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11 minutes ago, 'Dale said:You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. —Maya Angelou
Week 5 since the hit & run incident in Green Point, Peoples.
My right leg is losing its musculature due to lack of activation and mobility. My ankle and calf is still under reconstruction and finding its way to full recovery with daily wound management and physiotherapy 3 x daily. My left leg is working twice as hard and compensating for its missing twin.
I will walk again and my right leg is getting ready to kiss the earth in a few weeks’ time. Looking forward to the horizon, I have ordered a new road bike and replaced all my accessories which felt like an administrative task. My inner work now is to work through any splinters of post traumatic stress when I visit the scene of the incident next week.
Grateful for so many things: The loving and protective bubble around me at home, a durable and resilient body, the privilege of having a superb medical team attending to me and to all those caring messages that pulls me back towards Life.
Sterkte, Dale! Een van die dae sien ons weer jou mooi foto's wanneer jy buite ry.
Shaun was dared to finish the last bit without a shirt to raise some extra funds for PAWS, to which he complied.
What an incredible human being!
LEGEND!!
42 minutes ago, Mamil said:Thread hijack ...
What we have to understand about @Jewbaccais that he's a proper athlete who doesn't take himself too seriously unlike this mamil who has minimal ability and plans training, nutrition, race strategy meticulously to mitigate this dearth of talent.
So he arrives at the water point having ridden the last 30km with empty bidons, announces that he doesn't have anyone to feed him, eats half a banana and the soggy end of a leftover boerie roll, and then takes a short nap before finishing ahead of me and my carefully mixed malto and fructose drink, my imported energy bars and my perfectly timed taper.
It would not be a good marriage.
To wit, I'm carefully curating my bike setup for munga at the end of the year, dynamo lights, losing the Camelbak in favour of saddle mounted bottle cages, painstaking selection of handlebar bag, fussing over whether aero bars will work for me. I'm already training, riding trial events .... Etc etc
@Jewbaccawill get his BMX out the back of the garage, brush the cobwebs off, do a loop of the green belt in preparation, lube his chain and be asleep at the third race village when I get there.
You had me in stitches, almost choking on my juice🤣🤣🤣
2 hours ago, Jewbacca said:It's almost as if some people on here forget that Nino is almost impossible to pair with, nevermind someone with the same/similar sponsors and timetable.
The guy is relentlessly brilliant and has topped the MTB world for a really really long time.
Add to that there is always one partner stronger than the other. It's nobody's fault, it is purely impossible for 2 people to perform equally over 8 days. It is what makes this format so intriguing.
The top end of the field are racing within the tightest margins, I mean mere minutes over hundreds of Km.
It is a phenomenal thing to watch and enjoy.
I know I'm certainly a million light years away from criticising or suggesting I know better than the teams and their riders.
Jewie, on the topic of partners being equal and all...who's going to team up with you on an BMX? Maybe @Mamil??🤔😉
Check out Joburg2blouberg day 6 on Relive! https://www.relive.cc/view/vKv2n29xXov
Nice big day in the bag, biggest one so far, the 5.1 km of tar road was most definitely just the main road through Victoria West... Definitively our best performer from Potch so far (Sorry @~Nico , just could not resist, Well done @Shaun Leach )
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Hi, fellow hubbers!
This guy is my go to LBS. He is doing this for the charity that looks after our four legged friends who doesn't have humans in their lifes. Please support🙏🏻 . It is really a worthy cause.
I'll post all the links below.
2 hours ago, The Ouzo said:No idea. @Frosty might know.
im not even racing it next week, but wanted to do a long ride today so joined the guys.
Ok, thanks! Bit soon after the Argus. My wallet still hyperventilating, but if it is a seeding event we might bite the bullet. Hopefully entries still allowed.
1 hour ago, The Ouzo said:Emperors route recon
Do you maybe know if it's a seeding event fot CTCT 2025? Looks,like not a lot of seeding races around Gauteng and Northwest😣
2 hours ago, Robbie Stewart said:I agree with @The Ouzo
I come to Le Hub to escape stupidity. I prefer not to have to be exposed to it here also.
