Stage races getting easier ?

[PYGA1]

I don't think it needs to be a sufferfest, I do think the way it's been handled by the 3 Towers and Berg & Bush crew is better though, give the riders that want it a really tough course and those that don't a shorter option.

 

I have a demanding job, 2 young kids and still make time to get about 10 hours a week in the saddle and enjoy a more challenging course. Having said that by day 8 of Joberg2c I think I I'll prefer the easier day with less climbing

[duringd]

So now that I at last get an entry to the S2C you guys are telling me I'm doing a pissie race! Ag nee man!!!!

[gummibear]

The 29ers are getting lighter and faster so it just feels like less climbing

You can get away with a 1X10 on any route now.

[Big JD]

I don't think it needs to be a sufferfest, I do think the way it's been handled by the 3 Towers and Berg & Bush crew is better though, give the riders that want it a really tough course and those that don't a shorter option.

 

I have a demanding job, 2 young kids and still make time to get about 10 hours a week in the saddle and enjoy a more challenging course. Having said that by day 8 of Joberg2c I think I I'll prefer the easier day with less climbing

 

See you at Joberg2C. Not sure 10 hours a week is enough though!

[Dicky DQ]

See you at Joberg2C. Not sure 10 hours a week is enough though!

10

hrs a week is more than enough if structured properly. Not may top 50 finishers do more than that. It is the quality that counts not quantity.

[PYGA1]

 

 

See you at Joberg2C. Not sure 10 hours a week is enough though!

 

Time will tell. I finished it last year.

[PYGA1]

 

10

hrs a week is more than enough if structured properly. Not may top 50 finishers do more than that. It is the quality that counts not quantity.

 

Couldn't agree more, most important is quality of the program. I was just in the top 100, going to ride, not race

[Big JD]

Just pulling your leg GT1. My training has been hovering around the 10hr a week as well.

[cycle&sport]

Just spoken to Farmer Glen and he has asured me that day 2 is not MUCH easier that last year - it is basically the same route as last year EXCEPT that,that bitch climb at the end of the day with the tricky decent over the rock is no more. They have made a track down next to the tar road on the right hand-side into the overnight stop

[MuddyMike]

They musy make it all harder, including Epic. Tired of my sport been taken over by the golfing crew! The guys at Sani must ride faster....

 

Freedom Challenge here I come.

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