ChrisF

Respect for the team work .... Question to those in the know .... what type of spares are likely to be at the next water point ? Distance between water points .... ouch ... I see they did finish the day. Well done.

Productivity may impacted this week ... 😋 Laptop screen on Epic YT Cell on the tracker ... lead men ... "my" elite ladies team ... then my friends much further back. Watching the terrain as the men negotiate it .... nice to have some idea of the trails and landscape when my friends come along later .... We are lucky to have this wealth of information at our disposal ...

Damn, that sucks !! Hope you heal up and are back on two wheels soon.

the Elite ladies team that I have some insight into .... let's just say they looked at the shorter distances, and immediately picked up that mostly it is the flat sections that are shorter. They went on the talk about the elevation per km, and how it has increased for the elite ladies .... Going into this they were not impressed .... Then again, good friends and riding buddies (using this term loosely as they DROP me and my ebike full boost at will, even 100km into a ride on a steep incline ) are riding in the Masters Ladies class. They were even less impressed to hear that the "normal ladies" must do the full route while only "the chosen elite" are riding shorter ..... All round the organisers did not make friends with many of the RIDERS with this call. As many others have said .... without a real change in the broadcast and actively more time for the ladies, nothing much is going to change ..... little sponsor value in a few % broadcast time ...

You should hear the questions from the Masters Ladies ..... doing the full distance ....

OUCH ... that looked bad .... were you able to complete your ride ?

Slightly shorter routes for the elite ladies. Apparently less flat sections, but all the climbs ..

Single farm, single entry, parking full by 7.00 ... some participants cycled to the venue. Spectators had to cycle in. Previous years crossed multiple farms, peoviding much more parking and spectating opportunities Yes, less spectotors = less gees ...

Somwthing like 56 nations in the entries. Would be interesting to compare entry numbers over years ....

Marketers are not swayed by such trivial facts ...

Wonder how many cycle from home or B&B to the start ....

R250M down to R180M ...

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Nice misty morning .... welcome after a HOT week

Whats your the motivation to finish a sub-3 ? For ME ... I have a standard legal pedal assist. It is damn hard work to get in under 4 hours, at least for me it is. Sure I am more stoked about my 3:51 than @Johnny82 is about his sub-3 CTCT, a sub-6:30 DC is his goal ... for me it is about my road to recovery over the last 10 years. My next goal .... to complete a 40km road event (NOT the CTCT 42km route) in the cut off time on my gravel bike (non-ebike) ... I have yet to make it to a 30km trip on the non-ebike .... a bit of wind like this weekend and such a trip puts me right back at the physios ..... so as silly as this goal seems to most Hubbers, this is a huge goal for me. Punch line, we are each on our own journey, each with our own abilities and goals. Heck, there is a growing group of ebikers NOT entering the CTCT. They do Winelands, 99er, etc as it allows them to fully enjoy their journey .... their journey, their goals, their PB's. While saying that, the CTCT is just too big and busy to accommodate such diverse speeds, i.e. super chipped ebikes racing at 2:45 times from the mid pack through bunches of people ..... if that is your goal, then Winelands, 99er, etc has smaller numbers and space for you to go live out your dream.