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$ group 1st lap time 2:47:11(31st ACT and 22nd sub3 hours) Last groups 2nd lap time 5:49:32 (result to be confirmed). Rode with my sister who did it for the 1st time - my arm were more sore than my legs by the end! (32nd ACT and 1st over 5 hours!) Do I have the biggest time difference? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152253074750310&l=3431545461024662635

As stated already - I also find Tee tree oil works well - PnP sometime has a 15% solution of Tee tree Oil which worked the best for me - have not been able to find it recently!

Event Details 2 March 2014: Century City, Century Way Registration will be on Century Way and opens at 13:00pm and will be closed to entrants 30 minutes prior to their category. Timing chips available at the Registration as per the League Timing chip – About2Time at a cost of R50.00 should you not already have one. The format for the 2nd March will be as follows: Cat 4 – start at 14:15 race for 45 minutes and 1 lap / R50.00 entry fee – Inter Club CCC Cat 3 – start at 15:15 race for 30 minutes and 1 lap / R50.00 entry fee – Youth (U12, U14, u16) Cat 2 – start at 16:00 race for 45 minutes and 1 lap / R150.00 entry fee – Open, Vets, Masters and Ladies Cat 1 – start at 17:00 race for 60 minutes and 1 lap / R150.00 entry fee – Elite Men Prizes: Category 4 Interclub Men – 1st, 2nd, 3rd (R1000, R500, R250) and CC Medals Interclub Ladies – 1st, 2nd, 3rd (R1000, R500, R250) and CC Medals Category 3 Overall 1st, 2nd, 3rd – (R200, R150, R100) and Medals Category 2 Vets – 1st,2nd, 3rd (R500, R250,R125) and Medals Masters – 1st,2nd, 3rd (R500, R250,R125) and Medals Open – 1st,2nd, 3rd (R500, R250,R125) and Medals Ladies – 1st,2nd, 3rd (R500, R250,R125) and Trophies Category 1 Elites – 1st,2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th (R1500, R1000, R750, R300, R200) and Trophies for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Cat 1 – Hot Spots 2 hotspots amount to be drawn on the day Come and enjoy a day of fun in the sun while being entertained by top local DJ Adam Spence. Witness the most spectator friendly road racing. Top South African and local athletes will race their heart out to become the HERO!

The pic is not taken by me - I found it on my Facebook page!

Some pics from last weekend Aerodrome race!

2 March 2014: Century City, Century Way Registration will be on Century Way and opens at 13:00pm and will be closed to entrants 30 minutes prior to their category. Timing chips available at the Registration as per the League Timing chip - About2time at a cost of R50.00 should you not already have one. The format for the 2nd March will be as follows: Cat 4 - start at 14:15 race for 45 minutes and 1 lap / R50.00 entry fee Inter Club CCC Cat 3 – start at 15:15 race for 30 minutes and 1 lap / R50.00 entry fee Youth (U12, U14, u16) Cat 2 – start at 16:00 race for 45 minutes and 1 lap / R150.00 entry fee Open, Vets, Masters and Ladies Cat 1 – start at 17:00 race for 60 minutes and 1 lap / R150.00 entry fee Elite Men Prizes: Category 4 Interclub Men – 1st, 2nd, 3rd (R1000, R500, R250) and CC Medals Interclub Ladies – 1st, 2nd, 3rd (R1000, R500, R250) and CC Medals Category 3 Overall 1st, 2nd, 3rd – (R200, R150, R100) and Medals Category 2 Vets – 1st,2nd, 3rd (R500, R250,R125) and Medals Masters – 1st,2nd, 3rd (R500, R250,R125) and Medals Open – 1st,2nd, 3rd (R500, R250,R125) and Medals Ladies – 1st,2nd, 3rd (R500, R250,R125) and Trophies Category 1 Elites – 1st,2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th (R1500, R1000, R750, R300, R200) and Trophies for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Hot Spots 2 hotspots amount to be drawn on the day Come and enjoy a day of fun in the sun while being entertained by top local DJ Adam Spence. Witness the most spectator friendly road racing. Top South African and local athletes will race their heart out to become the HERO! The winner of the “Trip into the Skies” sponsored by KIA Diep River is Johan Fouche Cilliers These events are CSA Sanctioned and will operate under the rules of the UCI. Please note only participants with road bicycles will be able to enter. No mountain bikes. This series will be followed by a series of long distance one-day races, forming a winter series with another group of criterium events in the spring of 2014. For the latest news and announcements on Hero Challenge 2014, please visit: Facebook: https://www.facebook...ights-by-Linea8 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LightsByLinea #HeroChallenge For more information, interview requests and any other media enquiries please contact: Jen Parsons jen@limitlessevents.co.za 074 211 0718

Lotto have set rule on how their money is spent - generally on infrastructure and not on athletes!!! I have suggested that if PPA should chose to donate fund to CSA that they do the same - set rules! The problem is investing in athletes is an on going investment as they change consistently max they same athlete maybe at 4 Olympic and that's a major push - so it kind of like a bottomless pit - maybe thats why a socialist mind set is required as apposed to a capitalistic mind set....

