife is in a wheelchair; his son was in primary schoo at the time. I was up here in Gauteng and my sister also 150 km away. So he drove himself to chemo in the mornings and went back to the office for a full day's work after he sick leave and leave was depleted. The biggest concern was - what about his wife and child? I don't know if that added more stress or if that was what made him endure everything and helped him fight it.
I hope that in ten years' time you can tell someone that you survived it and maybe motivate someone else to keep on fighting.
Love and light.
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Held up at gunpoint on the Spruit this morning - 7/11/2019
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Geeez, on a Saturday morning! It's a busy route ...