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    Landjaeger for the win! But biltong, nuts, fruit and banana bread also work...
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    +1
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    its all in the mind, you may have waited too long to get going again... The guy that came fifth at Western States 100, won the Hardrock 100 just a few weeks later...
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    being as strong as Contador in 2010 is not something to be cmpared too... Rather be compared to LA or the Russian winter olympic team
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    This is a valid point, I do agree with it. My personal opinion(and we all know opinions are like areseholes) is that if you have cheated and won money that is fraud and you should be in jail, but ya that is not going to happen. I think someone who is throwing p*** is not really fit to be in a normal society, bit like any radical, no one will actually take them seriously. As for cycling, I think the doping is just on hold till it finds a new direction to move, it is never going to stop, for now I think it is slightly less than previous years but ya lets see about next year.
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    actually a an interesting question... Do you think it is that simple and innocent that sky had a package delivered to a certain rider before a big tour? Do you think it s that simple and innocent that they require TUE's? Do you think it is that simple and innocent that the testing system is not correct for sulbutamol and it was 100% innocent having double the allowed volume? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Once you have watched Icarus it is hard to believe that any single rider in that race is not pushing the legal and ethical boundary somewhere...
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    I have brought the data in to Power BI, still building the dashboards though https://www.kasperonbi.com/building-the-power-bi-strava-data-connector/
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    give Oz at X-Factor Sport a call... zero84 eight 51 7656 - Website: www.xfactorsport.co.za - Mail: oz@xfactorsport.co.za
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    Or you can upload to strava, link your strava to powerBI and create your own mega stats center for your training data... #datanerdfordays
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    there are a few killers in Swaziland, he had 970m in like 15km up to Mhlambanyatsi. Also if you live in Northcliff you learn to stitch road sections together and you can make hills worse than senior/hearn. There are steeper shorter climbs
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    Care to expand?
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    Less than 3% error, that is better then your car odometer. better get on a forum and complain about that.
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    No weather does not affect GPS, a solid layer of water on the antennae will weaken the signal, and if it is super cold the battery may not power the antennae properly giving weak readings but really GPS signal itself is not affected. Also worth noting is that GPS is no longer just GPS, there is A-GPS, Glonass Galileo and more to come... This is purely dependent on the accuracy setting you have chosen, If your device is recording position every second then this is not an issue, if you have it saving battery reading every 5 mins then it is an issue. Yes this is a limitation, but not a huge one and with better coverage it is less of an issue.
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    tell someone to go sit on the naughty step and rethink their actions... GPS reads an XY and (slightly less accurate) Z coordinate, hence fancy watches use barometers or do post processing to a digital elevation model to gain a more accurate Z coordinate for the route.
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    The HARDROCK 100 is a mountain run that passes through some of the most beautiful and rugged mountains in the world. The course is closed. That means that runners are required to follow the specified route. Four legs, linking the Lake City, Ouray, Telluride, and Silverton areas. The finish is in Silverton, the same location as the start. The course is 100 miles long, has a cumulative vertical gain of 33,050 feet of climb and 33,050 feet of descent for a total elevation change of 66,100 feet, and takes place at an average elevation of about 11,000 feet. The high point is 14,048 feet. The altitude range of this run (7,700 to 14,000+ feet) takes the runner through several climate zones. At the lower altitude, forests of aspen, pine, and spruce are common. Timberline is locally at about 11,800 feet, though this can vary greatly. Above timberline is alpine tundra and low vegetation interspersed with krummholz (low, stunted spruce, fir, and willow).
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    lets be real, a big positive with trail running is not dealing with this s*** no stupid qualifiers and having to join a 'club' to compete in an individual sport. I will far rather keep paying more expensive trail run entries than have to pay 'licence fees' per event. Also did you guys see there was a Saffa who completed Hardrock 100. Huge props, that course is absolutely ridiculous. Definitely one for the bucket list.
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    Not going to help ASA, especially as most agree with her, and picking a legal battle with an advocate is not clever
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    I almost cracked a rib laughing so hard last weekend, a MAMIL e-bike rider(no older than 45) pulls into the carpark off the spruit and announces at the top of his voice: "40km, f** that is far, I am buggered, its time for a well deserved beer..." Promptly starts loading his S-Works turbo Levo onto the bike rack. Now 40km on the spruit is not taxing and I have ridden a Turbo levo it is fast and easy to ride, I nearly used it to lead out a 40km mtb race instead of using my Honda 250, that's how good it is. If you are on an e-bike you are welcome to ride all trails in my opinion, but you lose all traction to complain about being tired...
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    new pain cave door handle?
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    suggestions for non gps odometers for AR? needs to be tough and accurate?
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    For 100 milers and other runs listed there are very different ways to approach them. Reunion and Skyrun are steep with big elevation gain, skyrun also has no real paths often so you want to be strong not fast and a good power hike is worth 10x as much as being able to tick off sub 4:30kms all day. UTCT and Karkloof are more running events so speed work will do better for that and general running. Karkloof you can train on road for 95% of the training. I do speed work once a week, the rest i just distance and elevation hunting usually. If there is a 5-10km night run then that becomes my speed work and the goal is to start at a stupid pace and try go faster from there. Strength work is a separate day, walking stair repeats with a 25kg sand bag, running stair repeats and then the usual leg day workouts that most do. Also take time to do a lot of balance strength and core work, bosu squats and pistol squats etc. All my other runs at the moment usually are just elevation hunting.
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    I know of Millwrights walking away with 35k a month aged 27, a degree is only as good as the work ethic you have to back it up. I would rather my kid does a trade and can work hard than studies a BA in something that will lead to no work at all. As for bicycle mechanics, I always maintain work is not called love it is called work, so have a job you enjoy but keep it separate to your love, because you will soon realize that the weekends and events you want to cycle you will be working because everyone else is cycling and needs the mechanic...
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    Nice to have team mates based in the proper mountains hey Good luck with the training.... Cyanosis 24hour, Wolkberg trail Run, Full Moon Drakensberg. Hopefully be putting in an entry for Itera 2019 end of Oct which will limit racing budget for a bit.
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    Let me rephrase it then, I would far rather catch a flight to Bloem, jump on a mtb there and dirt road tour straight through Lesotho or go Aliwal-Lady Grey-Rhodes-Reverse R2R route through to pmb than do the route we did again...
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    Have done it before We started in Vanderbijl- R57 from there to past Kestell Then R712 East till just past Sterkfontein Dam. From there R74 down Oliviershoek(all good tar now) until the R74 crosses the N3 where you jump on the R103 all the way to PMB. We stopped half way to run from Royal Natal up to Mount Aux Sources and back, which is a good ad on/ detour option. We over nighted at Amphitheater backpackers My 2c, do it once, never again, boring AF. The freestate is not flat, false flats for day.
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