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Third year doing, unlike 2 previous years where I started getting mileage early and finished with 1 and 2 days to spare , I left it late and had to catch up finishing only on last day.

I would not categorise it as flat, but then the roads around my area make any incline seem a mountain.

Results are out https://ridejoburg.co.za/947-ride-joburg-2021-results/

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The start at Steyn City buggers me up with the climbs early on, this was more to my liking. Also once I finished the BraamFisher/Jan Smuts section and exiting Jhb City I found while still undulating it flowed quickly

Rode with group I trained with. Found parking easy, short ride to start, easy access to batch group, the water points we stopped at were well stocked, nice over cast weather (hardly noticed wind) route I found easier than previous and finished feeling I could carry on, exit through finish quick and efficient. Was sceptical about new start and finish but for me beats Steyn City easily.

Ready to go, batch confirmation, vaccinated, QR code received.

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I'm one of those in the riskier category i.e. over 50, I'm also someone that seems to pick up cold. flu etc by merely looking at someone and then symptoms appear very quick. Happy to say no sore throat, cough etc. Must just stay that way.

Are Thaba trails closed.

The 2020 Super Rugby tournament will be suspended "for the foreseeable future" following this weekend's Round 7 matches. https://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/SuperRugby/off-super-rugby-suspended-in-wake-of-coronavirus-pandemic-20200314

Paints a bleak picture, coincidence that the year Zuma is elected president the cr@p started, Ramaphosa who was tasked to oversee the SOE's including Eskom has to answer as well. Biggest bailout is during his tenure AND after "carefully head hunting" and selecting a chairman (no alignment to Zuma so no pressure) who admits he was not up to it and would not have taken the job if Ramaphosa had not asked him to. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/340645-eskom-no-bailouts-from-1923-to-2008-now-r49-billion-in-1-year.html?source=newsletter

When the governments own departments do not pay and are in arrears, small wonder than in the street follows. CAPE TOWN – Following the suspension of trains in the Western Cape on Thursday afternoon due to non-payment to Eskom, the power utility has now confirmed receiving payment from the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) with power restored. https://ewn.co.za/2020/02/27/wc-metrorail-service-restored-after-prasa-pays-eskom-bill

Eskoms Soweto debt had been wiped out twice already, each time with a "stern" statement that it cannot continue. Now demands for a third time. In 1992 residents of Soweto owed Eskom 100 million, despite this having been written off twice since then, today resident of Soweto owe 17 billion, good luck in getting a 10th of that back. https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/joburg-mayor-geoff-makhubo-joins-soweto-electricity-protest-43514320 Future's so bright I got to wear shades.

Not me but wish it was. Travelling from Jozi in your luxurious family car to spend the festive season in Cape Town is old news for Pretoria engineer Sven Kleine. The 48-year-old father of three girls took up the challenge of cycling from Pretoria to Sedgefield last year, not for a cause, but the experience. https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/dads-passion-for-cycling-takes-him-from-pretoria-to-the-southern-cape-just-for-the-ride-20200222