What about PPA social responsibility? Not spending cash on hand on cyclist is also a tragedy as cycling losses - so having about 20 million in the "bank" which could be used for cycling also in my opinion is not great - yes better than been bankrupt but as a non profit organization basically the same crime yet in reverse! This is what I have written on FB in commentary!!! This is about cycling not CSA or BEN or any other cycling organization it's about PPA need to not spend money they have on cycling as apposed to investments!!!! "I look at this slightly differently and yet I think, I think, the way the man who champion the cause in ensuring that PPA got it's share of the ACT profits back in the 90ies - Lawrence Whittaker. This is basically why PPA have money which is more spent on non cycling i.e. unite trusts than cycling - granted not waisted unless the stock market crashes and unite need to be sold at that time! PPA get people started in "funride / fun races all are timed." From the masses their will always be a few who want to take sport to the next level and get supper competitive - in RSA, PPA are probably more responsible than any other cycling body to spark this supper competitive nature in these relatively few cyclist - but needless to say they are responsible! What I cannot understand is after doing this PPA see it fit to wash their hand from this responsibility and say now CSA handle these relatively few cyclist! CSA is basically a government arm - Government are also not very supportive of sport yet they collect a lot of tax from sport - government / national treasury budget for sport in RSA is very small and tends to get spent on banquette for the minister and not the athletes! Yet when sports people do well in their sport (eg national ruby team winning the world cup) the entire population is uplifted and ultimately productivity improves which means more tax! Likewise when Bafana Bafana do badly (or were the just striking on the pitch) the moral of the country goes down. So a tip for Pravin Gordhan would be to spend more of this tax money on sport esp. the minor / non stadium sports. Possibly the TAX man should also pay tithe i.e. allowed the tax paying community 10% of their tax to be allocated directly to areas - be it policing / education or even sport! But while this is all not happening we have the PPA which does not pay tax - why don't PPA consider donating what would have been their company tax - think 30% of income to the sporting body which is trying without much funding to looking after these supper competitive cyclist which PPA are probably more responsible in creating than they willing to admit. This would just be a grant and possibly like Lotto has done, it should be stipulated how it should be spent then audited eg a guideline for every 6 cyclist sent overseas ( representing RSA) 2 assistant many also be paid for - we all know RSA cyclist need to get to Europe or the USA to reach the next level of competitiveness. I been told last year the guys who went to race at the world cup for RSA on the Manchester track each had to come up with about R40 000 to represent their country - how will be ever create World class cyclist if it cost that individual so much in training time and then additional money. PPA certainly could help here and it's a cycling worthy cause - it's just need to be managed properly with the correct checks and balances!! I take issue with Goverment when they say when you put on RSA national kit you representing 52 million RSA people - then the only funding the provided to sports federations which does not necessary go to the athletes is done via Lotto - then you representing those who play Lotto!"

CSA - 1st Respondent South African Sports confederation and Olympic committee - 2nd Respondent. So as CSA was been a Muppet to the 2nd Respondent - will the 2nd Respondent fit the bill?

But the line before I assume is more important as it's higher on the priority list! Sort of contradictory. Riders will get two results Only the first lap’s result will apply towards Cycle Tour history and future seeding

The Conundrum: I have been officially invited to ride the Argus Cycle Tour for a 2nd time / lap this year!!! So my question is can I play catch up. I missed the 1st 6 events, was only 5 years old at event one. If I should get an invitation similar to the one I got this morning for the next 7 years will I be officially credited for having done more Argus Cycle Tour than their been?

Lights by Linea HERO CHALLENGE #2: Saturday 15 February in Stellenbosch Central on Plein and Bird Streets. Registration opens at 13:00. Proudly sponsored by KIA Motors South Africa, The Bicycle Company - Trek Bikes SA, Ecentric Payment Systems & CraftSA

Email I have just sent to PPA - guys you need to send your emails to PPABegin forwarded message: "From: Peter <icycling1@gmail.com> Date: 02 February 2014 2:52:03 PM SAST To: Karin Pohl <karin@pedalpower.org.za>, Stephen Hayward <Stephen.Hayward@capetown.gov.za> Subject: Roller Coaster league & Funride - Marshal and traffic officers! Hi, Today was the fist time in a long time I was in my team cars at a funride (SA TT champs this Wednesday need recovery time) - what I saw today was complete disregard for, at least, the 1st groups safety! A number of intersections including traffic light not controlled while some were "controlled" but the marshal had ZERO idea as to what they were supposed to do. A few had traffic cops were walking to their points as the front group went through the intersection! I don't think this will be the only email raising concerns over the Long route road marshaling but however many emails you get its probably still not enough - (at least) the front groups of (racing) cyclist lives were put at major risk. I would like to know what the result / consequence is to the Traffic officer - organizer informed me at the end of the race he paid R28 000.00 for Traffic officers. But the organizer also had his own marshals which were to seem to be completely untrained! I am sure Zaakier (Driver for commissair) will agree with the above - I can go into detail as to which intersection / traffic light were problematic but from the traffic lights turning onto Kommetjie road probably more than 50% of the point from their on were not controlled properly! Regards Peter Wheeler"

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