TheJ

Yeah so I *was* training for the Addo 100 Miler that is 36 days away. 2 weekends ago we're camping at Tsitsikamma - I decide to go try see how fast I can get to the Waterfall and back, so I nail it. The Otter is a coastal trail so very rocky. About half a kilo before the waterfall, I violently roll my LEFT ankle on slanted rocks, and I mean badly. I sit there for a few minutes, pain, but manage to get up and "walk it off". Turn around back to camp, or soldier on? I didn't turn around. Got to waterfall, took a quick photo, and started the run back. Was actually able to run ok, hopping from rock to rock where needed but just a bit more cautious this time because the ankle wasn't feeling lekker. When the route became more open near the end I could nail it, even managed to get a time of 57 minutes I think, Strava Top 10, chuffed. If not for the ankle it might have been 5 minutes or so faster. Walk back to camp, ankle a bit sore, but all good. Swam a few times during the day and the cold temps helped the ankle. That afternoon my 3 year old daughter INSISTS on "trappies klim", she wants to go walk the 1mb Loerie trail, so off I have to go. Walking semi ok. I even carry her down the steep and high stairs on the other side, so its my body weight plus her 25kg. As we exit onto the tar road, the coldness of the swimming has worn off and the ankle is hurting. Walking back to camp with her and my dad, each step gets more and more painful. I eventually can't put any weight on the ankle. My dad and my daughter go up ahead to fetch the car to come pick me up. Get back to camp, PAIN. Wife loads me into the car, and we drive through to MediClinic Plett. Long story short, I walk out of there with a leg in a plastercast, on crutches. Doctor can't really dx anything, so just wraps it up till we're back in PE. Few days later we're back in PE, and I'm sitting in the ortho's office. Longer story short, xrays looked like possible ligament OFF plus ankle fracture. "Better" doctor looks at images, no fracture and partial tear of one ligament with another overstretched. 2 weeks moonboot non weight baring, 2 weeks without boot, light weight baring. Foot night and blue from blood pooling on the outside. Even got bruising halfway up my leg for some reason, think I did a number on the entire lower leg. Today is moonboot week 1 done. Now appreciate this. On this past Sunday, I'm crutching around the house as I have to, you put your crutches down infront of you, and you swing your legs through, "landing" on your good leg, then repeat. There was a cushion or a heap of towels on the floor as I was trying to crutch past, so I had to narrow my crutch's position to make it past. On the "swing through" of the legs, I catch my RIGHT foot's pinky toe on the crutch, bending it 90 degrees away from the foot to the side, bang. Broken. Admittedly, I haven't had a doctor look at the toe, but I Googled plenty and it looks exactly like every other broken toe images I could find. Swollen, a bit red with lots of blue and purple. And DO NOT try to touch it. So now I got a left leg in a moon boot, and a right foot with a 99% probability broken toe. And Addo is 36 days away. Addo will be 2 weeks away by the time I'm supposed to be able to walk normal again. I am not withdrawing.

If that Pulse 25 rims came in 32 hole options, I'd be all over it - if the rims were available loose. It would be perfect for an upcoming wheelbuild I have to do. Old school American Classic hubs stripped out of unused 26er wheels with Boost conversion axles sourced from EVOBikes, probably DT Swiss Revolution spokes... and the jury is still out on the rims. These would have been ideal, but would have had to be 32 hole to match the hubs. The AMP30 is also nice, but probably a tiny bit too heavy for me. Granted, I don't know what any of these rims weigh. Lyne, what are your rim weights?

I asked them that same question yesterday. Answer was a preliminary no for now.

I rolled my left ankle last Saturday while running The Otter Trail in Tsitsikamma. I'm 41 days away from the 100 miler that I was training for, now my left leg is in a moonboot with a torn ligament, with me walking with crutches. So today, crutching along barefoot, I manage to catch my right pinky toe on the crutch as I swing the "good" leg through to walk. Highly suspect I broke the toe, that entire front part of my foot is very sore. How am I supposed to walk now? My good foot is now also fooked. FML.

Sportsmans Warehouse sells an in house brand tubeless tape for R30 for 5 meters. Cheaper than Gorilla tape. Haven't tried it but looks as if it will be brilliant. Thinner than Gorilla tape so will be lighter as well.

So basically after every 2nd rear shock service... you've spend as much as a new shock costs? I'm too poor for this sport.

Sorry what did Braan Rood say?

So precious

I tried setting up campaigns for friends before and the general problem was that they can't/don't want to set up funds for non-USA based people. Maybe it has changed in the meantime.

R1460 seemed like such an arb amount so I have rounded it up to R2000 for you. Hope it helps the parents a little bit.

Did I miss the banking details? If financial help is welcomed we need where to send it to.

Why does CSA even exist again?

A fred I just posted that you guys might want to follow... https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/169269-identify-these-pills/

That was me this morning. Arrived back home at 5:30-ish. Wife says she never even heard me leave.

Unfortunatelly I couldn't finish the Addo 100 Miler this year (161km). I started suffering from nausea very early on, from say 20km in. This was on the Friday and it was already pretty warm. The night went ok and I hoped that like last year when the sun comes up I'll be a new man and nail it to the finish. Nausea never went away and had to stop every few kilos for dry heave and empty my stomach a bit. I eventually arrived at checkpoint 11 @ 96km around 11am on Saturday, dehydrated and still naar, the temperatures now past 40 degrees. I left there 30 minutes later after a shoe change and some sunblock. Next up was arguably one of the hardest parts of the course, hectic hills in hectic heat. At 102.6km, my body was done. I was fit enough and strong enough, but the conditions had me at the wrong time of the day at the wrong spot on the route. I sat down, as I had done plenty times in the previous 80km or so. 15 minutes later I heard a quad coming down the hill from the next checkpoint. It was the medic. He highly suggested I call it quits. I protested, but they had final say. 20 minutes later, at the next checkpoint, it took 3 towels dipped in ice-water to drop my temperature. I'll admit, I shed a few tears. Quitting isn't me. As as sat at the checkpoint the marshals started packing up camp. They had to wear gloves as the poles and the canvas was extremely hot. I later heard that on the hill where the medic called my race, temperatures of 50 degrees were measured. It was out of this world hot. I finished the 100 Miler last year, and I will again next year.

Everything else. Apart from the brand.

The crankset looks k@k on that bike, imho.

Jis... to overcome all that. What a man.

How does this guy manage to finance this lifestyle?

Didn't know they were divorced. Actually just Googled now and found the same article.

@antonj... I've been wondering the same thing the last week or two...

LEGUND.

Just wish they'd stop with the cheezy catch-phrases on their bikes.

One of those screw on food/spares boxes they have on the Momsen site.

Feeling for TW... I think. Now partnered with PS (caught for juice) and big mate of RC (If I'm correct?) who happened to travel to a world cup with syringes and is now sanctioned (?)