LongDonkey

Yeah and i will have to stand at the back..... again........ Otherwise they cut my head off in the photo.....

From my perspective, i am one of the a holes who is having my number collected for me. There are corporate bonds and a whole lot of other people who do not want to wait in a queue. The fact that these companies etc pay for the privilege is the companies choice. If need be why not get someone else to collect your numbers for you as well. As far as parking is concerned, if you dont want to pay the parking fee, its a 50 or 60 m walk from the PnP parking area. I think it is a rip off as well, but the choice is there.

People seem to be a bit extreme on their opinions on this. Deliberate actions by professionals or people invoved with making money from the sport should result in harsh punishment, stoopid behavior should be harsh as well but 4 yrs for an amateur in E batch is a little silly.

A1 guys walked the bottleneck section by that water tank as well. Very nice piece of track but i can see it would have been a killer an hour after i went through. Advendurance have only "solved" this problem by limiting the number of entrants to their events. 1500 people who are slow is gonna kill anyones ambition. Agree with general comments that with this number of entrants, you need at least 2 pieces of track for the entire course otherwise it will be a joke and frustrating. Give a 2 to 4 km chicken run option to people who can not (or should not ) do the 250 m of that single track. i.e. the old route around that water tank. Otherwise i enjoyed the race.

If you going 1 bottle route, stop at every water table in the second half of race if you not expecting a sub 5 hour race. Its warm on the highway

Go to LBS with rims. Ask what can be done, with pretty pictures and physical items placed in front of you. Conversion was on tubeless ready Stans with Maxxis and tubeless ready "Tape" (apparently) Stans sealant has worked for me Cough up some bucks, say thank you and go home. PS take a spare tube with you anyway cos a side wall tear F's you big time when you 20 km from help.

Saw this on Racetec this morning. Guess someone was editing the data base directly. Check average speed of "winner" file:///C:\Users\DEREK~1.MET\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg

94 kgs Pyga came standard with them I'm not the best technical rider, walked down that silly rocky descent at VG's (dont like going over handle bars again) Otherwise reasonably fast and enjoy rough sections. Run 2.5 bar on tyres for anywhere there are rocks, otherwise the rims will hit the rocks I take the punishment on handling and traction with a higher pressure No problems on trueing or other problems Guess the question is "How aggressive are you for your weight?"

I was emailed with my time, and also received an SMS with same info. I entered on line before cutoff. Not sure what your situation was.

1st time as well. No idea what to expect. Been told its easier than 94.7, but not sure i believe them though. First ascent looks long.

OK, OK, i finally get it. The real reason why no one drafst in triathlons. Far more believable reason than than that "Its illegal,...... and you are racing yourself" crud.

Had my seat post dropper on my Pyga too. NEEDED it a lot. Happy to take the weight penalty

Took 3 weeks off training while overseas and felt it a lot. Rocks were a killer and not strong enough to move my bike through them, saw some nasty over handle bars accidents on the descent from the radio telescope area. Jo Bliksem was tougher than i remember from last year. Thanks to he guy who guv me some water at 68 km and the started cramping badly with 700 m to go. I am sure he finished ok. Hakahana may be more accent, but less rocks which makes it easier to my mind.

Was with you Grondpad, on that tour through the township, Bit annoying that we all missed the markers which were not great, wonder how the other batches and riders saw what we missed. Lessons learnt i guess.