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  1. MrFine

    Who remembers?

    I am sure we thought we were more clever using RPN reverse Polish notation.7 Enter 7 x and so on.Good old days.
  2. Now that's one awesome Scott-Terrian.......
  3. Yes their are truly remarkable athletes out their. It sure does boggles the mind especially when you as a runner try compare yourself against them. Pure dedication to their profession.Not to mention pure talent.
  4. At the race briefing on Friday night you were given a topographic map with the route layed out on it.There were four check point with GPS coordinates you had to get to.Basically you got briefed to keep to the ridge of the mountain most of the time.there were also 3 beacons you passed indicating you we're on route.I basically just made a mistake when coming of the mountain.Gained some valuable experience.Awesome views and good bunch of trail runners that most of the time you stay in groups.
  5. Did the Brauhous 45km Mountain trail run yesturday.My first Marathon run.It was a self navigation route.Couple of us took the wrong ridge at breedts Nek making for some instresting hiking up the gorge to get back on route to check point 2.All went well for me until I had to get of the mountain at Elephants Neck in Rustenburg.Took me 3 time up and down to finally find the safe route down.Ended up doing 48km.I was out on the route for 9hours.Lost about 2hours due to navigation errors.This was an awesome race and I sure have gained some valuable experience.Thanks to all the great runners I met and the event organizers.
  6. Good Day All Doing the Brauhaus Mountain Trail run on saturday (45Km).This will be my first full Marathon run.Has any one done this race before.Looking forward to it.Below is the route information Cheers Route information: The route is NOT marked so each athlete will be given a map to assist on their journey. The race will start at the church and will proceed on jeep track all the way up the mountain to CHECK POINT 1 . Here the athletes will have their card punched and will proceed left of the check point back towards BREEDTS NEK where they will go through CHECK POINT 2. Here they will basically go back the way they came to CHECK POINT 3 where there will be water and some basic nutrition. Bearing in mind the athletes MUST carry a minimum of 3L of water as well as enough nutrition for the duration of the race, and the ever important FULLY charged cell phone. At this 3rd check point they make the journey across the magnificent mountain, keeping the ridge to their LEFT to the crescent where they make their way down the Elephants Trunk to CHECK POINT 4 , Dam Wall. There will be flags at the top of the mountain indicating the safest route down . Please don’t be a hero and try to take another route. Use this route!!!. From CHECK POINT 4 the route will be marked all the way to the Brauhaus (aprox 10km) where there will be Ice Cold beer and a hero’s welcome.
  7. Was raking up all the leaves the other morning and within 30min my M400 said I have completed 100% of my trainning today.Did'nt even break a sweat.But alls good.Still works well when used for trainning sessions.
  8. MrFine

    Polar V800

    Only opened this thread now so maybe you've done it all ready.When in polarpersonaltrainer just go to list view and select 25 training files at a time and upload to flow.Once uploaded it will be highlighted with a green tick.Took me quiet a while.In flow check your profile and all your statistics will be there.I uploaded from 2010 when I started.1716 training sessions.124d7h14m with 49410km done.Surprising how it all adds up.At least I have everything in one place now.
  9. Just wandering what or where is Yolande Speedy lately.Seems to have fell of the Mountain biking radar of late.
  10. I'am slavering now.I think shimano will pay you for a review like this.Enjoy all those miles.........
  11. Just as you go past the Shabeen to the T-junction tar road turn right and go through the dip and about +/- 1 Km on the right you will see Tree Tops farm stall. Has lots of stock and quite a variety off nice goodies.Coldrinks,Ice-creams you name it.Nice lady that works there aswell and can tell you what happening around the area.
  12. I did the Ultra and got stuck at the floating bridge for over an hour with all the guys falling in.Walk,wait,walk,wait and so on.Eric from van Gaalens then told us to take the portage section because everything was taking so long.Then had to carry my bike over a kloof which took a lot out of me.Missed the ultra cut off and was sent on the marathon route.Told the organizers of DNF of the ultra at the end but at least I still rode the marathon route.I also think it's the technical downhill befor the bridge that slows the field down and causes a bottle neck.
  13. I use it all the time to log my rides and running.Great tool to keep me motivated and have made a lot of friends through the app.I always make segments after my rides,quiet addicted to doing it.So if you ride in and around the Buffelspoort valley there are plenty segments around.Enjoy
  14. Yes should have done the draw by your race number.Just imagine slogging it out for 6 plus hours finishing the race and being awarded a bike in a lucky draw.Now that's what dreams are made off.
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