Robbie, uhm, wie het nou weer in die straat voor sy huis met sy fiets geval...😉😉
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The usual way too often used "working offshore on an oil rig and want to surprise his cousin" nonsense. How dumb/brave is this guy?
Also how dumb/brave does he think other people are. Amazeballs🙄
On 3/11/2024 at 7:52 PM, ChrisF said:Herewith a photo-story of my CTCT weekend -
So, as most of you gathered, the Potch train went to Cape Town in almost full force. If I must write a "race report" for the whole long weekend, it would be a week's worth of reading.
We tried to squeeze a year's catching up and sightseeing into 3 days. A BIG thank you to @ChrisF for his efforts to make our stay interesting and fun.
My race was very slow and kinda crap. But I expected it after last year's fall from the ladder at work, and still doing the rehab thing.
So I went out with the mindset of taking the day as it comes, surviving it, and take home what needs to be done to get back to my previous level. I'll be following @Phillippe Coetzeeand @DieselnDust's conversation for some pointers.
I did enjoy the banter and crowds as always. Being so slow I had more time to take it in.
We are already busy with next year's accomodation and sightseeing plans.
Like Terminator says: I'll be back!
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1 hour ago, NotSoBigBen said:I would say when you wake up Sunday morning, look out the window .... anything other than that is a merely a calculated guess doesn't matter who it comes from 🤪
I can remember last year a fellow hubber, can't remember who😱, said we'll know the day's weather at km 106...
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1 hour ago, The Ouzo said:Us too. Just cruised through Hanover
Safe travels💪
So...we're on the road again!🤪 The long awaited "Argus trip" is underway.
ChrisF's beloved Potch train is heading his way. Can't wait to see our friends again😘
Sterkte, Dale. Hoekom is dit altyd die goeie ouens.
9 hours ago, Robbie Stewart said:The wind on Saturday past was so bad over Chapman's at times it was so strong I couldn't pedal into it. It was moving my bike around something fierce. Then it started raining for the last 30 km.
Whatever happens on the day, I'm ready. Just not heat. Please just not heat.
Ag, Robbie, wat is fout met 'n bietjie son?😎😃
2 hours ago, Jewbacca said:Yeah, ENO and Rennies are old wives remedies that 'seem' to assist with cramps, BUT, the proper way to deal with them is to prevent them or limit them to very hard efforts, not every ride.
If the cramps are on the inside of your thigh just above the knee, saddle height might be your problem.
But I still think that shouldn't happen every ride.
Zone 2 easy efforts often are your friend
Jewie, saddle height, too low or too high? You're making me think...
10 minutes ago, ChrisF said:
With the 99er entry we got a small page speaking about how and where to mount the chip - behind the seat post.
The page carried on to say IF you are going to mount it "any where else" to make sure it is mounted horizontally.
Maybe an electronics guru can explain why this horizontal thing is so important ....
Ja, asb!! Onthou daar's oumense ook wat ry....
20 hours ago, Spinnekop said:You are confusing Racetec chip (Which is obsolete) with the new seatpost mounted Finishtime/ractech chip.
No more ankle mounting even if you want to
Me was wondering... Saw a gent at Ride 4 Sight with his new Finishtime board mounted on the bike's fork, like some people used to do with their orange chips. Thought it might be too low to register.
But, on the other leg, so to speak, some of us being so short, the seatpost option might as well have been the fork mount.. 😜😎
1 hour ago, Jewbacca said:The comments section kills me on these.....
It's a lot of pointing fingers at the cyclists, which, to be fair, is somewhat warranted. Big groups are always a pain.
No one ever questions the cars though and if you do it's not relevant.
Like that entire section of road has a speed limit of 60kph but almost everyone is speeding.
The common denominator is humans. We are ALL junk at times. I've sped on that section of road many times, I've ridden 2 abreast on that section of road many times. Not maliciously or dangerously on purpose, but I have.
We can all do better. Drivers, cyclists, influencers and finger pointers. No one in the pictures, the comments or on this forum is throwing the proverbial first stone
Jewie, there's a reason why we say in Afrikaans mensDOM and diereRYK...
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Absolutely stunning pics!