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Thats dangerous. Fortunately my wife said so beforehand. I just added a little fuel to the fire. Got asked this morning to bring the roman bench down from the roof and set it up in the bedroom. Now we getting serious !

I need to add something perhaps I am wrong if so someone let me know. I'm a little stickler for rules. The reason for this is that as a novice to this sport I have been burnt a few times over the years because I was ignorant of a few rules. Now when you organize a race of this sort you clearly, or you should, state all the requirements for race including essential and compulsory kit. So at the olympic transition gate there's this kid who pitches and he has a black swim cap. The referee at the gate would not let the kid in and simply said no bright cap no enter. So yes I agree with this from a safety point of view BUT you need to make this clear. I had looked the day before and could find no such requirements had been published. So if you dont publish the rules and requirements you cannot on the day turn wannabees away. You as the organizer need to make it abundantly clear what is required. We did actually pay R400 to participate ! Anyway I was really peeved off and in the end gave the kid a spare orange speedo swim cap so he could partake.

Wow thats brilliant lad. Keep it up.

Wish I had a budget of R4k. My Garmin 305 is so BIG I could very well use it as a weapon of mass destruction. I will have to wait for December to see what my bonus looks like and just how much of that will go on my kids varsity fees. Anyway must just say I have been most impressed with my garmin 305 so if I were you I would be looking in that direction except for something smaller.

So my wife is not into sports at all. She has tolerated my fascination with Triathlon with disdain affection mostly. So I win a R500 voucher from Troisport at the recent Midlands Ultra and an evil idea comes to mind. I head to Troi and ask for a pair of running shoes in size 5, NO the size 5 is not for me. I end up with a flashy pair of zoot's that even I am jealous of. I have to contend with asics. Anyway the wife is most impressed with her Zoot's because at the Ultra she said all the vinnige chicks were wearing these flashy shoes. And guess what ? everyday this last week she has been putting these shoes on early morning and doing a 3k run/walk thing around our block. Most impressive what ?

cleaning them and anti fog I am assuming is two different things. yesterday at the Joburg City Tri my goggles fogged up in the middle of the race completely. i had to tread water for a minute while i took them off dipped them in the water and then put em back on again. someone said to me if you wash them with baby shampoo the lenses dont fog. clearly this does NOT work. cleans well enough though.

race was good yesterday. must say MDW I prefer non-wetsuit. I get really claustrophobic in my wetsuit especially when I wear tri-suit under as well. feels like a bear is about to throttle me. no matter how many times i wear the damn thing its always the same. this true especially for sprints and olympic. for ultra + i dont wear tri suit so this becomes less of an issue for me.

How's doing the race tomorrow at Germies 28 Oct 2012 ? Any predictions as to whether or not it will be wetsuit legal ? Any ideas as to water quality considering recent rains etc ?

I'm doing Joburg Tri tomorrow at Germies that should prove interesting especially as we just had rain recently ...

Yip ! with 3 arms and 5 legs just joking. the water is good.

I always find it funny how SOME of the "larger" riders I have met who ride expensive bikes do so because one they have the money and two they want to get the latest, greatest and importantly the "lightest" bike. So they are prepared to shed ooodles of cash to get the lightest bike around but could easily do with a 10k bike until they lost a few (ok more than just a few ) kilo's around their mid rifs.

So my xmas leave gets cancelled this year because I'm the newby on the block and the rest of the gang got in before me. So turns out the only weekend I can get in my sun city time is over the same weekend as 94.7 . So no xmas leave, no 94.7. Best I enjoy sin city then

Unless you going for podium position whats the rush ? garf does t1 in 2m I do it in 4m. in my 4m i get to survey the scenery, watch the chaos from the outside, develop a smile, take in the hot babes watching, give my wife a kiss, stroll into t1 and casually do my stuff.

And you managed to swim faster than me ( 1 minute ) and I had a whole bunch of swimming training. Must say though I cruised the swim when I got out the water I could easily have done another 2k's even had time to have a quick chat to the wife and get a good luck kiss. Lets not mention the frikken calf cramp in the middle of the swim !!!???

http://www.midlandsultra.com/images/results/Midlands%20Ultra%20Results%202012%20-%20Race%202.pdf

I did a 6h41 would have liked it to be closer to 6h00 maybe next time. Managed to get a bad calf cramp on the swim leg. Good thing I can swim and did not panic. I was not as quick as I would have liked as a result but managed to finish ok. The weather was perfect for racing. Organization was good I did not see any drafting of any sort and refs seemed busy with trivial matters. Not sure how the timing works but the results say I was marginally slower than you on the swim but I am damn sure I saw come past me at the start of the cycle leg.

Garf you silly boy. You won a prize but you were not there so they gave the prize to me instead Seriously you won a walk man of some sort must have been quite fancy because everyone wanted it. A few minutes later I won a pair of sunglasses and a R500 voucher for Troisport

Right I'm off for the day see you good folks bright and early on Sunday morn. Travel safe.

I suppose now that everyone knows my number i'm gonna actually be obliged to perform somewhat on Sunday and show the kids how the old ballies do it

I'm gonna get myself one of those gay helmets and a funny suit so when the refs check me out they cant actually see me. I'm gonna be like the German U 212 submarine almost undetectable. Designed to attack and sink other athletes and referees. Not even the Garf claw will see me coming. Gonna call myself U583

Hey wat maak julle 583 is my number !! bliksems. Listen I only get disqualified before the race has even started. I dont cheat during the race well ok maybe a bit of drafting ... every second or so but only if you dont mind

Got to agree here it would be brilliant. The cradles the perfect spot. BUT at 40k's the inner loop is gonna mean 4.5 laps. The run can be a 20 out and back. Tough country though wont be that easy. BUT at least it will be on our back door and easy to get road closure for the day. The farmers not gonna be too happy though. They wont be able to visit tannie sannie after church.

Must say I have been very relaxed about the event for quite sometime now. It was only this morning when I woke up and was thinking about the event that felt the first of those all too familiar butterflies

Ja nee. I only have 1 helmet. I use it for MTB, road and triathlon. I wear it because I'm told I have to

Did my usual tuesday morning session through Randburg and Sandton. Behold 2 roadies and a MTB riding 3 abreast down oxford road taking up an entire lane and yes they did cruise through the red robots. Its the only way they managed to keep with me and YES I did stop at the robots. Oxford is very busy that time of the morning lots of taxi's and buses so its an accident just waiting to happen. What really pisses me off is afterwards when I did my 10k run up Beyers. All the taxi's and cars driving in the emergency lane FORCING me to run on the gravel and bush next to the road. NOT a tjop sorry I meant cop in sight. I really dont want to say this but I am gonna say it anyway : why is it that 99.9% of these drivers are all of a particular skin color ? and believe me I see every single one of them real closeup ! ok lash me I said it