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Tiny K - What do you A group guys do up Chappies/Suikerbossie?

I see alot more charity groups in the mix as well, so that can be a factor as well... I'm not too sure about the super seeding indexes. A friend of mine has a index better than mine(marginally 0....something), but I am starting 1 hour earlier? I have however done 94.7k and Die Burger, whereas his last race was last years 99er...

S for me 7:12...other times has always been in the Nedbank group. Just so many factors to consider with the Argus with so many people...

Still no seedings...

What pedals are those? I saw similar pedals at the 94.7 expo on a demo...it seems you can click in both sides like MTB pedals.

Just hoping to start 7:30am at least...

My index is 40.967, what start time would this be ±?

This morning had to be my easy ride, the legs was even sore after the weekends long ride...After 10 minutes you just feel faster and you can't stop yourself racing against yourself. While standing at a red robot I saw a MTBer going past, I have spoken to this guy previously and he told me he is doing the EPIC...So i thought me riding the road bike will catch him...alas I did not even see him again...

On our last trip to the 94.7 without bike bags/boxes, just plastic wrapped they did quite a bit of damage. I would use Mango if I had a bike box or bag...

Well I guess its a good thing I decided to go to church rather, its seems it was carnage on the road...

I see the short route will now start ahead of the longer route rider...I have to be back home before 10am, thus I will now not be able to do the race now... :-( Useless doing the 30km race...I guess I now have to do a longer ride tomorrow.

@Davetapson, I have to agree it is rather sweet ...

Good day gents, I ran out of my usual Octane Version 4 last week. I wanted to replace it, but the store had no stock. I thus went with the Game packets as I did not want to buy other brands. After I started sipping the game on my Saturday ride my stomach immediately started rumbling and it felt unsettled, but I could still nip it...My eating wasn't to great Saturday after a 3:30 hour ride either. The Sunday afternoon I had diarhea the whole day and took Reuteri and it worked out it seems. I took off yesterday to be safe, but feel a bit weak today. My question could it be the game that caused this?

This is not good news at all...many take those routes as safe(Bottelary/R304/R44). I live in Kuilsriver so that is our normal training routes. I usually only use those roads on Saturdays and have never been alone. I do however see alot of cyclists alone especially women. The only other safe road is then Polka, but it seems as soon as we say its safe something happens...I usually look directly at these guys next to the road waiting for them to do something, I think I have this built up anger and the one that will cross me is going to be very sorry.

I have a triple, but mostly stick to the middle blade up front on flats and rolling hills...at the back 11-23... If I climb steeper hills I go into my granny as I like spinning up, but the back is about 3 down from the top else it is to light... At the moment I'm the fittest I've been, but I would change to a compact if I change my bike as it fits my riding style...

Not good news, you see alot of cyclist doing that stretch alone...you would think being on a main road you are fairly safe, but these guys don't care anymore... I'm from Kuilsriver and I only do Polka into Stellenbosch via Cloetesville/Kromrhee and back via Bottelary on my own, the rest is just to dodgy... Eersteriver/Kayamandi areas are big no no areas...

Hi Hellwarp. The Zevenwacht climb confusion was actually before the bridge, the bridge signage was fine. It is the climb just before that, when you get to the top the road only goes to the left and then right towards the bridge...There was no signage at that point to indicate you are still on the route and to continue left and then right, but I assumed the assumption is the route can only go that way I guess. Like I said I'm a newbie on trails so that could be the problem...

I did the Green loop last Thursday entering from Zevenwacht side...signage was good, but I missed the trail route twice(I think this is not due to the signage, but rather me being a newbie on trails)... First was taking the left to join the green loop after the nasty climb with no signage at the top so I went down and checked the board and had to do the climb again Second was I think where the owner is cultivating the land, I went straight and saw no signage at the bottom and assumed this was the cultivation section and went right as this is the only way to go and this connected with the route... All in all a great trail with nice single-track, I just need to build on the confidence to do them faster...

Yip according to the email I received from PPA yesterday.

I'm struggling to enter online...I get diagnostics explorer issues?

so can I assume PPA "N" directly translates into Argus "N" start group?

I am now in N...what can I expect for the Argus as a start time or group? Hopefully before 7:30am?

It was my teams 1st DC for all our riders...we started the day with 8 riders which was always going to be a tough day... The 8th rider was a Swellendam local who contacted the team captain the Friday since the vibe in the town has urged him to take on the challenger again, he has completed 2 DC's before...he however didn't train and I don't think aimed to finish the route... Our problems started in the starting blocks when our first rider had a flat, 1km later a 2nd flat...you then know its going to be a long day in the saddle... After Tradouw pass out 1st weak link fell off, he was suppose to be a work horse for the 1st 100km and then he could of retired...it was not to be Our supposed strongest rider was in poor form on the day and struggled with knee problems at 63km...at this stage we were 6 riding together with the Swellendam local attacking the route and we never saw him again...We started to get worried since we were only 6 left and tried phoning him with no luck, but continued nursing our injured rider...After Ashton our rider became worse and we phoned the local again and he answered which was good news, but it turned out he phoned his wife to pick him up along the route...now we were only 6 on the road with 1 seriously injured rider, but we continued... After the traffic circle in Robertson turning left into the wind he pulled a calf and nursed it to get back on the bike and continued until 180km when medics told him both his ITB's are messed and he had to withdraw...All this nursing and stopping caused us to cut it fine on cut-off and we decided to call it quits after 185km on the bike for over 9:30hrs... All in all still a very fun day and I would definately do it next year with a full team of 12...It seems the bicycling 12week program worked well for me, as I had no cramps and pulled the team 80% of the way...

My team is starting 5:33...just aiming to finish within the cut-off. We have 3 riders that dissapointed us in the last week and another that fell ill...so we will be a novice team with 8 riders...it's going to be a long day!

Thanks guys, I have emailed Gautrain. I will also try 94.7 office...