Dominik

Havent entered yet... Havent trained at all for this... on the verge to buy entry to complete my 5th Solo The 36One is calling!!!

I'm so so jealous, this year was our first one with the goal of to enjoy it and finish each day, especially after all the teams that were out by day 3 (it's not something we all get to do every year so make the most of it) I'm already having serious issues of not doing it again next year, to all those that got in, go and enjoy it, it's a REALLY AWESOME experience. (So if anyone is looking for a partner and want to do it with the goal of to finish this race, perhaps look this side, I'm a really patient guy, passionate rider with a big love for the sport and for me to help someone with whatever means of motivation or what else is a even greater reward for me)

You only get 1 medal per year as far as I know, so if you do week 1 and week 2 it wont count as 2 seperate events to get the 5x times shield. You basically have to do it 5years.

Not my kind of bike, at least not now. Took it for a spin yesterday when our LBS just received them and asked me if I want to try it and man its a "fun" toy to have with loads of power.

What a awesome event, it was tough/windy/cold and I thought the organizer had a sick sense of humor closer to the end when I realized that there was the whole time 10km's more since the first distance markers started showing (but hey, its some free km's at the end of the day) I felt sorry for some of the guys going of Swartberg Pass pushing their bikes and some of them screaming from the top of their lungs F&^%# But I'm sure they were all happy to get that medal in the end, I will definitely be back and hopefully on a Gravel Bike, they were just flying past me on the tar downhill sections on my FS MTB. I'm also sure this event will still get a lot bigger.

ahhhhh, was keeping my eyes pinned on this one. Well done Guy & Patrick, hope you guys have a awesome Lesotho Sky.

Might be the shortest but you failed to mention it was the most climbing per km and a lot more technical than before as this was the biggest issue people had regarding the previous routes, hence all the dehydration that took part as people had to work for every km and didn't had a lot of open district roads with free km's to work with. Oh I forgot, you didn't get a entry to do it, so you won't know, hence why I don't get it why you give such half comments. Like the others said, if you don't have the money to participate don't come and moan here, create your own route make it affordable for everyone and do your own thing. I find it fascinating how people these days like to sit behind their keyboards and complain about everything just to have it their way. I take my hat off to Kevin Vermaak for doing what he did, making his money and that he can continue to increase the fee and demand is most definitely still there to do it with record sales.

Yes, Philip will be concentrating on Olympics this year, but none the less Gert & Mathys is a deadly combo.

@dominikos

Was in Cape Town over the weekend for the Cape Epic Riders Workshop and we went for some training thereafter at Hoogekraal & Meerendal, this was taken at the top of Dorsberg at Meerendal with my iPhone 6+

Did it for the first time last year, just after I started cycling in 16h42m and came in just before 03:00 in the morning, this year it felt even more difficult for me but we did it in 13h33m and came in 23:30, knocking 3h30m from our previous time, super happy with the results. My partner this year was also a lot stronger then my previous partner. Previous Partner struggled this year and pulled the plug at 175km's Awesome race and one of those events that's on the list each year.

Timo will probably break the record time he did last year.

Ah sorry, didn't knew that Strava change the ascent when uploaded from your bryton/garmin gps

Hehehehe, 3000m of climbing... more like 4000m did it last year and you can check all the uploads on strava from phones/brytons/garmins all showing 4000m

According to someone from Ecobound the route is pretty dry this year, but the road looks bad at some parts. (just some info)