tommy two shoes

Bloody hell, another 2nd place for Sagan!

Still a while... end of October

Did it for the first time this year and finished in 25hrs, was strong all the way and did not follow a traning plan. Just did 8hrs a week for 3 months mostly on the road bike. Longest ride was a road ride of 6hrs. You have to be fit but also mentally strong to get through some really tough patches eg: tiredness, butt pain, back pain, knee pain, why am I doing this? At the end of the day have fun enjoy the adventure and make friends. Riding with people who I met along the ride helped a lot

Haha, you right Ceejay. Let me go in the morning. By the way I will be riding black epic with red helmet. Tall blonde chap.

Sitting outside here in oudsthoorn and it's pretty cold and only 7pm. Don't have leg warmers, think I will survive without them?

Bought a Red-e 6000 mah power bank for my garmin 510 and light, works perfectly. Dont need a special cable as it charges the garmin while recording without switching off.

Sh*t is getting real now

Anyone in the Durban area doing training rides?

Oh dear, picked up a virus over the weekend so no training this week

Thanks the wise words Cejay, now let me go train too!

In the same boat, doing 7-8hrs a week. Longest ride was 150km at 6hrs on the road bike. Need to maybe do 1000 push ups or something!

Been tough to fit the hours in - work, kids & summer heat. Averaging 6 hours a week for the last three months, gonna increase to 8hrs till end of March. Hope that is okay. First time doing a mtb race over 105ks so should be interesting!

oh boy! thanks for the reminder.

Hi Cejay see you are based in KZN, what routes are you riding for training? Do you have any suggestions on what lights to use and essentials to pack. New to this night riding thing...

Thanks, had a look at your site as I am looking for a light. What would you suggest would be the best for an event like this and something I can use for training.

Any nutrition advice? What is the best to eat and drink, not keen to use the sweet stuff.

Entered and following this thread too, maybe change the heading "36one 2015" to make it easier to find.

J Batch for me

A couple climbs but nothing major, think around 1500m ascent.

Poor Nibali gets the turn away from one of the podium ladies... instagram.com/p/qHYSgwMEaS/

I know exactly which downhill you talking about! Fast rolling with berms in the forest, so sick!

Also loved the route, proper mtb'ing! I took it very easy and enjoyed the experience, some sections were super muddy and nearly came short a couple times. the last 20ks was very testing. hope to ride that route again.

Can we get day passes for these rides?

+-4000 riders, not sure about the rest

Sounds familiar... I got hit with 1200 vat and duty bill for an order of 2000 off crc (helmet and clothes)... Won't do that again!