The Ouzo

gemmerball's tracker has not updated since 6:12. Hopefully just a slow update.

@gemmerbal's position has not updated for 2 hours. Shows 1km from WP3. Hopefully just a glitch with the tracking.

not to get into a pi$$ing contest, but I would also imagine that 16km/h figure doesnt take into account a head wind. But good point on trying to hold a line, although even just to the side of the rider ahead offers a drafting advantage,

that is an astonishing pace to keep for so long.

and there is the phycological advantage of riding with others that also helps to keep the pace up. Respect to her.

@gemmerbal is about 21km from WP3

100% Just thought it might be an explanation for her big lead. I dont have the balls to line up for this event, let alone have the legs to draft anyone for so long, so huge praise to her.

cant see from the tracking, could she perhaps be drafting some of the men ?

komoot, strava and garmin connect can all create routes based on the most popular used routes. I'm not aware if any of them are able to give your turn by turn navigation from their phone apps, but they do allow for GPX export to load the route onto your cycling computer/device (provided you own one that will do turn by turn navigation)

As a photographer that has dealt with mass quantity pics and quick turn around time, you need to keep any edits to a absolute minimum. This means basic straightening of the image, possibly some slight exposure corrections and thats about it. There is no time for anything else, shoot jpg and get the stuff out. As for composition etc., someone raised a good point earlier, not very easy when you're shooting 1000s of riders coming past, but I'll add another dimension to this and that is experience. In order to keep internal costs down they most likely use students or inexperienced photographers for these events.

Was wondering how long it would take them, just received an email, entries for 2024 have now opened with early bird pricing.

you okes down there fire cannons every day, now you're worried about an itsy bitsy little bullet.

a couple of well positioned snipers is what is needed.

yep, the same guys I tried to stick with right in the beginning. They left me for dead. But him, I and another Club 100 rider rode together until Kyalami, I then met up with him again on the return drag on the M1, but didnt have the legs to stick with them.

Thanks for being honest. And if I'm totally honest, if I had a Varia I'd be using that site too. For nothing other than my own personal bemusement of data.

Hey I rode with him at 947. Sort of overheard him in the start pen telling his mates he will take it very easy for 947 as the big ride is coming up. Didnt quite hear what ride it was. Seems like a decent bloke, strong too. Good luck to him.

All great in theory, but we know in practice none of this can or will happen. Firstly chances are the driver wont even stop, so unless you have a newer varia with camera then you have no way of identifying the driver. then the next hurdle is find someone in authority who is willing to use that info and do something about it.

This forum software doesnt have enough storage space for everything I've done. But long story short, 15 years in the IT field, 12 years of doing other things, currently selling cars and want to get back into the IT field. But Age, Race and no degree means my CV doesnt get past initial screening phase.

and what do you do with this information ? serious question, not trying to be funny or anything. I was thinking about it this morning on my ride. So now you have this info, how do you use it ?

I used to firmly believe this. To a large extent I still believe this, but it would seem many companies and recruiters do not. As someone that has been looking at job listings almost daily for a very long time, even many mundane jobs are listed with having xyz degree as minimum requirement. Even if you have the experience to do the job, your CV never gets past the initial screening process because no degree. so if you have the will power to tackle a degree now, then do it.

I'm actually very jealous of him riding there. The closest I've done to cycling in greece was as a youngster with my cousins cruising around the village on bicycles close to where these pics are taken.

I'm actually very jealous of him riding there. The closest I've done to cycling in greece was as a youngster with my cousins cruising around the village on bicycles close to where these pics are taken.

I very much doubt your "almost no logistics" statement above.

yah, no. Not doing 200k in 1 ride. It will rule out the rest of the days because I'd need to be resting.

Its just a gun shaped massage tool. the one i bought was a cheap one and I'm not convinced it work as well as it should. But I still use it now and then. And yes, I think the intention is that you can use it on yourelf.