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Too late to start training now? Haha, just got an entry today and had to take it! I was lazy and sick the last two months, let's see if I can get fit in three weeks time! Also, any tips and hints for this race..please direct them this way. I'm completely in the dark and have no clue what to expect.

Didn't they put a grader on the road like two days before the event last year? Pretty sure that is what they said. I wonder what's the chances of them still doing that before Saturday..

I tried that move the other day on a short ride where you put your hand on her lower back and push her up a hill..thought that might be a tactic to push for 6 hours instead of 7 hours..the next morning I realized my upper body is completely out of shape and this will not work for 100km! Neck, shoulder, back, bicep, tricep, forearm everything was eina!

Subbing Caleb Ewan for Warren Barguil. Absolute gamble! Caleb looks out of contention for scoring points for young rider but might still take a few points in tomorrow's stage. 1 flat stage vs 3 mountain stages and 1 time trial.. Warren did't show much form until now, but I'm hoping he can score a few points in the mountains at least! Then an obvious sub for Laporte that fell sick and out of the tour. Subbing with Rohan Dennis who I'm backing to take the win in the time trial.

Guys in my team picking up tummy bugs and dropping out of the race. At least no headaches for me around substitions now

Can't make a miraculous comeback in the third week of the tour if you don't fall behind in these early stages I say..

She's a runner, so her general fitness is good I think..but that doesn't really translate directly to good fitness on the bike.. She still pedals slowly and skill level not great. We did a 78km ride with 800m climbing about a month ago averaging around 17kmh without any training. Since then we basically did two or three 20km rides with 400m climbing, but she still runs around 35km-40km per week. The plan is to get her on the indoor trainer from tomorrow for an hour everyday or every second day until the Tuesday before the race just to get her used to sitting on the saddle.. even that won't be enough to get used to the saddle for a 7 hour ride, but it's better than nothing.

But it would be close to perfect if that prediction holds up!

Waayyy too soon to rely on that prediction..

Showing my hand and I'm not changing it again!! Or am I bluffing..double bluffing?

Lesson learned here.. just received my package. I'll be supporting local from now on! Ended up paying 71% of purchase price on VAT, Taxes, DHL docs etc. R2500 became R4275.

My wife decided a few weeks ago she wants to do a 100km race. I think Around the Pot 60miler is a good place to start. On the one hand I'm excited that she's starting to show interest in my hobby. This could get really fun in a year or two if she gains a bit of cycling fitness and we can do some proper events together as a team. On the other hand my target of sub 4 is now a target of sub 7 and my gat is already hating me..

Did the ramp test this morning, but Zwift crashed on saving. If I log in now my FTP has changed to 261 Watts(Higher than I expected). Intervals.icu estimated FTP at 254Watts that sounds more believable to me. I've never done the long FTP test on Zwift, think I'll give that a go in a week or two to see how the results compare.

That's pretty damn close!! If the estimate is that accurate then my FTP went doooowwwnn. Think I'll also do the ramp or long FTP test tomorrow morning to see how close it is

Naas, I like how your 10% is about equal to my 25% hehe. Do you mind dropping one of your 10% discounts on the following for me? https://www.evobikes.co.za/shimano-xtr-12-speed-upgrade-kit-with-sunrace-cassette.html

Oefff.. I was working on the 40% extra and happy to pay R3500 a pair, but didn't take into account that extra 10%. Ah well, learn something new everyday.

Revive... Ramrod, how long did shipping take and who do they use? I jumped on 2x 2019 Assos Equipe RS S9 bibs for R2500 each from them last week. Now I'm worried I was too quick on the trigger. No details on shipping and they're not replying on my email from a few days ago.

I'd gladly pay R200-R300 more for a Ciovita Corsa bib just to avoid dealing with them again..

Thanks David. Great work by the way! Say if I did 8 activities within the last few weeks with power and HR, will that estimate training load work backwards for activities of around 3-4 months back or only for future activities? Doesn't look that way?

Thanks! It seems to work. But now I notice something else. With some of my activities where I have HR monitor but no powermeter, it shows no load, and those activities also don't add to the fitness/fatigue graph. Do I need a powermeter? I know on the Elevate app only needs HR for the fitness/fatigue graph.

Hi David, This has probably already been discussed before. I have a few activities where HR monitor failed or recorded without it. These activities do not count anything towards the fitness/fatigue/form graphs. Is there any way these activities can be edited to add a more or less average heart rate to give a more realistic fitness/fatigue/form graph? For example last weekend I did a 113km ride with 1800m elevation gain in just over 4hours where I completely chopped off! But without HR monitor, so basically it looks like I had a rest day on the graph. If I could just somehow estimate a low average of 130 bpm (Was probably closer to 160-170bpm) that would at least show the graph in a more realistic way

Not mine! Also, not sure how I feel about this. Something just looks wrong when a Lefty is on anything else but a Cannondale

That one is sold.. Also had an eye on it.

Haha I think we will still be able to! That jeep track and singletrack next to the N2 is still 10km from the finish. 5km from the finish is where the single track next to the N2 stops. They will probably make us turn right onto Swellengrebel Road just after that N2 singletrack and take us through town instead of turning left on the gravel road that runs through the dodgy outskirts if I had to guess.

What model is this? Can't remember ever seeing a RC in this colours.. I like the all white on black!