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Does any one know how the racing categories will work during the TOGH. Elites is obvious. But Team, open ,age cats? Anyone?

I think the main culprit was actually receiving that UCI accreditation. Lots of fine print that was never taken into consideration and adjustments had to be made to ensure every box is ticked. For 2020 they have way more time so can get all the required approvals way in advance.

Afternoon, Can someone please assist with a route profile or Strava File. Would like to see all the climbs so I can prepare myself for them Tnx

Crossing the white line only happens when cross winds are at play, $ don't just decide to ride across both lanes for the fun of it. But you will need to ride there to understand. That being said, at least 2km of this was covered by marshals and without realising this we had a rolling road closures going, yes maybe forced but we had it with marshals warning the cars ahead and the cars actually giving way. Real problem started when the break was way ahead and required the marshal/s to move up leaving the peloton "unprotected" and this is where the problem is and will always be, basically groups that are dropped.

Well Done Cyclopaths Cycling Club. Really looking forward to this event, form might not be where it should be but should still be great fun. Great way to the weekend worriors to expience a multi stage race and a fraction of the price.

So while out cycling between all the CT Marthon Runners the bug bit me.... So looking at giving running a go, have no idea how i will be able to fit this into an already 10-13 hours a week cycling.. But why not. Would like to do a half before end of year. Plan would be Easy 5km 3 x times a week and start building from there. Lets hope old body can keep up. Then the big one, how will this influence my cycling?

Had to dig a little deep for this race, Was surprisingly very hard for me Very Good Training to Savage Boys ...Did tons of work upfront

and here I was thinking I'm the only unwise one to take on the TT blind. You are very brave to take on those small hills without having done them at an easier pace before Franschoek Pass = 7.3 km @ 6.6 Du Toits Back 26.1km @ 2.3% Du Toits Front 12.1 @ 4.8 Bains 9,2 @ 3.5 Taal Monument = 2km Lots of pain ... only place where special gearing might be required, for the rest 39/25 should be fine but I will be running a 39/28 all the way for when I get dropped and nothing left in the legs

Eina, All the best to you.. hopefully you will be back on bike soon soon

Hopefully we will get a 40kph+ SE blowing on the day. I need to collect stories to tell my grandkids some day

Sub Vets as well Would have actually preferred a team race for my first multi day event , have some support around me. But 1 thing is for sure in sub vets ...there will be no GENTLE

So ....... 7 days to GO :clap: Wont lie, I am seriously nervous and very exited at the same time, never done a stage race before so will be very interesting to see how body takes the load and keep on going at that type of intensity. Never done a TT before ,yes should have put in some time on the bars ..but where the fun in that. Going in Blind So to the gents that's been there and got a shirt....please share all the how's, what to look out for ..the when ETC ETC TNX

Had a few Partial loads already, seems like damaged is normally caused when trying to upload to Strava from Zwift as that normally hangs a little. Nothing I could do to fix this, when you go download ride on zwift , it says partial on it and data is missing.

Tnx Guys : Would not say it was pure luck but there was a lot of luck involved, really didn't expect it. Biggest goal was DO NOT GET DROPPED and when you eventually do get dropped make sure its past the 100km mark

Tnx S2S as they had a big role in the below Bronze vet 30-34 Age Cat @ SA Champs 2017

Believe me ...its an art. Not as easy as people make it out to be

So you were in CT this weekend? Nothing that I noticed, spoke to a few elites ,same thing. Nothing

Would just like to thank S2S(John Wakefield) for everything he has done thus far for me Participated in a race this weekend and achieved my best results to date, looking forward to stepping it up some more.

So I did the race and was actually very surprised at the fact that there were no Doping control Nothing , zero.. I mean its only the biggest "Race" in SA.

What a Race...... Some numbers for those Interested Time +-3:20 Avg Power = 229 Normalized Power = 267 @ 65 kg Next year this race should end top of Taal Monument.. Can we get a partition going for this?

all Good, the Million dollar question is ..... What do the winner of & and @ get? No use splitting them and calling it a "Racing Age Cat " if you win nothing...my opinion.

$ = +- 2 Index / Team/ Invite & = 30+ (10 Index) Guessing( Could be top 500 in age?) @=40+( 10 Index) Above(Could be top 500 in age) # = Tandems 1A = Elites (10 Index) but not +-2 as per $ %= Woman 1B = as per Index mix What I make of all this

That is 1 seriously deep question for a Friday For me to judge program vs program would be impossible , as this is my first and have nothing to compare it against. You on the other hand as an experienced cyclist with loads of different coached/programs would be able to tell me immediately if its good or bad. In reality I'm a very practical guy and not really to concerned with how you kill the "CAT" but more about are you sure that the cat is actually dead, find a lot of people worry about how to kill it but forget about actually killing it. HOW Much.. Me being my optimistic self I would say I'm probable +- 7% stronger , money related that would be 1.5k already in just over a month and half, yes I'm aware that this improvement rate will be impossible to continue but a good guide line. As far as actual figures are concerned, once again would be impossible to say as I do not have anything to compare it against, but my estimate would be around R800-R1000 pm based on gains made( this is based on no experience and is probable way out), now the real challenge will come when the gains are a little more difficult to make and the coach will need to dig into some serious methods to extract those last few Watts...