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Only 20 finishers at the top, and a further 30 at the relocated finish. A good few DNF, and I suspect a mass of DNS (although obviously not visible on the results sheet).

Shame, and it was icy rain too! Glad I did the race, it was actually only the last few km where the weather was a tad challenging.

Probably. But who knows. 🤷‍♂️

Website has something else, but with this organiser you never know where you stand... Sunday 27 October 05h00 - 05h30 @ Start No late entries or changes on race day only number collection LICENSED CATEGORY RIDERS: Collect their numbers on Saturday.

The one and only hilltop finish and we just can't get the weather gods onboard for this race... 😦

Organiser supplied GPX pulled into Strava and cleaned up a bit: https://www.strava.com/routes/3281898507469228468

That's what I'm talking about. They have a mailing list and that's the beginning and end of their panicked promotion strategy. They don't do socials or forums or club comms or bikeshops or anything else...

Since the organisers are hellbent on not promoting their own events (other than spamming the mailing list in all caps) let's revive the thread!

No plaaspad to get to the parking, and looks possible to have cars going in while cyclists use the other side as chutes. I don't foresee too much hassle with it.

Very little appeal in the middle of the only busy racing month of the spring season for non-Munga riders...

It's been in the current location in Oxford street for a good many years now.

I don't frequently use it for analytics, but checked now and all the power/cadence/HR data is there. Don't see the map, but also don't remember where to get that, but efforts have distances attached to them so GPS data is also there. I haven't updated GC in quite a while though.

Venue last year was a disaster. Not sure if this will be much better. Farms just aren't set up to have a mass of people all arrive and park at the same time like schools or town centres are...

Ek sien klaar uit vir my melkie by die einde!

Perhaps the GPX decision can be more than a gesture and actually serve as a reminder that this is one time access and you as the rider are an invited guest on race day only. 👍

I'm not doing the gravel so no skin in the game, but are you at least emailing the entrants a gpx file? Would be a weird condition if not allowed to share it at all since all of them will gps record it and then have access to it afterwards. Come to think of it, even the publishing limitation is weird since I can create a route from someone else's strava upload. Farmers not understanding the "modern" tech methinks... 😆

Gotta say the gravel climb on the road race has never been in better condition. Still brutal racing full throttle to the top!

Get two wheelsets. Make sure the road wheelset has decent internal width so that you can throw some 32c tyres on there. They are comfortable and fairly fast, and anything narrower looks comically small inside the gravel frame in my opinion.

I always find it interesting when a topic gets revived and then pre-revival comments get responded to... 🤔 😜

I've been asking for a 'report segment as bad version of another segment' feature for years...

@MyriadEventsSA Can't find any info online on the venue. What are the amenities like? Things to do for family / young kids while we slog it out on our bikes?

Is it the same socks or similar socks or the actual socks? 😜

Same bike (sort of), but that's a new bike yes.

Kent Main is not on a conti team. Even "domestic pro" would be a stretch of the word "pro" as his team has some product partnerships and minor support at best.

I'll take your word for it and assume the website needs updating... 🙂 "The 115km race will start outside Leipzig Farm about 500m before the infamous gravel section"