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My fave SP tune ... So many parties to this track! (Also my second favourite band to attempt to directly translate their band name to Afrikaans.. "Die plat gemoerde pampoene!")

Hairy if you like this artist, you have to listen to this tune! (Works best when you beat the SO home, freshly showered with some winning smells on, dinner ready and waiting, wine chilled, candles lit, press play as she puts the key in the door!)

Liesbeek Parkway one is mostly a thornpatch. All useful when you're on a mountainbike with tubeless, but not so lekka on a commuter or road bike with skinny wheels that keep puncturing! The second issue is that it tends to have a constant stream of runners on it, which doesn't work so cool with trying to add an element of training to your commute. For many this is the primary reason they commute in the first place!

What do you guys that are constantly griping about the same thing want? Do you really believe Disco will pony up, come on here and apologise to you if you're persistent enough to go on and on and on and on and on.... about the heart rate zones and points allocated to these? Or are you wanting Myles to do that on Disco's behalf???? The purpose of this thread was to be helpful about Disco's offerings. You have stated your point, it's been addressed multiple times and yet you still keep harping on about the same thing over and over. The system is not perfect, not by a long shot, but it's a benefit that costs no extra money down to join, from the premiums already in place and the rewards mean you get something back! Subscribe or don't subscribe. Those are the choices. And yes, the crew that took up the watch offering should feel bleak that the parameters have changed, but if the watch payment is that important to you to avoid, than do the necessary training, which is not impossible to accomplish!

Report backs from all the hubbers who ran today please! MASSIVE CONGRATS from all us couch surfing wannabe runners today!!!!

I ALWAYS use the N1 and dodge the cycle lane for that piece. Even outside of peak hour it's a safer gamble than trying to suss the scene along the railway stretch heading under the N1. Far too many homeless crew living in the bushes along that section of the cycle lane now too, so it's harder to work out the intentions of the crew milling about when you cycle through there now! (Shot for the info on Argentinian lady! Whenever I hear stories about this stretch, she's the first person I think of and then every once in a while when I stay out at my mates who lives in TV and I commute the cycle lanes I see her and assume she's clearly been doing OK!)

There's an Argentinian girl who cycle commutes from town to TV every morning and back to town in the afternoon along the cycle lane on her own. I met her at a critical mass ride once. When I used to cycle from TV to town for work I would regularly see her coming by morning and night. Is she still doing this and along this route daily? She could be a serious target with her almost daily routine!

Would you be chilled 248 pages into a thread you promote to assist people on a subject you indirectly represent, so that you make it easier for the community to get their ideas and focus around on a subject you yourself have agreed has been changed too far past the benchmark, but well within the rules of the rewards program, to somehow provide some service to anyone who posts here, only to come up against a constant barrage of noise trying to nitpick every possible angle from a select crew of posters? I'm surprised by the level of patience Myles has shown thusfar!

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

Wow! Are we really still stuck at the points increasing? If you make your weekly totals they will continue to increase and cap at 1200 points. This was never a mystery. The program is based on IMPROVING YOUR FITNESS RELATIVE TO YOURSELF so that you cost less money by decreasing your risk against yourself for Disco over the long term. If some overweight couch potato has just started the program and taken the watch deal he has 24 months of ever increasing points coming for him! He may get the points easy now, but he'll have to stay committed to improving his fitness to get Disco to pay the subsidy for the watch over the full term! If you're already fit, chances are you will likely understand the requirement better and manage your training, how to record and submit it better, so that you make it through the 2 year period without having to pay much if anything at all! Loads of short sighted venting going on here!

If you took the watch and don't want to pay, segment your training. Yes, it's a schlep, but if you are that determined not to pay than just get on with it. Do your 2 plus hour ride, but somewhere in that session give it a little extra for 30 minutes and segment the training by stopping and resetting the training session before and after you do that interval. Voila, 300 points for that piece instead of 100 points for the total workout. You still get all the data for your other logging activities and Disco give you their points.

BH, I don't think anyone is arguing the non merits of the new heart rate zones. The points do not make much sense, but based on the fact that it's a benefit anyone could willingly subscribe to, they have set some limits that are challenging rather than practically non existant. The crew here are suggesting there are ways to adapt your training so that you can achieve the somewhat weird requirements to keep your training segmented to get these training targets, but if anyone is serious about their training they will have more than enough opportunity to fit in at least 3 hardish 30 min efforts somewhere in the week along with 3 other coffee\smoothie stops to make up the max of 1200 weekly points. You have your own opinion but no matter how much evidence is placed before you, you seem determined not to shift the level of disdain you publically want to shower on the Active Rewards system. What is your motivation for this btw?

