lekerman Posted June 10, 2014 Share Haha did the 70km monster...but doing the half sunday due to other plans on saturday... do you guys know which route will be followed on the half? Concrete strips? Daggapad pomphuis and oom piet? Cant seem to open the advendurance website today to have a look at the maps... good luck to all of you pack your teqn skills and leave any fear of downhills at home!!! ricky gianox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarHugger Posted June 10, 2014 Share Last year my descent started with an elderly gentlemen going over his handlebars and cracking a few ribs in front of me... after that i had one foot off the pedals.... Also saw a guy who's common sense kicked in right at the top, but his bike had other ideas. They parted ways with rider hitting the deck hard, unsettling some embrio mountains and klippertjies.......bike chose the shortest route down, jumping from rock to rock, tree to tree, like a young bronco. Rider and bike was reunited at the bottom again.......after a long while........both shaken up a bit, some scratches here and there and also missing some equipment. Rest of the race was semi ICU stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACM Posted June 10, 2014 Share Upgraded my entry from half to marathon Hope I'm not going to regret it... I'll have Father's day on Sunday to sleep it / walk it off Looking forward to it!! Thomas Atkinson and WesselvdWalt 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig8252 Posted June 10, 2014 Share So thinking about doing this race! Did the Joberg2c and the Sani2c a month ago and have only ridden three times on the indoor trainer since then in the past two weeks. Wondering if I will manage the marathon on Saturday? Any thoughts out there? WesselvdWalt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li Mu Bai Posted June 10, 2014 Share Sat 8am 9 degreesSat 14:00 19 degrees Sun 8am 9 degreesSun 14:00 21 degreesHAH! Rode there on sunday this last weekend. Started at 7am along the river, it was -5.6 degrees. hands were burning like the clappers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieVlieg Posted June 10, 2014 Share Bike ready from the crutch list. Will be giving this my all this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li Mu Bai Posted June 10, 2014 Share So thinking about doing this race! Did the Joberg2c and the Sani2c a month ago and have only ridden three times on the indoor trainer since then in the past two weeks. Wondering if I will manage the marathon on Saturday? Any thoughts out there?Sani2c is a velvet highway, over-manicured, and stripped.VG is proper. that sattelite decent.... just sucks.It seems that aweful unrideable donga is out (after greek church) is that correct?Greek Church is quite picturesque, enjoy riding up there. Pants Boy, LongDonkey and WesselvdWalt 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarHugger Posted June 10, 2014 Share So thinking about doing this race! Did the Joberg2c and the Sani2c a month ago and have only ridden three times on the indoor trainer since then in the past two weeks. Wondering if I will manage the marathon on Saturday? Any thoughts out there? Fight the urge to go balls to the wall at the start of the race.....pace yourself within comfortable limits. After 40-45km you can go for it. You won't regret it. Hope it goes well. Good luck WesselvdWalt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesselvdWalt Posted June 10, 2014 Share HAH! Rode there on sunday this last weekend. Started at 7am along the river, it was -5.6 degrees. hands were burning like the clappers. Current prediction has a higher high and a lower low...http://www.yr.no/place/South_Africa/North-West/Skeerpoort/long.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesselvdWalt Posted June 10, 2014 Share Sani2c is a velvet highway, over-manicured, and stripped.VG is proper. that sattelite decent.... just sucks.It seems that aweful unrideable donga is out (after greek church) is that correct?Greek Church is quite picturesque, enjoy riding up there. The Ultra turns left after Oom Piet en goes to the Greek Church & Jou Bliksem and returns by the donga floating bridge and river bends north.The Marathon turn right after Oom Piet and does Savannah Hills, and the complete River bends south. Squier 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squier Posted June 11, 2014 Share So thinking about doing this race! Did the Joberg2c and the Sani2c a month ago and have only ridden three times on the indoor trainer since then in the past two weeks. Wondering if I will manage the marathon on Saturday? Any thoughts out there? Stop thinking about it. Just enter! Thomas Atkinson, rouxtjie and CMK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig8252 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Stop thinking about it. Just enter! Entered! Looking forward to some good trails! Always fun at van gaalens! And it will get me out of bed as well! Squier, rouxtjie and WesselvdWalt 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traverse Posted June 11, 2014 Share Entered! Looking forward to some good trails! Always fun at van gaalens! And it will get me out of bed as well!Well done, that's the spirit, enjoy it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Atkinson Posted June 11, 2014 Share Anyone else predicting a +7 hour finish on the marathon ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMK Posted June 11, 2014 Share Anyone else predicting a +7 hour finish on the marathon ? Ill beat you and do the half marathon in that time Thomas Atkinson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweiss Posted June 11, 2014 Share Thomas, I am not planning a 7 hour ride but after everything I am reading on this forum I don't know how well this will go! I have put in almost 250 km's of training over the past 2 weeks but only done about 2,500m of climbing. Added to the fact that I have never done 75km on a mtb before so it will be interesting to see how things turn out on the day. Thomas Atkinson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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