City CC's Spa 2 Spa 2013

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City CC embarked on their annual pilgrimage to the Southen Cape today. Our first day we conquered our first climb of the Spa 2 Spa tour. The Outeniwua is a gentle 12km climb which took about 40minutes . The descent was chilly. We stay ovvernight in a little place called Herald. Tomorrow we have our first 90km ride to Calitzdorp via Oudtshoorn.

Edited August 3, 2013 by ccc2

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Arrived safe and sound in Herald

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The second half of today's journey was from Oudt shoorn to Calitzdorp spa. We elected to ride on the tar roadd instead of the cement one. We encountered a stiff breeze but managed to maintain a nice easy 25kph average up + down hills.

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Chilling with Meerkats at the Cango Wildlife Farm

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Going down the main road in Oudtshoorn

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Day 3:

 

We started the day with a quick trip to the town from the spa and started the climb up Huisrivier pass. It took the sprinters just over an hour to climb the 18 kms to the top and then it was a quick dash to Ladismith for lunch. Ronnies Sex Shop beckoned and we agreed to ride as a group for balance of the ride. With no wind we were soon sipping a beer.

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Going down the main road in Oudtshoorn

 

 

Creating a traffic jam.! LOL

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Our destination for today is avalon springs in montagu. We had a beaut of a ride from warm waterberg spa. We rode the 92 km in just 3.45 which included the infamous op de tradouw climb

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... which included the infamous op de tradouw climb

 

Is this some early DC training.?

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Is this some early DC training.?

 

We missed the entry for the DC but we're not at all disappointed

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We had a fantastic ride from Montgu to Goudini Spa today. We covered the 100k ride in just over 4 hrs. The weather has played along all week and is set to continue into the weekend. All participants have handled each day with ease and have committed to next year.

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Friday - 2nd last day

we had a bit of a mishap on thursday night at the only restaraunt in Rawsonville - the tin house - when the new owner unbooked us without letting us know. can they afford to turn away a party of 15? - nice one.

 

we had a late breakfast at the "Damm Fine Cafe" in Goudini, then we rode thru the beautiful slanghoek vally, before we had a little climb up Bains kloof. the first one to the top won the polka dot pyjamas.

 

the descent into wellington isn't pleasant.

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we spent the last night at the lady loch guest house in wellington.

what a lovely place. we enjoyed their trademark steak for supper.

here is our last group foto - all fine things have to come to an end.

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we met up with a few of our club members who rode out to Durbanville/fesantekraal

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home and the cupochino at the wild bean edgemead.

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Nice diary, thanks. You could easily sell this as a package to overseas tourist to The Cape & in the process raise funds for your club or just use it for (prize money for the winter & spring leagues) :-)