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The Ouzo

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  1. Those first 2 lines of the caption read like someone needing to add words to their essay to reach the minimum word count. WTF???
  2. Yeah I don’t see it as being to good for the body
  3. thanks. So you could, if you wanted to, still do the ride at a more sedate pace. But risk dehydration and/or bonking.
  4. and in terms of training ? any restrictions ? (other than the fact that you've got depleted nutrition levels and therefore cant train 100%)
  5. excuse my ignorance on the matter, what are the restrictions on you for Ramadan ? I know of the fasting, but does it not allow exception for sport or illness ? Or is this level of sport considered more recreation and therefore no exception.
  6. Entire thread dominated by pricing and pricing comparisons. Jewbecca summarized everything at the top of the first page. But I'll add to the debate. Last year we launched our new hot hatch, close to 1bar. people had the same reactions, to expensive, I can get XYZ for cheaper wadda wadda wadda. We are still selling them, the price has creeped up to over a bar and they are still selling. And when we launch the replacement for this in a few years we'll get the same reactions. Back to 2 wheels and the recently launched version of our superbike is close to R600k, its been out a month, all 3 units that were allocated to us have been sold. The one is not even going to be assembled, the guy is just buying it as a collectors item. Brands will sell what their product at a price they have researched that their target market will buy them at. There will always be the initial shock reaction to the price, but once that desirability hits, the price is justified in their eyes and the product bought.
  7. Dont recall, I know when I tried to enter yesterday from the CTCT website it took me to the 2024 entries and it stated R750, I had to follow the link from the email to get to the 2025 entries.
  8. Me too. Only because a) I have some spare change right now and b) next year is no. 21 for me, so getting my entry in early and not having to stress about it again is a relief.
  9. So what I landed up doing. Headed back to V&A where we parked, removed timing board and front facing number, than headed up and took main road through to Camps Bay. Sat under a tree there and waited for him. From there we rode back together. He was unfit and sick leading up to the race, I think the moral support of me riding with him the last little bit really helped. Waiting for more pics to come through on action photo, but I think we got some great ones crossing the line together. oh, I skipped the second coke and got a funny look from the medal lady when I declined a second medal.
  10. with my shirt it was a bit tricky to get everything lined up the way I wanted, but that is a function of the shirt not the pins. they seemed to work well, held the number in place and has not left any permanent marks on the shirt.
  11. Can you do the 2 groups as well please
  12. Talk of 5-10 minutes burst and plenty freewheeling in this thread. This is my HR data for the race, plus setting a new max HR of 10bpm higher than what it was.
  13. Anyway, race report. started at the front of 2A, headed out onto the highway without issue, 2 youngsters out front setting the pace, I tried to stick with them, but between trying to figure out why my gps was not working and these guys being strong and my legs feeling sore for some reason, I was dropped. managed to stay with the main group of 2A through to Edinburg, I cruised up there but seemed to crest alone, hit the blue route and found a bunch of about 6 guys, we rode through from there to fishhoek where the bunch swelled. Relatively well behaved bunch, stuck together until Smits. Cresting Smit’s I found a few guys from the group and we cruised through to the little climb before ocean view , after the decent, regrouped again and sucked wheel into the wind. some guys went right of the beacons and made things sketchy. Chappies hurt, then the decent had me wide awake after nearly getting flung off by the wind Suikers I just stuck to slow and steady, legs felt like they were going to cramp, after Suikers found a small group and sucked wheel with everything I had, legs screaming at me the last few km. Set a PB of 3:32, 4 minutes quicker than last year . i then sat for 15minutes before heading back to the car, cut off my chip and front number thingy, then headed along the back roads to camps bay, waited for my mate doing his 21st, we road back to the finish together from there
  14. Flippen irritates me. I rode yesterday. It was perfect, did not touch a thing, today it decides to turn off gps. I think it was the update that forced its installation, when I turned it on this morning it notified me that an update had installed. and once a ride is started there appears to be no way of turning gps on again. After the finish I went through the menus again and it said gps. Turned it back on before riding to camps bay and back to the finish.
  15. So my Garmin decided to turn of the gps. No tracking for the entire ride, I had speed, time, HR and cadence. not a big issue in the ride (although no avg speed meant I was doing lots of math in my head), but now uploading to Garmin and Strava has minimal data. does anyone know how to add distance to a Strava ride that only has time?
  16. Short spin from Muizenberg to Simons Town. check this vintage Argus jersey
  17. Was having breakkies earlier after our ride, sitting at Hans and Lloyd when an elderly gent walks past coffee in hand. I greeted and we started chatting. He is one of the original 7, no longer ride the race because he has a heart issue, but still rides 3 times a week. was lekker chatting to him, it would be really cool to sit with him around a braai and listen to all the stories he has to tell.
  18. And when there is wind passing over tugging the number.
  19. I was just out of camera to the left of this pic. They turned around after taking the pic just as I got there.
  20. Picked up 2 sets of those too. Been looking for something like that for a while now, I loathe sticking safety pins through expensive cycling tops.
  21. I was hoping for some good discounts on bibs from my 2 favorites , Vye or Ciovita. Vye has discontinued the mirage bib (new one coming out) so no stock, Ciovita looked like inflated pricing to me so gave them a skip too. did pick up some fresh Versus socks for myself and the wife, and some CTCT souvenirs for the family. oh and a Squirt refill.
  22. Heading through Worcester yesterday. phone stuck out of sunroof
  23. Us too. Just cruised through Hanover
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