'Kaze Pete

Sal more self 'n paar fotos gaan neem. "nuwe" reelings is weer weg... Nuutste fotos wat ek gesien het,

Eventually settled on a TR Switch. Kinda what I can get, ticking boxes I (wrongly?) believe are important (to me) and actually not bad looking "baaiesukkel". I'm working on N+1, but I'm still far from approaching @NotSoBigBen and his bevy of bicycles. Now, just the countdown to New Bike Day!

Do your son a favour, get him off Strava and stop worrying about social media ‘noddy badges’, or the lack thereof

3 of us set out to do make use of the holiday to do a 120km ride. Covering some Crater Cruise roads plus more. The route (barring start / finish) Some of the photos Those on the Crater Cruise Route: The road towards Venterskroon Venterskroon: Towards the end of "Suikerbossie": And not on the Crater Cruise route: Schoemansdrift bridge across the Vaal Into the valley on what we call the "Klein Crater" route Stop taking photos, I'm still in my PJs! It is a long weekend!

I'm using TrainingPeaks Virtual for days I do not want to venture outside. It is included in a TrainingPeaks premium sub, but that is included in how I use the platform

I dropped 13kg this year. No funny stuff, no funky diets, no books, no miracle cures, no sickness. Just no sugar and minimizing fats. During that I "slowly" started building up my training volume. I tracked calories in/out by logging all intakes on MyFitnessPal, and using a heart rate monitor & power meters to measure training efforts. I'm now at a level where I need to eat carbs to sustain training volume, but I still log all intakes. I reached a point where I need carbs again to sustain my training. Currently have an issue where it becomes a concerted effort to reach my rough requirement of 21000 kcal a week. I try to keep food as 'clean' as possible. Not completely whole foods only, but staying as far away as possible from processed anything. Swapped fizzy drinks (even the Diet/Zero variants) for sparkling water, and yip I stay away from alcohol.

I don't always have the opportunity for an easy mid-week cruise, so another river photo around sunset.

And then there is this, apparently 'a nice day for cutting trees' https://www.reddit.com/r/gravelcycling/comments/1jz1huz/2025_barry_roubaix_guy_drops_a_tree_on_a_racer

I did the first one, but had to bow out due to an injury for the others. But...we just did the 'Afrika' route, with some interesting extra bits and bobs 🙃 I think other races went to / started at the other side of town Ross is busy dreaming up another ride for us (maybe not a race) involving some steep climbs on private land stretched over 40km (or so he says).

Had to stop at the river in town around sunset.

Another shout out to Le Tour Cycles! Shaun has become my go to guy for cycling repairs / stuff

We generally start from the Beerhouse in Parys on Saturday mornings. With the saturated soil/big puddles on the gravel roads we've generally been riding to / past Venterskroon the last while. These roads tend to drain much better than some of the others in the area On Easter Monday some of us are doing a 120km ride (Non-ultra preppers) The Saturday after Easter others are doing a 200km (36One preppers)

My go-to response is "Nothing, I just like to be tired" 😀 If you ask me at the Crater Cruise, I might give an honest answer 😁

Is this high? I'm averaging 651 over the past 10 weeks. Past two weeks were 767 & 770

A quiet rural Free State road on a Sunday morning