Jump to content

SeaBee

Members
  • Posts

    2219
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by SeaBee

  1. Haaaahahaha! Darn, you guys caught me... Except that vaporfly don't go with a Salomon cap. Stretch, I thought more of your fashion sense.
  2. Darn, everything I'm looking at, even the pink cap for my daughter is sold out...
  3. Ja, weirdly saw a buddy got an entry and asked if the half entries have been drawn yet. He said he got an entry for the full... I think he has to start doing some running training. He has done 0 Oceans, don't think he's ever even done a marathon and to my knowledge not an ASA member - more into cross-fit, etc. That's why I assumed he tried for the half. So how he got picked with supposedly only a draw for 7+ finishers, I am absolutely stumped. Haven't heard anything, but not all that fussed. Would like to do it, but if not, then I can ride and run ALL Easter weekend! Or maybe do the trail, but see that is "under review".
  4. Agreed - Cape Town marathon all the way. Nice flat route, plus a great vibe that will carry her! And with the current layout, the dull bit (for me) is behind you early - and downhill. Coming up that bit from Newlands at the end of the run as it was a couple of years ago... man, that was a joy killer of note. Until you hit the gardens! Then the smile was back...
  5. The only thing I do not like about these is the fact that there's no "back" button. Unless a firmware upgrade which I haven't applied changed that. You can skip a song, but you can't re-listen.
  6. "Cheating" is part of the game. They are all trying to find a way to interpret the rules differently and find a loophole. Some clever interpretation of the rules are deemed to stretch it too far and ruled out, others are the next big thing. Read double diffusers, "legal" only for one season, front wings flexing in a another way than was strictly deemed illegal, rear wings being influenced by speed, programmable brake bias (to name a very recent one!), double chassis, six wheels, aerodynamic advantageous suspension, barge board designed with a double (sided) lip... shall I go on? Problem nowadays is the moan-and-bitch culture. Nobody ran to the stewards when Renault pitched up with the first turbo. Likewise when Lotus introduced the first side skirts or when Ferrari chose to run more thirsty V12 when everybody was preferring V8's and 10's... As I type, I am starting to realise more and more why I'm following F1 only with dim interest these days.
  7. Ja, in as well. Carpet, nice to see you raised you've living standards from the floor...(?)
  8. At least I will know well in advanced whether I need to renew my ASA license, since this is all I need it for... But fortunately I don't have up-country logistics and all to sort out. And I've done it a couple of times, so... if not drawn, I have a relaxed Easter, running and riding in the mountains.
  9. How's this for irony... I had some minor niggles and decided to ride on Saturday to check them out, rather than run. Status quo, so ride was on again yesterday. First time I rode back-to-back on a weekend since 2017 W2W! And then... riiight towards the end I had a reasonably high-speed bike-ride separation. Bike is okay! Now I can't even feel my niggles compared to the stiffness (and I know I was freakin lucky having walked away like I did...) creeping in. Will hopefully get the chance to go spin some soreness out tonight. Well, it won't help the upper body areas, but at least hips and glutes will get some light work done.
  10. Lekker - finals the weekend before Oceans, then we can taper!
  11. For those wondering about the run - that route on RBK actually runs even nicer (for me!) than it rides. Long route that is, with that lekker long winding descend - not sure where the sorter routes go, but it's there's a lot of great running options! Cannot join due to having something else on, but it's a real nice run.
  12. This sounds exactly like what I had. Gastroscopy showed nothing and in the chat afterwards with the specialist, the truth was revealed in that I had my gall bladder removed many a year ago and this is now causing quite common repercussions. ​Drinking ulsanic now to control the bile pushback into the stomach (because of the lack of the gall bladder) and it seems to work. Quite sure I was more happy to find the cause than the fact that the gastroscopy was (in the end) done unnecessarily.
  13. Ehhhrrr... it's on FB - posted 23 Oct on MTB section and 25 Oct on the overall festival page. All the routes, plus elevation.
  14. Jewbacca, I'd normally say the same, or Peregrines, but AFAIK the 4% is 10mm drop, which is a bit far off the 0 drop Altra or the 4mm of the Peregrine to just chop and change. But there may be more flexible people in that regard than me.
  15. Maybe not XTERRA SA, but Stillwater not willing to pay/bend over. Hoping there's another organiser which will still host it - preferably at the same venue!
  16. Knowing Andrew, he'll do a couple of runs early Dec to justify the Christmas jollyfications - and follow that up with the taper from there on in. And he'll still be juuuust fine on the day! I'm actually amazed at what you guys do when you put your mind to it!
  17. They most likely did not want to ruin a perfectly good set of new slicks just for the run-down into the first corner...
  18. Candz, just do it! Esp Oceans, the people just carry you. Unless you go out too hard in that first 20 or so, which is easy to do, you get to marathon mark and think... oh, I was stuffed when I did a marathon, now I'm slightly less stuffed with only 2 parkruns (or a parkrun and a 10k!) to go.
  19. Hacc, you clearly missed your calling in advertising!
  20. I'm as relaxed as you can get when it comes to races, esp since I classify myself as a trail runner. But at least I can climb a bit. Maybe not world-beating, but I keep up with most. And to then have this exact scenario is a bit hard to swallow, as I did in Stb MTB. Guy on e-bike comes breezing past me on a steepish climb, I catch up afterwards, only for him to stop right in the middle of the track at the first switchback...
  21. Not "no free practice" - they already had two sessions today. No Saturday running. Only FP3 not happening and quali moved.
  22. With my luck, the water will go "pop" in any of the three other directions than the one it's meant and designed to pop...
  23. Dave, that's almost what I'm more upset about. 122 out of 342 tests is done in one week. And they only test 220-odd on the pro's during the remaining 51 weeks of the year. In a sport where "size does matter"... To add to what Andrew said - the fact that they only found 16 is laughable. Personal opinion.
  24. Am I correct in my thinking that DiscoBank is still only open for migration and not new account, such as a savings/transactional account for junior?
Settings My Forum Content My Followed Content Forum Settings Ad Messages My Ads My Favourites My Saved Alerts My Pay Deals Help Logout