GaryvdM

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Ok, my bad.

Yes, can mean what you are thinking about. I was using def number 5 from this page: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bonk : "To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion."

2 Gu's for 5 hours is way to little. What carbs/sugars did you eat/drink? If that was all, the reason your "quads totally seize" is you most certainly have bonked. I know lots of people think that gu's are bad (sugar high/lows.) I find they work for me, BUT you have to consume them on a regular scheduled. They recommend every 30-45 minutes. I have one every 40 min. So I had at 0:40, 1:25, 2:05. If you only consume them when you feel low, it's too late. If you are aiming for 4:00, you need 5 gu's. (This can get expensive. You can buy gu's in boxes of 24 at Dischem. They work out to about R13 each. Much cheaper than the R20 my lbs charges.)

A work colleague claimed this has happend in the mens section (A bunch gets faster time than elites), but I looked through every year on the results site and could not find it. Maybe it was for another race.

I agree that you can't change this for elite & vets groups, but in the open seeded groups, most people don't care about their position in the group. The thing they care about is their time.

They use the time you crossed the mat to work out your start group. They use the start time of the group (gun time) to work out your total time. Did you start at or near the front of the group? This is why I think it would be a good idea to change it to mat to mat for open seeded groups, and to educate people about this. Take the incentive away to push to the front, and maybe people will stop doing it.

So maybe do gun to mat for elites & vets, and mat to mat for all open seeded.

It uses the gun of the group you actually start in. So they take your start mat time, work out what group you started in, and take the group start time as your start time.

Well done. You must have done a lot of tt'ing to get that time starting in GG.

If it is gun to mat, please consider changing it to mat to mat, to take away the incentive to push in to the front at the start.

He have never insisted on riding against. He has said he always rides with, but is debating if riding against is safer.

Ok. I was wondering if I might have seen you, but I did not.

Yhea, saw him on the N14. What kit where you in Cav?

This type of comment is not on imo.

What does it mean: to switch on someone?

Provisional results are up: http://results.cyclechallenge.co.za/ Got my goal of sub 3: 2:51:06 Started in K, and felt like I tt more than 50 % of the race.

Forecast.io is predicting Light rain till 7am and westerly winds (Nice: tail wind on the N14.) http://forecast.io/#/f/-26.0997,28.0432/1384639200 Have a good race everyone. Good night.

Thanks a lot. See you tomorrow.

I bought a second hand (but hardly used) Microtech 50mm carbon/au clinchers on Friday, and took them for a spin on Friday afternoon. Very nice. However: doing last minute prep for the race tomorrow, it dawned on me that the spare tubes I have don't have long enough valve stems. Does anyone know where I could get spare tubes at this 11th hour? Maybe someone has spare would like to sell to me, and meet me at the start. I'm starting in K at 7:15. My phone number: <redacted>

On second thoughts: if I'm driving my car on this road and I encounter a cyclist riding against traffic, and an oncoming car, I'm going to treat the cyclist like a pedestrian, I.e. they better get off the road. (I will try give the cyclist as much room as possible, but there is not much else that can be done.) But if I were to encounter a cyclist riding with traffic, I'm going to treat them like other traffic, so I will overtake only when safe to do so. So if there is an oncoming car, I will slow down to the speed of the cyclist's speed, in till it is safe to pass. I know not everybody drives like this, but I believe that the majority do. And cyclists can encourage this by taking up the primary position when appropriate.

Yhea maybe. Provided that the density of intersections is very low.

Even if you were to see the drunk driver heading at at you with 5 seconds to spare (this is a high est.) and the road edge looks like the pics bellow, there is not much you could do to get out the way. (I certainly could not climb up these without dismounting, and by the time you stop and unclip, that 5 seconds is up.

Yhea, I does not bother me, as I have lots of safety pins. I just worry for the guy who does one race a year, and is not prepared for this. Are Cav and I just the odd ones that did not get pins, or did everybody not get pins?