typhoon Posted April 1, 2014 Posted April 1, 2014 In for Rainbow qualifier on Sat Why only 1 day? taking it easy in your old age? 2 days for me, hopefully i'll be able to keep up with Mike.
Active Monkey Posted April 1, 2014 Posted April 1, 2014 Any one have a route profile for the 2 day? nonky 1
jcza Posted April 1, 2014 Posted April 1, 2014 Why only 1 day? taking it easy in your old age? 2 days for me, hopefully i'll be able to keep up with Mike. Emperors road race on Sunday
Reden Posted April 2, 2014 Author Posted April 2, 2014 Thanks for all the info.Looking forward to doing this.
Sephton Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 Hey guys, I need to ask a big favour. Is there anybody who wouldn't mind picking up my number on Wednesday please? Since I'm driving up from KZN I'll only arrive on Friday afternoon. Their email says there is no alternative but to pick up the numbers from Fourways between 12:00 and 17:00 on Wednesday. Dunno if they expect all entrants to be from the greater Jhb area with a half day job. If you're willing to assist, please drop me a PM and we can communicate, it will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Sephton
jcza Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 Hey guys, I need to ask a big favour. Is there anybody who wouldn't mind picking up my number on Wednesday please? Since I'm driving up from KZN I'll only arrive on Friday afternoon. Their email says there is no alternative but to pick up the numbers from Fourways between 12:00 and 17:00 on Wednesday. Dunno if they expect all entrants to be from the greater Jhb area with a half day job. If you're willing to assist, please drop me a PM and we can communicate, it will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Sephton This makes me mad. Arranged with someone to collect mine. Why is this necessary? Why can't we collect on the morning of the race?
canfan Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 Hey guys, I need to ask a big favour. Is there anybody who wouldn't mind picking up my number on Wednesday please? Since I'm driving up from KZN I'll only arrive on Friday afternoon. Their email says there is no alternative but to pick up the numbers from Fourways between 12:00 and 17:00 on Wednesday. Dunno if they expect all entrants to be from the greater Jhb area with a half day job. If you're willing to assist, please drop me a PM and we can communicate, it will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, SephtonI can get it for you. Will send pm.
MK Killer Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 Yip email said race profile on website and also cant find it
Sephton Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 A big thanks to canfan who saved the day, I owe you bud!
River Rat Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 (edited) 45 000 years ago, west of modern day Tarifa, Spain. Ug, Una and their first born son Og sat under a rock overhang to shelter from the strengthening autumn winds. They were forced to flee south after Ug unsuccessfully challenged Ag for the leadership of the southron Neanderthal tribe. Although Ug was bigger and stronger than Ag with vastly superior spear skills, Ug had not expected Ahn to side with Ag, he was lucky to get away with only a gash to his forearm. He fled into the darkness with Una following him carrying Og as they were chased by their blood thirsty pursuers up until the river. Here Ug guided them on a secret trail to a river crossing formed by a fallen moss covered pine tree, a trail their pursuers did not know. Ug remembered the shelter from last winter’s mammoth hunt, but Ug was worried, winter was coming and the mammoths were not migrating south and although bitterly cold, there was no snow. Ug wanted to tell Una that the world they knew was changing he knew this by instinct not by reason. He wanted to tell her but his species had not yet learnt to speak he could only communicate by a series of grunts and crude gestures, he took out his frustrations on Una by hitting her on her sloping forehead. Una was used to his outbursts knowing that he was the kindest of all the Neanderthal males in their tribe, she knew it would end soon and it did and Ug stormed away from the shelter with his loping gait disappearing into the darkness of the night. Ug climbed up the cliff face his thoughts were preoccupied with their future, they needed to join another tribe, and their survival depended on it. They could not hunt a mammoth on their own, this was a task that needed at least 10 adult males and no mammoth kill meant a very bleak winter, no meat for food and no furs to shield them from the cold. At the top of the cliff Ug stared out across the ocean contemplating his own, his mates and sons future when he spotted a glow on the opposite African shores some 15 km away. Ug wondered what this glow was, what he didn’t know was that he was looking upon the fires of a new species, Homo Sapiens, a superior species that knew how to control and use fire. A species that could communicate, that could coordinate their actions and plan their future, a species that in the next 5000 years would occupy and dominate the entirety of Europe and the planet. They would not only dominate their Neanderthal cousins but replace them. Ug was right to be concerned, in 20 000 years his species would be extinct and these smaller but more intelligent Homo Sapiens from Africa would be the most resourceful and resilient species that ever lived on planet Earth So when you ride your bike through the Cradle of Humankind look at the landscape through your modern eyes and imagine what it was like some 3,5 million years ago when three different hominid species roamed the plains between the Witwatersberg and Magiliesberg mountains. Think upon the fact that it was only 10 km south of the start that we have found evidence of the earliest controlled use of fire at Swartkrans. A technology discovered and mastered first by Homo Hablis some 1,3 million years ago, a technology that helped us to explore the mysterious moon that was Ug’s only source of light in the dark nights of Europe. But even closer, in fact 200m from the start line is evidence of an ancient hunting ground of Homo Hablis, the toolmaker, a veritable gathering place for the annual hunt dating back some 500 000 years ago. Better still why don’t you take some time out after your race to visit and view the displays in the underground attraction and see where we come from, discover your origins after all Maropeng means the place where I come from, a place of origin. See you at the start! Edited April 7, 2014 by River Rat MTB_wannabe 1
Active Monkey Posted April 8, 2014 Posted April 8, 2014 Meh... Git another email saying profile in site but cant find it anywhere RoboLuke 1
Sephton Posted April 8, 2014 Posted April 8, 2014 The profiles are up, at last... http://mountain-trophy.co.za/routes/ A bit useless though as it doesn't give any numbers.
canfan Posted April 8, 2014 Posted April 8, 2014 The profiles are up, at last... http://mountain-trophy.co.za/routes/ A bit useless though as it doesn't give any numbers.For those who haven't done this race before, save a bit for that climb at the 55km mark. If you don't, it will make the last 20km extremely unpleasant. I doesn't seem too bad on the profile, but it will hurt many people on Saturday. Dorpie and Francois Pienaar 2
Francois Pienaar Posted April 8, 2014 Posted April 8, 2014 Going to be awesome. I got destroyed in this race in 2010. Didn't even come back for day 2. Pretty determined to do better this year. Day 1 was a 6h40m slaughter... Yip, the grass at the end was KILLER.
Active Monkey Posted April 8, 2014 Posted April 8, 2014 Can any one shed some light... Compared to last weeks route 42 75km? Cos i felt flat at the end of the 42.
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