Jase619

So it looks like my 950 and then 995 prediction may hold true looking at this.

are you saying it's too expensive?

I didn't think about it at the time of this being posted, but my wife is actually going to do the prelude tour as she will be 7 months pregnant come the cycle tour weekend. While she would probably be able to cruise around, the risk of her falling is too much for our risk appetite. This gives a nice alternative to her. Unfortunately that means I won't gain a year on her as I had planned, number 16 it will be for her.

I wish they would bring back the Kiddies tour on the Saturday I think it was? for those bringing young ones with for the week it gave them something to look forward to as well. I think that died with Covid along with the MTB race, which I am sure would be a cool reinclusion.

I can confirm that the entrance fee is a marginal portion of the costs of traveling down and having a great week in Cape Town. It is starting to creep up on the R1k mark though, will be a rough year on this thread when it breaks that mark. I am predicting a R949 and a R999 first, so a number of years before that happens. Maybe for the 50th celebration they can take it back to the an entry fee from years gone by. . . . wishful thinking I know.

Okay, will have to go and find those boards haha Are the CTCT boards only for CTCT or is it now for other old Racetec timed races as well?

So, quick question on timing boards, is the one from Cape Town Cycle Tour usable for this race or?

Eh, if you are gonna ride it in person why worry about the prelude ride. One would think it is a way of including the people that have been excluded next year for religious purposes. I highly doubt they are going to allocate you a sub 3 finish or something like that, often organisations are not as dumb as we think. Don't think it is hunting for more entries either. I think it is the best compromise to include those that have no choice. I thought people would be losing their minds about the entry fee like every year

The wife and myself both have Garmin FR245s, and we have occasionally gone out of our way when we run together to ensure that everything is the same, start time, when we set the watches to start acquiring GPS, and we have never had it line up, hers is always slightly behind mine. Which I am okay with haha, but gives her lots of anger issues.

September has almost come to pass and no entries yet, I see the website still states entries will open in September, I wonder what's the hold up.

In this context, I wonder if "Dusi Guts" has a lot to do with the decline in numbers, presuming not a lot of people are willing to do it just to have explosive diarrhoea right after.

Haha, or recently expired

Question answered by watching the rider brief, completely different to the one I have. So never mind

To Those who may know the answer, if we already have one of these new fangled boards that look super-pro, from say Ride Joburg or similar, do we still use those or are we getting new boards again for life/race/next buy-out?

Precisely why the entries are so expensive, everything costs more, and there is less entries which means less to dilute the increase in the costs. Everything has skyrocketed in the last year, can't expect ye olde Argus to stay the same. We lucky it isn't over R1000. Just look at entry costs for comrades. Crazy.