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Hmmm... really tempting for once.... The early start means making it back to the start should be ok, bar mechanical or crap weather. Would be inconvenient for my folks to come pick me up another few hours after my dad has finished though; alternatively ride another 40km home, after 221km and 2000m of climbing 🤣 Sjoe!

Similar situation. Accommodation is sorted, slightly-used compact crankset purchased and will be fitted post CTCT (I'd rather have it and not need it, come Mineshaft). Healthy mix of looking forward and fear, but it should be interesting at least.

Flying cardboard bins and toppled portaloos at the start area, ala 2009 = windy (or with the new rules, probably cancelled race)

Hopefully less windy than the Herald 🤞

Not sure what my FTP was at the time. But from 1B, on Edinburgh in 2020 I averaged about 128% of my current FTP, and according to Strava a PR on that segment. Doubt I can hold that for over four minutes currently.

Maybe not guilty, but I find myself rather playing something that I can pick up, play for a bit, not play for a week or two, and come back and jump in where I left off. Between work, training, family time and keeping the garden from becoming a jungle, I have little willpower left to try and remember how to craft the all-powerful-knapsack-of-DOOM! or whatever.

A while ago there was a fuss about doping in SA schools - one of the meds was also a prescription-only cancer-related drug, my mom was taking it a few years earlier. THe kids were using it to counteract the side-effects of one of the many other things they were doping with.

There have been a few.... conveniently after the statute of limitations of course

I could very likely have done something wrong, but when you go to generate the voucher in the app, I had to choose between the three options - Sports gear and equipment, Fitness Device, or Nike Performance Gear, then once you confirm your selection it gives you a normal voucher code to enter on the site.

Just used one of the holiday R250 Sportsmans vouchers, the 25% upfront Sports Gear discount and all my Discovery Miles to buy my mom a Garmin 45S; much easier than I thought it would be Now to hope I can still use the Fitness Device reward next month on a similar watch for my dad. Their Tomtoms are basically falling apart at this point.

You still have three weeks worth of VO2Max hill repeats to go Plus working on staying low for longer, so you arrive at the hills slightly fresher.

Thanks, you too! First &'s last year was faster than the first @'s, and both only about 4min slower than the first 1A's. Kliphard is an understatement! Next week's Herald should show just how screwed I'll be

Starting in @ Best start time ever, and all I had to do was have a birthday... Unfortunately current fitness does not match this, so I will probably see LWB's tandem soon enough... 😅

Or for those of us that missed it by a smidge, an early do-over (or possibly reminder to train more over Dec... again)

For me the Philips 1215s work well enough. I only use them while riding in the indoor trainer, so since they will inevitably die thanks to sweat I don't feel like spending more to have ANC etc etc etc. Only fall out when I knock them with the towel, but don't know how they'll hold or rougher terrain.

Also, didn't they recently say your points goal will start going up from 600 soon? Which would make it even more difficult to wangle this team play. Can't find the mail now, so perhaps I'm mistaken

The Race of Truth about how your teammates really feel about each other?

At least now that most age groups can get vaccinated, it should be slightly less of a problem this year. We should be able to get our booster by end Feb (technically wifey could have gone earlier according to Discovery, being immunocompromised, but easier to be on the same schedule), so I should be good to go by Arrghust weekend.

Or those old bike park or start card stickers that took that long to remove...

Pirelli Cinturato tyres on a bit of a special (in theory at least, haven't checked against Evobikes etc) on Takealot, as long as you use the app.

2021 my wife and I both paid for Zwift. Plus I have Rouvy Premium, as the family thing means three people can use it (me, wife, my dad). Now I really only use Trainerroad, and my wife and dad use Rouvy; really should just cancel my Zwift...

We did it for a while. Ideally the bikes should have the same speed cassettes, and both be Quick-Release or Thru-Axle. If one is QR and the other thru-axle, it is a pain to change the adapters every time. Didn't take long on ours (Saris H2), but tedious to do every time and adds something that can get damaged. Most of the trainers are compatible with 9-11speed Shimano/SRAM. @Chingy182 - wouldn't it be an option to just upgrade your wife's bike to 11-speed as well, as a third option?

Easy 32km coffee ride this morning to get past 500km with outside rides Now to do absolutely nothing for a few days!

A few thousand km's down on both 2019 and 2020.

Done as well. And only 99km left over two days, to make it 500 outside Side note: either my fitness has made a huge leap, or this Enduren works very well for me - I don't think I've ever felt so good at the end of a 130, nevermind after the same distance yesterday.