Boesman Benson

Nay he's a youngster !

Theo just to confirm: He wants partner for Masters and not Grand Masters?

Happy for the Darren and Waylon. Thanks USN!

Thanks for the graph. Quite a steep rise in CTL (about 7 points/week) since mid Sept. 'The taper looks good. TSB coming back nicely. You will be strong. Go and enjoy.

@ Sasquatch: Do you/your coach call this taper? I will arrive - broken in pieces - at a race if I taper like this. What does you normal training look like? For how long do you sustain this sort of load? Are you riding Elite? Impressive.

DomP - Just for interest sake. What sort of intensity/pace did you ride/race?

A colleague just had one of these over lunch. He was telling me about how nice this new product tastes and that I should try one. Then we read the label. 'Clever' Marketing: It comes in a 500ml bottle. It claims to be formulated to hydrate you better than water. It has a special “Lower in Sugar – Healthier choice” label on it. This must be good for you!!! 120mg Sodium per serving (250ml), Some other electrolytes, 17g Sugar per serving (250ml), 0g fat, 0g Protein. There is actually 34g Sugar in a bottle. They have to “hide” the sugar by adding 240mg of Sodium - otherwise no one would drink it. Would you eat six teaspoons of sugar on top of your regular lunch or dinner?

Whatever saddle you end up getting. Don't make weight a primary requirement. Comfort is way more important - if you do longer rides. I have never heard anyone complain that their saddle was too heavy after a long ride.......

No I am too small to be Jason ;-). We were riding on our own. We tried to get a patrol car - "but no this is not our area, try Brooklyn ehh no maybe Sunnyside" I wouldn't let my girls ride there alone.

We were there on Sunday around 11am. Two "I don't know what to call them" were hiding/ambushing in the grass next to the tar road. (About at the first parking area when you come up from the cattle grid). They ran into the veld up to the fort side when we confronted them. Later they escaped accross the road down to fountains side. Think they had stolen good in the plastic bags they carried.

Dave - Vitality hammers me on BMI every year. I am 1.7m, 75kg which puts me above 25 BMI. They hurt my feelings so badly everytime they tell me that I am OBESE ;-) But my %bodyfat is <10%.

Tracy I have good news for you. At a BMI of 20, you are probably around your ideal weight (55kg/165cm). To drop to 18.5 you will have to make some more sacrifices (more strict with diet than what you have been) which are likely to have negative impact on your long term health. Only you will know if loosing 2kg will be worth the additional sacrifices. Keep eating healthy and start training again and do those events you want to do.

About that diet-Castle you were asking about: 2g Carbs of which 1.8g Suger per 340ml bottle. 421kJoules per bottle. I think you may drink it if you feel like having a beer. I'll just have a Milk Stout on a Saturday evening ;-)).

If she cannot do the R10k5, save yourself R4k from your R7k5 and buy a second hand Tacx Flow. No need for the Computer Game interface on a IDT. Flow might not be acurate, but it is repeatable.

No - I think Dale is saying that you must ride very easy for longer. 75km under 3h is likely to be way too fast - especially if you are on a MTB. Your mother ran very well at Comrades on LCHF because she spent the majority of the run at a low to moderate hr (sub threshold intensity). That is ideal for someone on LCHF. The dynamics of riding - rather 'racing' a bicycle is much more glycolitic. (Requires glycogen {carbs} for those climbs where we ride at or above threshold just to make it to the top or to try and stick with the bunch)