What a gorgeous day, beautiful route. Helleva climb up Koringberg. I got 1300m ascent total. Obviously needed the physio this week, battled with back and neck pain for 45km, last 20km not too bad (i finally overtook people haha). Route marking i give a 6/10 for, not always easy and some people took wrong turns (i decided since there was no marker to go straight through the field - turned out to be correct). Did 3h50. Racetec results not up yet boo. On a separate note, an old Afrikaans guy on a blue Giant and in a Namakwa jersey, tossed his gel wrapper into the veld. I confronted him (it went over a fence else I would have told the bastard to pick it up). He had a temp number 66. Tried to report him to the PPA after the race but they just were not interested (the fatsos sitting the bus at the finish line). Told me to report him to their colleagues at the top, but they had packed up already. Quite annoyed by this, he should be banned from joining PPA. Also thanks PPA for bringing my road number, as kindly requested by phone yesterday (not - useless *******). Also, ambulance had no Savlon or detol. Seems a tad strange as one would think that is what you need at an MTB race. thanks to Nitrodon (fourth place dude you machine) for organising me a lift with Iteachcoffee! Hubbers rock! Copperhead you lurker, if you are reading this I missed you (you know, seeing you at the start and riding into the distance).
