Woofie

? <FONT size=2 face="Verdana' date=' Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am not sure? Might be that the finish moved slightly or something like that. <FONT size=2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">? <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" =Msonormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-: EN" lang=EN>Apparently, over the years, out of a total of 165 000 individual Argus entries, 7900 have done one or more sub 3 hour finishes. <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" =Msonormal>? <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" =Msonormal>For 2011, the big question will be: 1.) will it still go over Boy's Drive; and 2.) if the Falsebay road construction gets stuck between KBay and FishH - what road can be taken? Very small chance of another De-tour?!? Hope not. </SPAN> [/quote'] mmmm.... That will really suck. Well if the route is the same as last year and if I wake up and there is any SE blowing. Then I am going to have another "booze cruise" But what if they do work on the false bay road though? That is going to cause havoc. I mean at the rate that they repair roads here, they may as well change the argus to go down the new westcoast IRT lanes down to melkbos and return over our new M5 flyway But really now. If they end up working on the road closer to fish hoek. Think of the route they might have us on then. M3, Steep OuKaap, Fish hoek or over black hill and then onto the the rest of the race. That will be hectic. I will rather have boys drive anyday then.

eerrhmmmm. Well in that case do I get a quadruple bonus as there were two good looking ladies working on me? Oh and a third went to go and get me yet another cup of coke. (Another bonus point?) I was the only person at the massage tent so I got lots of attention. -Some oak was holding my bike all the time -Two chicks working on me -Another one fetching me something cold to drink -When I eventually decided to go and finish the race, they asked if I was sure I could make it. haha. Man, I should stop more It is fun getting looked after. Maybe my aim for the argus next year is going to be very different now Woofie2010-03-16 08:40:46

This post is lank late, but better late than never I suppose. Started in F. Stuck with my group till simonstown. I wasnt enjoying the race at all. A couple of people had gone down around me and the whole race just seemed like a bad memory from last year again. So I decided, stuff it. Im not amped at all. Im not enjoying this. I dont care, there is enough other races in the year, I want to just spend the time going at my own pace and look at the view and shout at the crowds. So I did. I spent the last 60km going on my own. Didnt tail the people coming past me. Stopped many times for as much free coke as I could get down me. (I finished with a full bottle of juice still, haha, needed to pee badly then though.....) When I got through to camps bay I decided since I am on the whole freebie thing, I am going to stop for a massage while I am at it as well. Was really cool. So my official time was a nice and slow 3.58. I was happy that I did that. I was in a good mood at the end and I really enjoyed it. I would have been in a Cr@p mood if I pushed myself hard and had a horrible race and crawled across the line at 3.30. & That would left left me feeling like hanging up the bike.

When it was 108km what was different about the route? I have only ridden the 109 and 110.

Wow. Glad you are all ok now.

Who's stats are these?

? For me it was hard but I did alot better than I thought' date=' the worst I finished was 8min off the leaders on day?2 and the?rest I was like 5 and 6min each day. I dont know where I came today I havent seen the results yet but I rode 15min flat and passed a few guys on the way. So personally overall I did well and I beat some good names along the way overall in GC so now I wait for overall results.[/quote'] Hey well done Colonel! Flip, I have been watching the results and you have done flipping well! Now I am too scared to try and race subvets........

I dont recon Lance could win the argus. He could have however taken the Giro. That is more of his kind of racing. Long distance, multi day, big climbs. He would have so eaten the guys up. We have far better sprinters than him in the argus. If the finish was at the top of suikerbossie or something, then I would say he had a better chance, but unless he gets very lucky with the sprint somehow he definitly wont take it. There is one strategy though that I have been thinking of. If he and a couple of "workers" can break away going up chappies, he and Darrel is obviously much better down the hills after racing overseas. So by the bottom of the hill and going up suiker, they could have a couple of seconds gap. Going up suiker they could open up a few more, but then to keep the peloton from catching you in the last 10km will be very hard. He would obviously love to win it and him having fresh legs on sunday will help, but anyway. I dont think he will make it.

Wow, this is what we have been waiting for. I need to tape the whole thing so that I can watch it when I get home. Does anyone have a TV card on their PC so that they can record it onto there? We will be able to cut snippets out then as well.

Just went and read the article One noticeable enhancement on the bicycle lane is that the surface changes as it approaches intersections from about 20m, then changes again in the area immediately surrounding the intersection. These subtle variations, together with warning and yield signs, provide a clear signal that pedestrians or vehicles may be present in the area, particularly as cyclists could be travelling up to 25km an hour along some stretches. mmmm..... if the south easter is pumping 25km/h is not really true. I have hit 70km/h before with the wind along the west coast road.

Question is. Are you going to be sharing that bike lane with pedastrians as well?

Headhunter. I dont have an extension. I am contracting to Gijima on the 9th floor. Drop me a mail when you are in & we can go for a cycle. I mean a coffee

Well done groot lem. We need people on the board that are from the front, middle and back of the fields so that they can improve the running of events.

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I dont think so. Actually I have heard of people using the FD (but I am not sure how well it will work) There is some SRAM shifter to campag RD compatibility as far as I remember. It has to do with the amount of cable that gets pulled with each shift. There was a very interesting post here some time back which gave the comparisons of what would work.

Me 2! We going to have to work hard for our sub 3. Very I wonder if it will be possible from this group though on the new route. I read your other post as well. Watch out for overtraining.

Me 2!

Yep. I think that is the same place as me. Often if I start cycling and if I push hard from the beginning then the pain comes. The pain normally disapears after about 45 min though. So I thought maybe it has something to do with warming up as well. ? Very weird. Sometimes when the pain comes, even just quickly riding out the saddle takes it away. Oh and how does your pain feel? Mines not that that sore, more something like a ligiment pain. I dont know.

Been struggling big time with a sore lower back when on the bike now days. Seems like the more time I have spent cycling and the stronger my legs are getting, the weaker the rest of me is getting. I started doing some things on the excercise ball last night to try and get over this terrible pain. Does anyone know really good excercises to strengthen your back that I can do at home? I dont have time to go to gym much.

Where exactly is the pain? I also sometimes get a pain on my inner upper right leg. I have suspected that it is from my saddle. Can you post a diagram so I can see if the pain is in the same area? What could it be from? Cutting off blood supply?