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BR 2:59:59 485/31046 M 455/24262 $ 142/158 M Elite 93/2168 36.34

 

 

Congrats to that man for the last of the sub 3 makers. Only 485 this year? Faceted shows group C as the last sub3 group????

 

485 would certainly reflect conditions

 

Not really, this is 3 more Sub 3's than last year.

 

Were the condtions easier or worse than last year? going by Sub 3's, this year was a bit easier.

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Shame - Bernie Stopforth missed it by 0.0000000000000001 seconds.

 

Seems like somebody in F also made the sub-3h:

J Viles 2:59:27 462/31046 M 432/24262 F 1/515 M 30-34 57/2477 36.44

This was serious good riding.......

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Who was the beast of a hubber in B in hubkit on a mtb?

His Hub name is Jumper and he is from Ceres.
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Shame - Bernie Stopforth missed it by 0.0000000000000001 seconds.

 

Seems like somebody in F also made the sub-3h:

J Viles 2:59:27 462/31046 M 432/24262 F 1/515 M 30-34 57/2477 36.44

 

Correct. My apologies. F seems to be the last sub3. Only one from there made it. Second one in group F results below.

 

 

SN 3:00:53 517/31046 M 485/24262 F 2/515 M U23 73/791 36.16

 

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Not really, this is 3 more Sub 3's than last year.

 

Were the condtions easier or worse than last year? going by Sub 3's, this year was a bit easier.

 

Thanks for that. Didn't ride last year but to my mind the average in decent conditions would be around 1% of finishers (900 riders or so) usually do a sub 3. I stand corrected.

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BR 2:59:59 485/31046 M 455/24262 $ 142/158 M Elite 93/2168 36.34

 

 

Congrats to that man for the last of the sub 3 makers. Only 485 this year? Faceted shows group C as the last sub3 group????

 

485 would certainly reflect conditions

 

4 seconds and 4 positions behind me

 

We were a group of about 5/6 gunning together for a sub-3 from Camps Bay, one oke in the group was really vocal in encouraging us to for that last effort! Caught another 5/6 riders in Sea Point and we were the last group in under 3 hours with seconds to spare.

 

Good memories :thumbup:

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Well done to all the finishers ... but you have to laugh at my mate Doug - 3:52 ... On a BMX!!

 

MACHINE!

 

how is that even possible? unbelievable.

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4 seconds and 4 positions behind me

 

We were a group of about 5/6 gunning together for a sub-3 from Camps Bay, one oke in the group was really vocal in encouraging us to for that last effort! Caught another 5/6 riders in Sea Point and we were the last group in under 3 hours with seconds to spare.

 

Good memories :thumbup:

 

Nicely done. Congrats

 

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First-timer from Norway (and got some advice on these forums a couple of weeks back) and had a great experience! What an amazing event! :-)

 

Rode in A group and placed 2nd in it with 2:50. Woman winner Cherise Stander on my wheel as we crossed the finish-line narrowly avoiding the two guys next to me who went down just before the line. Unfortunately i was bunched in by the fence in the sprint.

 

I filmed the last hour, including Chapman's, Suikerboisse and the final sprint, which I'll get up on my blog martinhoff.com when I get back to Norway. Got a few pictures out last night - including my selfie with Stephen Roche after the race!

 

Question: The guys on motorbicycles filming - where can some of the footage be seen? Is it on the internet somewhere, or is it a local tv-channel?

 

Well done! Yeah, I was working and catching the race on TV at the time. Were you in red/black? They made mention of a Norwegian rider in the bunch with Cherise. It was on Supersport 8. Maybe there's a youtube channel or some repeated highlights.

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how is that even possible? unbelievable.

I passed two guys at the bottom of Smitswinkel, they had very long seat posts. The were going balls to wall into that wind.
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I had a fantastic Argus. I started in D but had already planned on a social ride. I lost count of how many times I stopped. I was the first cyclist to stop at a lot of the early water stops and the ladies were so pleased as they had been there from silly o'clock getting ready.

 

I spoke to loads of people, took lot's of photo's and selfies, and high fived everyone that I could on the way past.

 

For me, it was something that I will actually remember as opposed to just starting and finishing. Well done to everyone who achieved their goals though.

I saw you having that pic taken with that big argus thing!

That was right before I stopped to have a pee. I had given up on riding in L group with the monster crashes we were having.

I have done the whole stop everywhere thing before and I must say that it is really awesome to do it.

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Question: The guys on motorbicycles filming - where can some of the footage be seen? Is it on the internet somewhere, or is it a local tv-channel?

 

It was probably SuperSport filming. Here is the schedule for the highlights: http://www.dstv.com/Search/?searchterm=argus&section=all. Unfortunately there does not seam to be a broadcast of the full show.

 

I see on your blog you said you are still here for a few days. Hopefully you will be able to catch this.

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Luckily that guy did not fall all the way down the side of moutain. He was brought back up with not too much effort.

Cippo, was he ok ? Heard loads of moaning and stuff.

 

Did you stop ?

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BTW, this year was the first time that I saw Suikerbossie not utterly littered with paper like previous races. Thank you frontrunners for not spoiling it for us. It is not nice cycling through a rubbish dump, and doing it slowly.

 

cannot agree more !! what a pleasure.

 

on the other hand, there should be no need to a chuck pen, just put the things back in your pocket !!!

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Cippo, was he ok ? Heard loads of moaning and stuff.

 

Did you stop ?

 

From what I heard he wasn't badly hurt. I did not ride , I was working on Argus.

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