Reegan

Hi all, I'm sure it's been asked before but: Does anyone know where I can borrow or hire a tandem for 97,4? Really don't want to buy one for one race but me and my partner would love to have the experience of doing the race on a tandem! Any advice or a hubber willing to rent out their beloved 4 pedal, would be greatly appreciated

Yeah, I am one of the creepy daily watchers of this forum but not really much of a poster as I learn more from the forum than I can offer! But yes I made the news this morning, fault of my own but will wait and see what comes of it. The committee will have to punish someone to set a president and if it's me I'm okay with that. Just a bit sad the way it has all happened when there really was no bad intentions behind the whole thing

Event Name: Gauteng Student Cup #1 When: 14 April 2018 Where: John Vorster Hoër Tegniese Skool, Gauteng Category: MTB Calling all Varsity students! On 14 April 2018 John Vorster Hoër Tegniese Skool will be host to three big events to kick off the year: Student MTB Cup. For more info contact Joanita admin@mtbza.co.za 084-602-2271. Enter on the MTBZA app. Go to Event Page

Haha thanks for the welcome! I'm ashamed to admit I've been following this thread since last Comrades and finally decided to get involved But I managed to lock in my back to back this year 10:45, 1h15 improvement from last year and confirmed that I much prefer the down run!

I started yesterday getting back into it for CT marathon too and my legs could have done with some oil to say the least. I felt like an old lady shuffling around! The cold doesn't help my motivation to get back out there either. These cold and dark winter mornings make me thankful Comrades isn't in Spring and I'd have to train through the whole winter

A guy from our sister club qualified B batch for his 15th run this year and pulled out on the morning cause he didn't think he'd make his silver and decided it wasn't worth it then Had double the kays from Jan-June of anyone else I know also!

With D being the biggest batch, I would have assumed it would be H. I love looking at race statistics they are always full of surprises!

Interesting to see that E batch kind of broke the trend there for bronze medals and DNF. I wonder why?

As a girl and a newbie this is my experience with cycling: Being a runner myself (Ultra road marathons mostly) I took up cycling about a year ago as a form of cross training between my running and my closest friend, who has been a competitive cyclist since before he could walk, encouraged me to give it a go too. We built up a bike together with his help and the help of all you here on the hub and managed to get a nice spec-ed mtb for around 10k. I started cycling with him only and myself just around the roads in Pretoria and then we started going to mtb parks and started with a 16km race and worked up to 45km races and 60km group rides. I was more than happy to ride my bike on the roads (if it meant going round in circles to get longer distances) to get fit and enjoyed the actual cycling itself very much three times a week when I didn't run. However the more I began to join races and go to mtb parks I began to enjoy it less and less. I'm not the most confident on the trails when it gets technical or tight lines and somehow managed to faceplant at almost every race without fail. The thing that got me though was that no matter if I was in the J batch at a trailseeker if I got to a technical section and needed a bit more time to maneuver through it I'd be shouted at from behind with numerous calls of "TRACK" and just general irritated comments of inconvenience. Now twice shy I'd just get off and pull my bike off the path into the bushes at every small technicality so people could pass and not even attempt anything which never helped me gain the confidence to practise them. Group rides were similar; I would be perhaps the slowest in the bottom batch owing to my difficulty with technicalities and although those ahead would go on ahead of me and then come back and forth all the time it never gave me much confidence or encouraged me to try I'd rather just get off and run with my bike to get through it quick and not be left behind. I tried going to bike parks alone at early hours eventually to practise and get better which did help granted but the moment anyone came up behind me at a race or a normal hour of the day the same thing would occur. And I'm not trying to run down anyone in the cycling world because there have been those who stop behind me and wait and encourage me to give something a go and they'll wait behind me happily or pass me when there is space and give a cheerful thanks on their way past. But in general I felt the people are just not as interested in helping someone who is a little less confident (as most ladies are). Whereas during a group run if someone is having an off day or is a little slow one if not all will take the time to slow to their pace that day or walk with them and encourage them to run again at the next lamp post or whatever. And I don't mean to offend anyone with what I have said here just thought I'd share my experience which has put me off cycling a lot and hence I haven't touched my bike in the last few weeks after the latest group ride.