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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.

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 🤦‍♂️🤣

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.

Done with the Versus 500, at least unofficially. We'll see if the trainer rides count. I'm definitely looking forward to more normal weeks 🤣

I'm not sure either, but I saw this morning that the FAQ doesn't specify virtual activities. "For cycling, road cycling, mountain biking, and e-biking all count." I will keep adding the "Versus Back to Base" text. Still counts for fitness, if not free* socks 😁

I think I didn't read the Versus challenge description properly, and my virtual rides probably don't count... I will probably get around half way with outdoor rides.

185km left, by far most done on the trainer. Should get a good chunk of the remainder on the MTB tomorrow and Friday, but the weather for the weekend looks wet, so TrainerRoad and Indievelo will have to do.

What a pity! I quite enjoyed not watching Marriott and Cecil Nurse ads at the worst possible times...

I tried Indievelo this morning, just a quick ride with a bot group. It seems quite good so far, should be interesting to see how events etc work, for the inevitable bad weather days where I don't feel like yet another VO2 workout on Trainerroad.

Mine is similar, and we are three people using it. With the new pricing structure, it would nearly triple the yearly cost, so I am not touching anything on the subscription screen until I have no choice.

Maybe they don't feel like maintaining the app anymore. Try the web app? https://www.cyclingsa-events.co.za/app_v2

You put the app on your phone, and just show them the digi-card or whatever. Had to do it this weekend, when they wanted me to pay a day license despite mine being active until Jan next year.

Admittedly my memory is terrible at the best of times, but I've also done a few and I don't remember this. Wouldn't we have had to go over Chappies (which was closed) but skip Suikerbossie to get to to Constantia nek? Edit: Sounds interesting though, some day I should take a few days extra and explore a bit.

Cancelling is definitely the last thing the Lions clubs would have wanted. Have to wonder though, with this kind of thing seemingly becoming a more regular occurrence, that disaster management can simply say NOPE two days before the event the organiser has been preparing for for months, and damage to reputation because (some) vocal participants blame the organiser and questioning their motives, are some organisers simply going to exit the game? Seems pretty thankless, especially in the case of a charity organisation that exists for the purpose of helping others. Edit: No offense meant to anyone, of course. I would have preferred to ride on Sunday as well. But my conversation a week or so ago with one of the Lions members here, didn't exactly give me "skelm" vibes, they are super proud of their event.

Obviously I've never had to deal with the marshals on this, so perhaps I'm missing something. But looks to me that the only thing that would not show is the year and the phone numbers? Compared to the size deemed worthy by the UCI. Would folding that bottom part up and behind the rest, with some extra pins, count as modifying it? Or are the officials that pedantic?

Same, I entered when I renewed my PPA... at the start of April.

I prefer your weather prediction to what YR and accuweather are showing so far. No rain sounds quite nice.

What is your current fitness like, do you think you'd be able to do the 50 miler currently? If yes, then 5 weeks training plus one week recovery might be fine. https://www.princegeorge.co.za/route-info/ Otherwise, ask them if you can switch to the 50miler?

In terms of cycling nutrition, these videos are also quite informative:

We've been using the Biogen multivitamin for a while, helps for my wife's joints. Not every day, but when her fingers start getting sore. I've also been taking some of the Enduren Cramp stuff, before or after hard training sessions depending on how I feel. It has magnesium, potassium and iron, so it (or something similar) might help for your symptoms - I'm not sure how its price compares as I just add it to my order to get free shipping.

Crisscrossing the country 6 times in 5 weeks does not seem worth a pat on the back, even if you have deep pockets...

From what the lady at the till told my wife on Saturday, yes. So you could use the Nike discount on some running shoes already on discount, which I wish I had known 5 minutes earlier

They discontinued it last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rouvy/comments/sze36e/rouvy_statement_on_the_discontinued_editor/ The statement does mention something about creating it from the Activity Detail page, but my outside rides do not sync to Rouvy so I cannot check.

I checked accommodation the other day (via Discovery Vitality mind you, so who knows if it is 100% up to date), and none were available in Uniondale. So we will probably decide closer to the time if we drive through on the morning, or do the tent on the showgrounds thing.