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Dirkitech

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  1. I'm a new vitality member since jan 2019 and they already frustrate me a lot. They send email correspondence to other people instead of myself (how even???), almost one week per month tends to not record points properly and require me to perform admin to make sure it applies correctly, there were some other irregular gremlins too, but so far its been a lot more wasted time on admin than I ever anticipated.
  2. It started working like you said, but only half right. Saturday's and Sunday's activities are still indicating "pending" but the activities during the week showed fine. I did send a query but nothing so far. Anyone else still getting noyesno results?
  3. Has anyone else been experiencing Vitality points issues? Every activity since the 13th says "pending" and my active rewards goal became 0
  4. My gr1 maffs, that's like 21ish km per climb... what would the gradient be for such a climb?
  5. Would the strava feature "with friends who recorded?" not be able to override devices that under recorded?
  6. To everyone who gave opinions and advice a few weeks ago when I asked about running shoes - thank you! I've bought the Brooks Ghost 11 since and am very happy with them. Everything they were described to be- fast feeling high drop, wide toe box, flexible, enough padding to feel like they absorb harder impacts. Running is great!
  7. Sounds like a glitch from a vitality group thing? I didn't even know they sent sms's for achieving fitness goals, thought only app notifications!
  8. What Eddy says, but also consider running the shorter loop in repeats. I'd advise you have emergency numbers ready (assuming there is signal?!) because puff adders and warm tar! There is a troop or two of active baboons too, not to discourage, just a warning to have a glance to your sides before pulling out a lekker stukkie droewors or chocolate Or is it just monkeys that attack people for scavengable food?
  9. won't the cul-de-sac at the bottom of that hill slow him down in turning around?
  10. No need to imagine, since that's what it used to be. I had several different camps in the SBR reserve area and adjacent kareekloof when I was a toddler.
  11. just, yes
  12. Just sharing this article on a study of "dehumanised cyclists". I think it's something most people on a bicycle between cars know and experience, but this just puts it in words: https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=141968
  13. Thank you all for the insight, Shaper, lechatnoir, SeaBee, Reme
  14. Shaper posted an interesting article on running at or below aerobic threshold while training for peak gains - a link to the post: https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/153222-cyclists-with-a-running-problem/?p=3478916 What I'm wondering, is without training daily, which I suppose could work with zone 2 training etc, but how do you reach 900/1200 weekly vitality points when most exercises will be awarding 100 points, perhaps 200 for longer exercises if even. Only solution I can think of is to still squeeze in some 80% hr exercises for both points and... conditioning, I guess. What do you all think? Starting to sound to me like Vitality just want people to exercise hard and save them some money in sickness and what else, not encourage people to be smart athletes? I personally only joined vitality for the flights and gear discounts really - never thought for a second that they'd know what performance training really entails.
  15. okay that messes with things a huge bit haha
  16. Yea, I forgot the 15/25% is based on the R4000. My point remains all the same, spend the R425 and you can increase your cash backs to R400 + any extras for a year.
  17. For what it is worth, you can do the fitness assessment for R425 and get another 10% off, which should be ~R730, saving you an extra 330, but costing you time and investment. Where did you get the R600 from? 15% of R7300 is ~R1100 also, thought it was worth mentioning, 920xt's still seem to sell well 2nd hand for R2000, so picking up one "new" with 90 day warranty sounds like a better venture. If the 920xt packs up in a year, mabe you get offered a 935 then at a rate still lower or near the vitality discounted 935
  18. I didn't bother checking the toilets or whether there was any water, sorry
  19. I went cycling there Friday with the road bike for the first time. It was amazing as always. I saw less animals, more baboons and no snakes at all. Only negative thing was the picnic goers and their littering - while municipal workers were behind them cleaning the area.
  20. My last parcels from 2018 till recent that went through Aramex has been pathetically awfully slow and they have absolutely no customer service outside of social media rants. They're so bad, they're nearly on par with SA PO averages. Aramex is dead to me. No... Amazon can use whoever they like to deliver parcels - I've had DHL, RAM, rubbish Aramex and another one I cant remember. I've also ordered motorbike parts once with UPS but it was handed over to SA PO here, so never again.
  21. First bolded paragraph gave a lot of insight, thank you 2nd bolded part reminded me about the discussion of the faucet splitter and the cost being high as well. Bottles seem indeed like the much lesser evil of the lot!
  22. Doesn't the problem lie with bottels/sachets/whatever get littered instead of chucked into dustbins? Only workable solution I can think of is "bring your own bottle/cup". If cups and bottles then get littered, its at the expense of the littering runners and not so detrimental to the image of sponsors. I don't have a lot of running events under the belt, but have experienced the littering nonetheless.
  23. didn't know that! Seaweed sachets? sounds fascinating... time for some reading!
  24. What about those 100% consumable water globules? Is the tech still too new to be incorporated into these large scale events?
  25. You sound like a teenager with a limited emotional range with all that exaggerated laughing. 4 days later and you still care enough to cry about it. Also, you should make an optometrist appointment, you're literally seeing double. Oh wait it just hit me, you also don't know how a multiquote button works - no wonder you were triggered into oblivion. I'm still happy you also had a good weekend of running or riding. Take this as a lesson to practicing impartiality
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