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Going to try to keep the wind and water out with these things... Sock - Booty - Sock -Shoe:

Final weather update guys.. See you in Willowmore tomorrow! For the guys coming from Cape Town, we're stopping at Diesel&Cream in Barrydale around 10:00 for a brekkie and beer, pop in! You want to start carboloading early tomorrow.

The app is called "Epic Ride Weather" on the Google Play Store.

Dodgy whatsapp video also doing the rounds predicting snow for the weekend in the Willowmore/Baviaans area haha.. gonna be an adventure if it snows! This is what Saturday's prediction looks like today: Las the newspaper, looks like full winter kit all day long...

Ride forecast for 28 Aug 2021 06:00: Temperature: 0 °C to 12 °C, feels like -3 °C to 12 °C Wind: 8,6 to 15,1 km/h, with gusts up to 29,0 km/h 41% probability of precipitation Looks like it's going to be a cold one! The predicted wind direction is still changing everyday. Yesterday it showed a headwind all the way. Wouldn't trust this wind prediction until around next week Wednesday.

And now we build...

Got my 2017 Scott Spark RC Pro frame resprayed by Bogus Designs a few months back. Picked up a South Industries Wheelset second hand, GX AXS upgrade kit from Greasemonkey, and XX1 10-52 cassette and chain my sis just sneaked in from Germany at basically half price.. Now I just have to make a decision on what crankset to go with to complete the bike.

Basically took a 6 months break off the bike after Double Century in November with just the occasional casual ride since. Got back on the bike a few weeks ago to do some proper panic training to survive the Trans Baviaans in August. Started with a Zwift structured program combined with longer outside rides and actually can't believe how much power I've lost since the DC! Went from a 82kg 324W FTP in Nov to a 96kg 265W FTP currently. That's 3,95 w/kg down to 2,75 w/kg. Flippen embarrassing how I've let myself slip this far! Determined to knuckle down and at least get back to sub 90kg before Trans Baviaans.

Oefff.. up 12kg since November. Started cycling again last week after about 3 months of loafing around maybe doing one ride every two weeks. Also have to start making better food choices and cut down on beer. Got to get my act together now before Trans Baviaans in August and try and drop at least 10kg by then.

All weight I've lost this year is muscle weight due to lack of cycling! Few kgs down this year, but hardly cycling at the moment, and pants definitely not fitting any better than at the start of Jan. At least through all the late nights of working and stress that led to cycling taking the back seat I managed to successfully negotiate to buy out our company and will now be taking over from April. Interesting and scary times ahead! But I'm hoping to be a bit more flexible then and make time for cycling again.

Paarl Mountain Reserve and Rhebokskloof today

Slowly but surely getting into a rhythm again.. Prepping lunch meals the night before for the last week instead of going to coffee shops in my lunch break. Still not getting around to cycling as much as I'd like to, but since my wife is now working a block from my office, yesterday I threw my bike in the back of her car and took a lift with her and commuted back home after work. 26km in 50mins on the road bike beats 30min in traffic hands down! Got home and could still go for a run with my wife. Did the same thing this morning, but going to take the more scenic mtb route back home this afternoon. Going to try to commute back home at least 3 times a week. Feels like I discovered freedom again not having to sit in afternoon traffic!

Good luck with the surgery and speedy recovery!

Another thing you can check is your Windows sleep mode settings.. turn all that stuff off. Could happen that after 10 or 15mins of not touching your keyboard/mouse while pedaling it goes into a kind of sleep mode maybe?

A mate of mine experienced the same. In the end a simple uninstall and reinstall of Zwift sorted it out.

R255,94. Mine deducted this morning.

That's the correct procedure. We also didn't receive the mail with coupon code. I then sent a mail to team@ecobound.co.za and the responded within minutes with the coupon code email. We waited quite long before entering/transferring, but surprisingly still got in for the Aug 2021 Race event.

I still want to see someone start the 5km tar lead-in with a road bike, drop the MTB'ers on the start line, and as soon as you hit the dirt, bring up the pairing screen to come to a sudden stop, swap road bike for MTB, and carry on with the MTB for the rest of the race. Should loose around 20-30 seconds standing still, but overall might beat or come close to all out MTB.

The MTB is around 20 seconds faster than the gravelbike on one lap of the Jungle Circuit. The S-Works Epic is 1 sec faster than the Scott Spark RC Edit: I see there is a Trek Super Caliber now that beats both the S-Works and the Scott!

We had a flippen messy TT last night! Caught a team that wouldn't let us by with kit on almost like us.. ended up following wrong wheels and our bunch split.. 3 across the line and me limping home in 4th 2mins back. For me, first time back on Zwift since the 12 Nov TTT. Average power down from 3.8w/kg to 3.2w/kg and HR higher than usual.. moerse wake-up call!!

You of all people know exactly what it takes to drop the weight.. but getting motivated and actually doing it and then staying consistently diciplined is a different matter! This is where I'm at at the moment: Newly built house with a million DIY projects everyday when I get home. New job title that keeps me at the office a bit longer than usual. Cycling less and less every week. Lack of planning meals. And the new house is a bit further from my office, so can't have lunch at home anymore..no planning = fast food.. motivation is feeling so low at the moment. I'm just trying to take it week by week now.. this week I just want to finish the bigger DIY projects and finish installing the gas stove/oven so that I can at least start planning and prepping meals from next week. Then I'll have to get back into setting my alarm for 04:15 to ride before work. On top of everything I have a thesis to complete by the end of march. My boss is retiring later this year, so I might be in a position to buy the company from him. So flippen much going on at the moment that motivation for cycling and weight-loss is very difficult to find!!

Fun little section this!

Fransie

Scouts Trail up and Cool Runnings back down to town.

Copperhead, you set the bar so high so early in the year for the best trip of the year! Flip this looks like a lekker trip! If you don't mind, do you maybe have a link to your Strava account? Would love to check out your routes on there!