lurkerza

they are a bit far from you but I swear by Finish Line cycles in Kempton. My bikes come back looking and feeling brand new!

Well done Cheese! It was a tough day out and not the easiest route I've ever done, but for the money they charge you cannot get anything close to half decent. I only saw the event on Friday so had to do a late entry on the day. The swim was a lot longer than they advertised and I see most people clocked about 1,9km! I managed the swim in about 39 min, which I was quite happy with considering I have done minimal swim training. The bike route was fun, pretty much the usual route round the cradle, and managed a 1:18. I knew I was in for a difficult run, but the added heat made it even harder and ended up walking a lot of the climbs, but was happy with just under 1:06 for the almost 11km. And at least I managed to finish ahead of the winning lady for a change! It was the first race of a 6 race series and I will definitely be doing a few more of them. I think it is a great training session for some of the longer races as it is not flat at all! I am glad i got this one in before East London to test the legs on the hills. Next on is on the 25th of Feb I see and run all the way until October, def check them out guys. Here is a link to the one we just completed in case anyone is interested: http://redhub.co.za/2017/11/redhub-event-7-january-2018/

According to the leaderboard three guys have completed challenge 3 already!! Seems a bit dodgy to me So far only 398 have managed to complete challenges 1 and 2, maybe a few more need to still sync their weekend rides with Strava. Find it odd that some of the guys with massive distances completed so far in challenge haven't managed to get challenge 2 done. But the field is thinning! Keep pushing guys!

I won the lucky draw prize for the first challenge (so that you guys know that there are prize winners - based on posts preceding these!). Meant to be getting a Virgin Cycling top and then a gym bag hamper thing. Also only just made the 400km on the first challenge after wiping out 11km into my cycle leg on a triathlon to push me past the 400km, so I had to come home and do the remaining km on the watt bike at the gym full of roasties. Challenge 2 was a bit of a mission to do suffering with flu, but got it finished up yesterday afternoon. Challenge 3 should be fun with the 94.7 Mtb race on the last day of the 2 weeks, so looks like I'll be doing a 4 hour ride Sat and then coasting along on the 94.7 route on Sunday.

Fran: 6:15 at 35kg Helen: 9:58 Cindy: 13 rounds Back Squat: 105kg Front Squat: 82kg Clean: 80kg Def dont take my ego to class - I rather go lighter and hit it faster. We did LMS this last weekend - just the beginner classification, but was such a jol and really surprised myself!

I did it last year - excuse the poor run time and ignore the profile indicated - my Fenix 2 was playing up badly that day! here is my strava activity: https://www.strava.com/activities/504509655

The only place I'll take my bike for a service! It is like you get a brand new bike after every service and I have never had to take it back for adjustments. I've got rubber grips for my tri bars - they scrubbed those up on the bike clean - I was going to see if I could find replacements but when I collected it after the service there was no need any more.

11Global race at Sun City on 15/16 October,do the sprint on Saturday or the Olympic distance on Sunday, or both if you are up for it!

SHOT man - been looking all over for a pic of a Springs built chopper in the same colour scheme as mine! I wanted to check if the mud guards had been painted purple as all the pics I have seen of choppers have got chromed mudguards. I just need to find a gear knob for it and the seat strap and she is complete! DAY MADE!!! PS, hope you win the wheels for such a noble deed, i was thinking about doing something similar