Ninetyniner Durbanville Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 Event Name: 99er Cycle TourWhen: 8 February 2014Where: Durbanville Race Course, Western CapeCategory: RoadThe 99er Cyle Tour and MTB Challenge is an established sporting event on the Westen Cape Cycling calender that caters for road and mountain bike enthusiasts. The next race is on 8 February 2014. Entries will open early December 2013. The Durbanville Racecourse is the race venue and serves as the Start/Finish for the 99km road race55km road race35km MTB race12km MTB race5 km Fun WalkOn-line entries open on 2 December 2013 Early entries close at 24h00 on 27 January 2014 On-line entries close on 3 February 2014 Go to Event Page
feetup Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 35km mtb is the best they can do to grow the event? My 11yr old will do that in 2hrs. really?
kvdp Posted January 16, 2014 Posted January 16, 2014 Do not underestimate the 35km.More than 1100m of climbing in such short distance means aftjop! Musketeer and r0adrunner 2
Thomo Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 Do not underestimate the 35km.More than 1100m of climbing in such short distance means aftjop! Distance alone can be very deceiving ... especially when it's "all" uphill. Musketeer 1
Pure Savage Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 Can we get some more info on the 5km fun walk, the Mrs does not always appreciate sitting on the side of the road taking photos! feetup 1
feetup Posted January 18, 2014 Posted January 18, 2014 Do not underestimate the 35km.More than 1100m of climbing in such short distance means aftjop!Anyone can make a short race unpleasant?What i am trying to say is 35km the longest distance they can put together for the MTB section? At least 50km with 1100m climbing would be great! Johny Bravo 1
Rapunzel Posted January 18, 2014 Posted January 18, 2014 Anyone can make a short race unpleasant?What i am trying to say is 35km the longest distance they can put together for the MTB section? At least 50km with 1100m climbing would be great!Try riding the trails before making any conclusions. The route contains some of the most awesome singletrack in the tygerberg hills - it has no free miles but doesn't contain any unnecessary torture. leaders will probably average between 18 and 19km/h Musketeer, Karl Beaton and WaldoZ 3
feetup Posted January 19, 2014 Posted January 19, 2014 Try riding the trails before making any conclusions. The route contains some of the most awesome singletrack in the tygerberg hills - it has no free miles but doesn't contain any unnecessary torture. leaders will probably average between 18 and 19km/hpoint taken,i did jump the gun on this,my apologies
Johny Bravo Posted January 19, 2014 Posted January 19, 2014 The Durbanville trails in general are tough. Too tough for me, Last race I did was 28km with 1500m of climbing. Not what I consider a fun day out. Going to do the road race this year. feetup 1
DJTerblanche Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 Does anyone know how the seeding will work for the 99km Road Race?
Skubarra Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 Does anyone know how the seeding will work for the 99km Road Race? They base them on the PPA races results, kind of like the Burger and Argus (ie not the normal PPA funride groups)
Pure Savage Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 Does anyone know how the seeding will work for the 99km Road Race? They run there own seeding for the event for all that have entered, they pull the data from Racetec results.
DJTerblanche Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 Ok thanks Skubarra and skistar. I have Burger 2013 and Tour de PPA 2014 results now on Racetec so hopefully they use them
Musketeer Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 Try riding the trails before making any conclusions. The route contains some of the most awesome singletrack in the tygerberg hills - it has no free miles but doesn't contain any unnecessary torture. leaders will probably average between 18 and 19km/h Have to agree with this. Relocated from Pretoria where I used to ride most of the Marathons with a relevant degree of ease. Used to drill down 70km practice sessions quite easily. The trails around Durbanville in my opinion is completely different than what I'm used to. It's way tougher in general. Did Hoogekraal last week with a bunch of mates and they made me look like a rookie. 11km and felt like a good 40km session with the boys up in Gauteng. Entered the 35km but I'm by no means under the impression that it's going to be just another scenic race.
scuzzy Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 If I am not signed up to PPA, will this influence my seading. Not sure I I am going to do PPA this year.
FanieFiets Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 If I am not signed up to PPA, will this influence my seading. Not sure I I am going to do PPA this year. Yes, I think so. I think they use a combination of PPA rides and cycletour events for you seeding doing this event. If not a PPA member just your cycletour events. Either way to late to do anything about it now :-)
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