Epic Insider: Time losses and misplaced partners on Stage 3

[Batmanza]

Stage 3 arrived and riders walked around the campsite a bit more lethargically today as we prepared for the long haul to Greyton.

 

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[Mopkop]

Hang in there! YOU'VE GOTS THIS

[DJR]

Nice report and once again great pictures!

[Warren911]

Great report, awesome pics and nice insight!!

Good luck and keep going!!!

[SwissVan]

Great stuff and nice pictures

 

Quote: "We had been climbing steadily for 40kms now and we had more district road in store, I looked around the group for my partner and dismay. I thought he was behind me but he was nowhere to be seen. I stopped for a short while worried that he might have had a technical issue but moved along after a brief wait"

 

Ha ha know the feeling, happened to me and my partner in 2011 on stage 2 or 3...Thinking my partner was a bit further back I stopped to take a picture at the top of a stiff little climb and while taking the picture he went past me without either of us seeing each other....I waited and waited thinking he must have a problem, even went back down the climb to look for him...meanwhile having passed me unawares he was riding faster trying to catch up to me.... Luckily we did not cross any timing mats and found each other eventually...the first tense words of the week passed our lips then...