Hennie VR

70km entry up for grabs. https://www.bikehub.co.za/classifieds/54147-trailseeker-no-2-70km-entry/

Shall we wait at the finish with a "RECOVERY drink"

My Bad. Edited

Bargain Hahaha. Nice try, but won't you get DQ if you start in a lower batch.

Ja for sure! If you can keep to C batch avg then you deserve to be there

Got a F seeding. Did the Curro College 70km in 3:05 and passed many B & C batch riders but still get an F seeding Seeding index 43.47 now and friend of mine with +- the same seeding index gets into C batch. Eish I dont understand. On the bright side............... It will be a bit warmer by the time I start

SA Seeding website is no longer available

SA Seeding website no longer available! Hopefully they are updating their system/website!

Sure but if you desigh yourself you can save that money. They did say they want to design themself. I do think that their quality is great

These guys also have quality kit. http://www.pandasport.co.za/contact.html

Core exercise also important for climbing ability.

Ps. You should stop doing these two days before your big training rides. I do 3-5 sets of 20-30 reps (nice and slow) on Mon, Tue, and Wednesday after my spinning exercise. Hamstring curls and some calf raises also help. but I do many reps on low weight.

These work great and you can do them at home as well.

Size increasing the longer I look at the picture

Hahaha! what a great invite to the race Would love to do it. My fuel allowance is PATAT and the Western Cape is a long way from Gauteng!

Be there early to get a decent parking!

My total elevation gain was 381m. Pity I dont know how to post my elevation graph/picture from garmin connect. By the looks of it the biggest climb was less than 100m

I avg'ed 18km/h but I rode with some buddies of mine. I think we finished around the middle of the field. I reckon you should be able to avg between 18 and 20km/h.

Red Barn is nice and flat. You should be able to complete it easily

Years back they used timing chips to time riders. This same system is still being used in road races to time more accurately. Why can't this system be used for timing mtb events anymore? It picks up your start time when you cross the timing mat and stops it when you cross the mat at the end as well. The system can even pick up riders that takes short cuts if they put another mat at halfway etc. Now we have a system that also uses a chip but is dependent on a person that has to scan your board at the end. And to be quite frank I have had my board miss scanned on many a occasion. I now ask the person scanning to make sure he/she scanned my board and sometimes you even get a rudeish "it did pick up" answer, which is understandable if 2000 riders ask you to make sure their board is scanned. The question is: Is this the best system to be used for the mtb events? Can the system be improved? Does the system get upgraded? or should we just settle and be happy with the system as is?

Since you are FYFI'ing I suggest you HTFU

Suppose it will help if I read all available info on the website Tnx

How am I suppose to find my photos! It seems they are not uploaded according to your race number. So you will have to sit and browse all the photos until you find yours?

I really hope they don't ban it completely. It will be the death of Epic Fails on Youtube.

True. I also can’t see how it’s distracting. I suppose not all people's hand eye coordination is awesome to find and push the small silver button whilst being on a bumpy single track.