My second BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG race. Phew, glad that’s over with. I had a few minor hiccups. . We were delayed a few min because there was a car accident on one of the roads... . I overheard one of the marshal on the loud speaker mentioning ‘’the ladies are off’’. I looked around me and didn’t see any ladies. So I asked the marshal dude ‘’ladies off?” him, ‘’yes, you better go quickly’’. Anyhoo, it was too late...so I was with the next bunch. The one chap next to me said ‘’morning’’ and I mentioned that I missed my batch with the ladies. He said, ‘’not to worry, you can ride with the old guys today’’. . So I was in a bit of a tizz and trying to quickly get my bearings together...i was standing with one foot clipped in and I don’t know what happen but the bike did one slide to the one side...i manage to get one hand out...so didn’t fall flat. Few guys in the batch turned around and I just gave a small smile and said, ‘’sorry, just thought I’d shake things up a bit’’ I think I scared them. Whoops. . The amount of bottles that were dropped in the first 30kms!!!! . After the M7 loooooooong climb, there was water table number one. I had a Bin Laden look alike cut in front of me and came to a sudden stop in the middle of the lane (he didn’t even go to the side or LOOK BEHIND HIM). He was still far away from the table, he wouldn’ve had to get on his bike or walked with his bike. Anyhoo, I landed up crashing. I guess the first “half fall’’ wasn’t good enough, so i decided to try again and add more hardcore. Bin Laden did apologise about 10 times. I said ‘’its fine’’ and we all know what ‘’it fine’’ really means when it comes to the ladies. . Then about 10km after my incident...i was few metres behind this lady going down a hill and next thing I saw her slide right across the one lane with her bike and she smacked hard into the barriers. So I stopped to see if she was ''ok'' and this other guy who was ahead of her. She had nasty grazes. . Damn motorist who take their chances! I had four cars zoom past me right behind each other. They manage to slip past a marshal. They were unmarked cars. I shat bricks because I wasn’t expecting cars to zoom past me. I did see about 4 cops run into the road and manage to stop them. . Then I cycled past a stop street and before I’m even cycled across to the otherside, this dude in his car was slowly creeping forward and towards me to go across. Pity I didn’t side kick his car, that how close he was to me. . My Mp3 player died on me not holding battery life. I like to have one ear piece in one ear with music on...just to keep me sane, since i always land up cycling on my own in a few patches along the way... . I was so over the cycle and irritated but I carried on...chatted to this one lady while going up a climb. She mentioned if I do the Argus, I must book with Khalu and early. There’s no fee for your bike if you go with them...hmmmmm. I’m a bit nervous though because I had my one bag crushed while flying overseas. I had to buy a new one in England. . To me this race was tougher compared to Amashova. More slow climbs especially between Umhlanga and La Mercy – tail end of the race. . I manage to spot and shout ‘’hello’’ to my mates and step dad who did the 45km. Oh, what does ‘’chafe’’ mean? Otherwise glad it’s over and done with. My butt was feeling it. I’ve never had problems with my butt when it came to cycling or spinning (I just assume because it’s well padded) but sjoe, I was in pain. Need to sort that out... I will do this race again...definitely need to stick to my spinning and cycling. I’m still very nervous to cycle on my own on the road (relying on my step dad/ma is a bit of a hassle), I will look into joining a group, maybe East Coast. Next road race is... Toti 69er in July. Some guy who also cycled the race asked me at the end “”well done, how do you feel?’’ Me ‘’I feel lekker ,thanks” him, "hahaha, just wait 5 min then you won't be feeling so lekker'. Ha, i was already in pain but happy it was done and dusted. Got my medal Ahhh, one photo was taken of me with a Gu packet hanging from my mouth. I just saw this random guy sitting on a chair with jeans on but topless and when I came closer to him, he whipped out his camera and took a photo. Great. Oh well, nice to add a bit of spice to the photo i guess... BUT the following camera dude after him, I was prepared for, I did a hand signal pose. I hope he caught that. Who else did this event and how did it go?