Nathrix, how long have you been doing exercise dude? Surely you must know that the only way to improve your fitness levels are to increase the training load, through either intensity or duration, hopefully both. It's granular thinking but the only option for a fitness benefit program aimed at the masses. If you are regularly making your weekly targets and enjoying the benefits on a weekly basis, of course the targets will increase so that you have to beat yourself at getting fitter. If someone else on the program, irrespective of what their current fitness levels are, do not make their weekly goals, they do not get any of the active rewards and the program cannot possibly then aim to make their target more difficult. It's incentive is to get the mass of Vitality members to IMPROVE their fitness as this is what Discovery is aiming for. The stats show something like a 7% improvement in fitness across the board for all their members has a massive implication on the rate of risk benefit exposure for Disco! That is where their golden egg lies. We as regular cycling members get to enjoy some benefits from doing something we would ALREADY be doing, i.e. aiming to get fitter for whatever cycling pursuits\goals we have and Disco have come up with a way to link this back to their offering that ties into their medical aid scheme and shares a little bit of the savings!

Most of the chaps here moaning keep surprising me at the inability to understand the publically communicated requirements of the benefits Disco put out. They set their activity points on specific limits and just like BMI makes no sense for everyone, heart rate zones wont make sense for everyone but on the balance of available data from the mass of subscribers it is their only option. I say this as someone who has a realitively low HR for my age and even though I'm in a base training phase the targets are not out of reach for now. The bigger question is however, are you putting in more training effort in order to make sure you reach your goals? Have you even 1 time gone to the gym purely because you wanted to make sure you met your goal and didn't drop the team you have in active rewards? If so, the benefit is doing what they were hoping for!

Dude, they are putting in WAY more effort than a 30 minute workout at 80% HR...

Impressive stuff chaps! Never thought I would be much of a runner after trashing my knee properly 24 years ago! But after a very slow and sustained training effort over the past 2 years, I'll be doing my first Marathon this year in September, having done a few half marathons without too much issue in the past 9 months. If the build up continues it will be OMTOM Ultra next year and perhaps Comrades thereafter! I'll be cheering on this year!! Best of luck to you all!

Anyone brave enough to admit not making their weekly goal yet?

What's your verdict then?

I'm a big Old Man Canyon fan but have never posted any of their music here I think. Their track called Wiser is quite popular and has featured as a backing track on a mountain bike short film somewhere. This song however makes me want to ride my bike on the mountain and then get in my car and road trip to hunt waves! Such an epic feel good tune!

Familiar with Tabata sprints and hill climbing intervals from more structured training days.... Indeed they are the only way to ramp up the adaptive response and increase fitness effectively using real world issues like job and time obstacles! Just a wake up call when you see what 6 months of commuting mostly with the odd training run thrown in does to your true fitness scores!

Myles dude, you need a medal, a SERIOUS bonus from Disco in some way and plenty characters on here to buy you multiple bells!!!! I've just read through this whole thread and the amount of repetitive bitching is simply astonishing! Tend to run lower than normal heart rate levels for my age myself, so I'll be struggling with pushing intensity when the weekly goal gets closer to the limits, but what I can say is that in all the years I've been a Disco member this is the first year they buy me 2 smoothies every week over and above the other rewards!

Did my first FTP test this past weekend! Clearly need to spend more time training intensity than simply racking up mileage! Met eishhhh!

Jorge has about as much personality as a toilet brush! And that's his public persona!!!! Can he ride a bike? Hell yes! Is anyone disputing that! Fek no! Does he do anything to actually engage with fans and followers of motoGP??? Why is he or any of his supporters surprised that he gets booed when he comes across as this much of a tonsil! Most people will respect his riding ability but not his character...

Lekka pics Bonus! How weird does it feel cycling on the other side of the road? Especially on that second pic coming round a blind corner... Has instinct caught up with where you are or is it still a little daunting looking over the other shoulder and having to do the opposite side of all your safety checks whilst on the bike?

He was the only guy in the car and from the size of his waist I figured he ate his partner for breakfast already... Wait, it could be round two of breakfast then. As you were....