My quick (by no means in detail) account of my Munga 2017 experience Bloem-VDK: Nice ride, hurricane winds for about 30min outside bloem, arrived 00:30, couldn't sleep (too much caffeine), set out 3am VDK-Britstown: Falling asleep on the bike until sunrise, tricky navigation into petrusville, corrugations (im on a hardtail), had a tailwind from WP3 - WP4, some ice cold homemade choc milk! Really suffered last 50km into britstown, was hot and windy! had a good 2hrs sleep in britstown Britstown - Loxton: I set out at about 17:00, it was hot and we had a head wind, trail magic at about 50km, coldest water ever from a friendly farmer! Some more falling asleep on the bike and a real struggle to get to WP6(treat of a water point, friendliest people they even made pancakes at 2am!), set out for loxton at 5am, arrived 7am. Had a nice scrambled egg breakfast in Loxton and 3hrs sleep! Loxton - Sutherland: Started just after 2pm. TOUGH as nuts. it was hot, it was windy, I hurled a few times 30km from loxton, WP7 very nice, slept an hour here, Fraserburg was closed at 9pm, and then some horrible jeep track to WP8, didn't sleep at WP8 and made for Sutherland. arrived in Sutherland just after 6am. broken...finished...klaar. Sutherland - Ceres: had a nice breakfast, 3hrs sleep, made for ouberg pass just after 2pm again hot and windy. Ouberg pass is much higher than I thought, you reach frightening speeds on your way down. WP9 was good, 1hrs sleep. Luckily had the Tankwa during darkness, WP10 had no sleeping space for me, had 5min on that red capret! Made for Ceres at 00:30, more falling asleep and sleeping in the road next to red romans, had some hallucinations and a coloured oke chased me to steal my bike, no really it happened. Got into Ceres at 6am. Bain's kloof feels never ending and it started to rain. I finished the Munga in just under 4days. I could have been more efficient in the race villages in terms of time. Try to keep momentum even if you're going slow and if you can practice and learn how to fall asleep real quick, it will help. I will do it again in a heartbeat! I think the entries open 1st of Jan!
