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  1. Whoever starts it, should chat to MongooseMan and add those Start Group/Responses links to the first post
  2. If I'm not mistaken: CTCT2024: Early PPA - R755, PPA later R795. CTCT2025: Early PPA (what I paid on Tue) - R795; general early - R850
  3. Also keep in mind that the organisers need to plan for up to 53000-ish bottles/tins if every entrant actually rides, finishes and takes a coke and water each. Else they might run out, and people are (justifiably) going to much more unhappy about getting none, than about not getting double because they chose not to stop and take on the route.
  4. It is available, but not if you search for your name. From the main CTCT results, filter until you find your name (on a phone, you may have to change to landscape view), then you can see Batch Pos
  5. Those caught out a few in the front part of @, us stragglers 50m off the back rode past a few riders on the ground. Chappies was... interesting? Headwind, tailwind, headwind, tailwind as we wound our way up.
  6. HdB

    Dopers suck

    The event organisers would surely have the names of all the riders who entered, so "random tests" could be organised for the riders who dropped out?
  7. In 2022, there were 207 finishers from @, so not exactly small then either. But well over 300 starting? Everything up to splitting on Edinburgh will be chaos if you aren't near the front. I see a few names in there that I recognise that are definitely way faster than me, as in SA Champs podiums in my age category. I felt great at the Herald, but not THAT good... don't think I'll be able to get near the front if I tried. My cold just got relegated in terms of things to stress over for the weekend.
  8. I assume we'll get an SMS again with our numbers and start time, and we'll show them this
  9. Both days' events ran pretty smoothly last year, if you exclude one marshal on the 85km being a bit late to their post. Seems like the road event is back this year, so I've entered for day 1's 85km MTB and day 2's 100km road.
  10. My wife used it to track me and my dad, it just used the timing mats along the route, no predictive magic. I think it occasionally missed a mat, but not too bad. The app hasn't worked properly in a few years though.
  11. They are in %, starting at 6:05 in Fish Hoek, and the u/17 boys at 6:00 from there as well.
  12. Yes, @ seems to be just age, as I'm "lucky" enough to start there, and I don't hold a racing license. At the weekend's Herald, I rode in the Open Seeded, instead of the racing vet batches.
  13. It is quite funny how many riders in the second 1A group (because they also missed the split on Smits and refuse to work at all to help me close a 30m gap) suddenly turn into Nacer Bouhani at about 107km, for that all important 652nd place and barely scraping under 3h, or worse causing a huge pileup within sight of the line. My fastest CTCTs have all been from 1B to 1D, and least enjoyable were in 1A and @ ChrisF's "start later" suggestion sounds tempting, though for some strange reason my dad doesn't seem that keen on me falling back to his group (usually around 2A) and helping him to a good time 🤦‍♂️🤣
  14. I'm hoping we can drive down on Thursday, then I can go for a short ride on Friday morning before going to the Expo, ideally with a friend that lives nearby-ish. The people we stay with every year have moved, so going to have to check for safe routes.
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