Cyclewizz

Sorry to hear about all the splits especially over the festive season. Strongs to all of you going through the various stages of divorce / splitting up. I've been there and done it. In a few days time I'll be divorced for 12 years. There's enough solid advice on this thread already. The only thing that I'd like to add is that the world continues and even though at this stage it may feel as if the world has come to an end it hasn't. Once the divorce has been finalised and the scars begin to heal life will go on. I to felt like the world had come to an end but looking back it was probably one of the best things that ever happened to me. I've been on so many adventures that I wouldn't have gone on if I was still married (granted there would have been different adventures). Just remember that there is a bigger plan for each us. When feeling a little down go for a bike ride and remember to wave at the other cyclists (especially in CT)

I understand what you saying but the opposite is also true. Hammer it for 2 min, take the HR monitor off and a recovery session looks like a tempo session. Looking into my crystal ball I'll predict that eventually they'll use power and then things will be more difficult but I suppose somebody will find a loop hole. Plenty of ways to cheat the system but eventually the cheater will be caught out.

I discovered this one day when my HR monitor stopped working. I was busy with my session and my avg HR was at 60% or 70%+ and then there was nothing for a period of time. Finished with the same avg HR as when it stopped working. The "flaw" is actually on the device side. The device records your HR and works out your avg HR and then if there's nothing it just leaves it there. Suppose that it doesn't know what to use and it can't use zero (because you'd be dead) and so it just stops calculating HR.

If I remember correctly the cap on the fitness device is R2500 I'm guessing that there'll be some list to choose from ??

You had nothing to worry about. You do a lot of riding and spend a lot of time "playing" with your bikes.

These Hubbers need to ride more: 1. Dale - 4448 2. Patchelicious - 3690 3. Gen - 3573 4. Cav' - 2882 5. Pure Savage - 2772 6. Myles Mayhew - 2646 7. gummibear - 1685 8. BaGearA - 1596 9. shaper - 1524 10. rider#35 - 1495

I also got 600 points. I think you only get 1500 if the event is longer than 100km. I got 1500 points for Shova and Carnival City

All good for me at the moment. Can log into the App. This mornings workout is showing.

If you press "VIEW INFO" on the reward it will give you the list. Breakfast Bowl Power Oats Smashed Avo on Toast Almond Butter Toast Dragon Fruit Smoothie Bowl

Seems like every time it's Spin Wednesday their server/s

I can't even log on so there's no spinning for me at this stage.

Then you'd be really popular. Just keep doing what you do and understand that some things are just out of your control.

I wasn't there so I can't state it as a fact but I also have no reason to disbelieve the guy that told me. If they had to disqualify people that crossed the white line I guess that they'd disqualify 30-40% of the field. This would probably result in 30-40% less people entering that particular event the following year and that's where the problem lies - 30-40% less income. I would guess that the Elites also cross the white line and nothing seems to happen there either. Sometimes it's just practical to cross the white line, maybe there's a hole on the left hand side of the road and the whole bunch moves right and then back again but then there are guys that just ride there and when a car comes from the front they squeeze in and that's when a crash often happens. Yesterday in the B bunch it was ok, even though the bunch was big there wasn't much squeezing in besides that time the marshal stopped his bike on the white line.

As far as I'm aware the 3rd challenge only started today so to do 2 x 4 hour rides by 11am seems very dodgy. Suppose they could do 2 x 4hr rides in the same day but that's a bit unlikely IMO. Since we have 2 weeks to complete the challenge it doesn't really matter. Surely it's who has completed the 2 x 4hr rides in the allocated time, shouldn't make a difference if it was achieved in 2 days or in 14 days. Nice to see a hubber winning 1 of the prizes. Hopefully I also win 1

I'm still in but I haven't won any prize yet. Surprisingly I managed the distance challenge (1st one). Did a 70km ride and then the Garmin file was corrupt so I couldn't download it and then rain "forced" an indoor session. I thought that I was out but on the Monday after this challenge ended I received an sms saying that I had completed the 1st challenge. The 2nd (climbing) challenge was easier for me to complete as there were no corrupt files nor rain to interfere with my riding. I've completed that challenge by my calculations. Now we on the 3rd challenge and as long as the rain stays away on the weekends I'll manage the 2 x 4hr rides. That's where the challenge will end for me. I have no intention of booking and going for classes. I am just after one of the mini prizes but so far I have won JACK !!!!

In some races the marshals still tell the bunch to keep left, this marshal said nothing, just parked his bike to the right of the line. He got sworn from a few riders, was very unpopular after that. The problem I have with guys crossing over the line is that when a car comes they move left and squeeze back into the bunch and often it's some poor guy who's riding on the left that gets taken out. Heard that one of the Vets bunch were completely in the right lane (because of the wind) and the cars were overtaking them on the left side of the road.

My 1500 Vitality points have already come through ???? The only problem in the B bunch was the marshall deciding to stop his motorbike to the right of the white line, a few guys almost rode straight into him. No interference from the 65km bunches as they nowhere to be seen for some reason.

Oh sorry to bother..... I'm just a fun (tar) rider, we get a bit more than just a sticker :-)

What's the sticker for Bennie ?? Can I have 1 of them (to save me a trip) ?

Hey G, Why you making it cold this weekend. I see the weather forecast for Sunday morning is around 6 degrees ???? BRRRRRR Like the wind was't enough you bring the cold into it as well ???

Yip, I heard after I posted that 2 people had won. @shaper I also have trained for many years without getting anything back from Vitality. I do however get free membership to 1 x VA as long as I meet my yearly goal. Would still continue to train even if they did away with the incentive. Definitely wouldn't spend R50 or R100 a week on smoothies. IMO rewards in general are there to lure people (Vitality, eBucks, etc) and once they created enough awareness they start to pull back little by little.

But you won't get a R100 voucher every 3rd week. The spins will be calculated to only pay out what in their budget. Yes somebody will eventually win the holiday but by that time Vitality would have saved double or triple the money. At R50 a smoothie we were getting 6 for a 3 week cycle = R300 Now even if you get the R100 voucher you still short: 3 x R50 smoothies + R100 voucher = R250 They made it sound like it so much better but they screwing us. They must have taken some lessons from our current government but managed to put more sugar on it,

So under the new system in a 3 week cycle we'll get 4 x smoothies instead of 6. But have the chance of getting a voucher / holiday / etc instead of that 4th smoothie. I think we can conclude that the surprise spin reward will be mainly the normal stuff (smoothies, coffee, popcorn, etc). There might be some R100 vouchers but there's no way that they loose when "adding" everything together. In the grand scale they'll be saving money.

I spun and got the normal options of a smoothie, coffee, etc. Once the team rewards fall away we'll only get the 2nd reward every 3rd week (assuming that the goals are met each week) ?

Who's the R100 voucher for ?