mecheng89

Entered. Perhaps A batch this year!

First ever entry secured!

My thoughts on the race (organization) as a whole - Stage 1 - Easily found the tog bag vehicles. Great idea. Start area was big enough. Parking for vehicles seemed sufficient. The route proved to be challenging at times, with the short, sharp climbs. Road surface going down the BEEG hill was truly terrifying, clocking 80km/h+, smelling tyres and brakes. Very thankful that no one crashed. Little uphill finish could be punishing if you weren't aware. First pitstop (school) - lots of place to relax. Food looked like "koshuis" food. Only managed to grab a muffin, queues were plenty long. Ablution facilities were adequate. Stage 2 - Spitskop was a total killer! Have to back just to tackle that SOB again! I found this stage the most difficult. Second pitstop - ASG website said that the second pitstop would be at the primary school, but ended up at the country club? Neagtive mark for ASG there. Venue was too small. Food was ok. Traffic getting out of the venue was a nightmare. They should really not use the SCC again. Stage 3 - Long Tom. 8-10% gradient, approx 8km long. If you have a strong head going into the hill, you'll make it to the top. It remains a solid challenge nonetheless. My thoughts on my race - Stage 1 - Solid. Managed to finish in the second bunch. Stage 2 - Spitskop broke me. Legs felt like jelly at the end of the stage. Most difficult stage (and interestingly, the stage with the most elevation gain and lowerest elevation loss). Stage 3 - The crowd next to the road (Long Tom) motivating the cyclists was a great touch. Little climb back to the stadium is a nice killer. Overall, another great race by ASG. This is now the second race this year presented by ASG that I highly commend.

Max achieved - 1200. 600 for Jock this weekend. 600 to go.

Looks like a nippy start, but it should warm up nicely near the end of stage 1. http://www.accuweather.com/en/za/nelspruit/299527/morning-weather-forecast/299527?day=5

Still on 1100 points for this week.. A grand total of 100 points for a 3+ hour ride. Avg HR was below 70% of max though.. I feel genuinely robbed!

Thanks!

1100 points.. 100 away from MAX!

Seedings are out. AL. First time attempting the race. Eek!

I've never had issues with rides/runs/gym WO not uploading. The reason they take more than 1 day (mostly 2 days) is because Vitality is waiting for you to update perhaps something else that happened in that same 24 hours. If you walk say 10.000 steps, you get 100 points. For some reason you upload these steps (I have a FR15), so it should immediately reward you with 100 points? If you realize, o shucks, I still have a 10k night race tonight, you know this will guarantee you 300 points. Vitality will award you with this 300 points 48 hours after the upload time and date. You know what you've done in the week, you know what you are owed. If the entire amount does not reflect on Friday at 23:59:59, don't fret. The systems gives you 'til the Wednesday after the refreshed VP goal to upload these activities. Vitality have created a monster, but it's getting us active! That is what the aim is. Healthy body, healthy mind!

1000 points. "New" IDT. > 154 bpm. Let's see how this goes!

Elite fitness assessment gives you 15000 points. Yes, you pay in R1500, but you get it all back.

parkrun points will always reflect on Wednesday. You will always be awarded 300 points regardless of your speed or HR. An invaluable 300 for someone who needs to gather 900 this week.

Dude.. Can someone say 180 degrees?

900 points again this week.

They reset you "current" weeks goal on Friday midnight. Even though you might've achieved your points, your status might still show "Pending". It does that until the Wednesday, when you get awarded (or not). So there are a few lee-way days, but it doesn't mean you can squeeze activities in there for the week prior.

900 for me this week. Time to dig out the Forerunner..

So who's started training for this one? Any accurate GPX files anywhere? Doing my first one. Are they basing the seeding on ASG or PPA?

High price IMO.

Did the MTB in 2014 and 2015. Had a very bad experience with the MTB in 2015, so this year I decided to tackle the 12km trail run. What a good track. Well done, keep up the good work. Will be back every year if it's that good!

My thoughts on the (organization of) the race - The Maluti Double 90 was a well organized race. The starting spot (President's square) was picturesque and the starting procedures were up to scratch. The start just as we head out of the town though was a bit of a mess, with other cyclists coming into the opposite lane, and with that steep downhill, picking up speed is very easy. The "pit stop" was a mad rush. Found our car easily, did our prep for the final 75km or so. Congrats on picking Golden Gate to test us after 130km odd . Traffic through GG was a bit unexpected, cars thinking they are allowed to race too. And once again, some cyclists littered leaving their empty goo packets laying all over. The "little" hill up to the finish was the final tester, and then the rich reward of a patch instead of a medal, unique in this time of road racing. Well done PPA, good inaugural event. Would like to come back next year! My thoughts on my race - 0-70km - coping, cross wind was a 70km- pit stop - starting to feel the exhaustion, hit a soft wall Pit stop - GG - fell off, solo in wind GG start - GG finish - F&kkit! SBR 1000x? GG finish - Clarens - Up..down..up..down..more ups? Still not finished? Ok, how about now, pretty please? Blank.. beer in hand, finished! Getting ill 2 weeks prior did not help (I believe). Know where my training is lacking now. Next - Jock Classique!

120.1km, over 5hrs in the saddle, suffer score > 150.. 300 Vitality points!

SEEYAL8R, that'll be mine

I second that. Life policy BS.

Reached 45000 today, so I'm sorted for 2016! Does anyone know why sometimes if I do a 100+ km ride, it falls under the "120+ min at vigorous" blah blah and not the "100+ km distance"??? Just curious, even though either gives the max points?