I had a bilateral sympatectomy a couple of years back, so I can't sweat from my nipple-line upwards. (Stupidest op anybody could ever go and do) Started @ 09:52 yesterday with my 16kg MTB, slicks and finished in 06:20. Toughest 6 hours of my life. I managed 05:13 last year on the same bike, full knobblies. I'm a jogger and fairly fit, but the 6 hours on a seat killed me. What is worse is that I wanted to refill my water at the stop on Smitswinkel, and they were out of water. I asked at every water point after that, and could only get water again at the "Sportsman's warehouse" stop just before chappies. At one point I overheated so much I decided to start pouring Coke over myself All in all I lost 6kgs yesterday, didn't pee once, and drank about 7.5litres of fluid during the race, so my back was basically sweating like a river. (Meant I sweated about 13litres in total) I won't ever be as stupid as to not do seeding events for the Argus, as it's pointless riding in such heat, with so many people during the heat of day. PS - while going up chappies, the entire left third of the road was full of people sitting around. The rest of the road was walking, so everybody had to walk. Regardless of the above, I decided I want to get into cycling a bit more, and want to do a couple of 40-90km rides, just looking around where I could find these around CT.
