gremlin

Could see this was a tougher race as I usualy do 2:00 to 2:15 in races.

My time was 3:45:33 198 position on the 45km.

I see lot lot of people say never again, but they will mostprobably be back next time to try and fitter and better than the previous time.

Does anyone know who did the photos at this event?

Maybe I'll be doing this one this year as well. Like this Rough and tough stuff. "Real Mountain biking"

The roadies where there, that was the ones that stoped and pushed when they saw a few rocks and technical bits. Eventuly passed all of them.

This was my first Magalies Monster race I did, did the 45km. Loved it. When I passed all the water tables where stocked with iche cold drinks. The only problem I had was when going out of Utopia there was no proper signs to actualy go through the fence, we went further up and had to turn back to climb through the fence. The rest was all tough but brilliant, Had to wait an hour and a half for the wife to finish. gremlin2009-05-31 11:42:46

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As they said before also rather than a Goodie Bag give us a worsroll and a beer when you finish. With some races in the MTN series we got a pie and a drink.

I had my Silverback for about a year and a half, Lots of races riding hard, a friend is now using it and still going. Good quality you won't regret it.

I liked the Maratua Race. You got A T-Shirt, bottle of wine and a medal.

MMMMMMM BEEEEEER. Also cant, would like to do the Induna but doing za race in Swaziland the week before.

I had a entry level Silverback Reno to get started off with, had this for 1,5 years. Very good bikes, still have original Deraluers ect on it, gave it to a friend. Now got a Specialized bike for R17500. One can feel the difference in riding comfort. Was worth the change.

If you still got the plastick cover that clips between the Casette and spokes, have a look at this and maybe remove. I had this before as soon as you start to free wheel that the chain goes slack, it was the plastick pushing against the cassette that caused this. After I removed this it was 100%.

Sound good, but also in a few weeks as we are also doing the Magalies Monster and then Swaziland.

I also have the Mule. Great bag with more than enough space.

Using gel on a training ride shows taht they should be doing more training in the first place. Performance enhancers are to enhance performance (ie during races)' date=' training is to build muscles. If you take gels on a training ride you are either too rich or to lazy to train properly. Real food and coffee are used during training. (and they taste better as well).[/quote'] Agreed, gel is for races not training. I only use gel in a hard race not in all of them.

Great race, also had a beer afterwards. Only the first 300 got free beers. At least there was a few changes on the course with river crossings and a cool almost mud pit before the end, that was a briliant idea. We also made a weekend of this one.

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I listen to MP3 while training but not in races. But I also set it to a volume where I'm still aware of everything around me. I usualy hear someonse tyres before they get to close. In in races I'd be farr gone out of the pack by then.

Dam Webwasher.