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[Event] 2017 Cape Town Cycle Tour - Argus


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Can't believe it will only be my 2nd one.

 

The first one I borrowed a road bike. I'd never even swung a leg over a roadie bike. Set the seat height and off I went. The wind was HOWLING!!! By the time I got to Smits my arse was so sore I couldn't sit on the saddle. But my legs were cramping so I couldn't stand & crank.

 

Coming up Chappies was... Um... Challenging. Coming down chappies was no better coz of the wind. Suikerbossie was next level agony. My legs cramped so hard I thought my femur was going to break.

 

This year I'm hoping for less butt pain

Sounds all too familiar :lol: that reminds me I should probably start training :P

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Feeding Strategy

 

2 Bottles (Yes I will be running a saddle bag)

1 with Game and a bit of salt

1 with water

20 dates. 1 every 5km

1 Emergency Cafein Gel.

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Can't believe it will only be my 2nd one.

 

The first one I borrowed a road bike. I'd never even swung a leg over a roadie bike. Set the seat height and off I went. The wind was HOWLING!!! By the time I got to Smits my arse was so sore I couldn't sit on the saddle. But my legs were cramping so I couldn't stand & crank.

 

Coming up Chappies was... Um... Challenging. Coming down chappies was no better coz of the wind. Suikerbossie was next level agony. My legs cramped so hard I thought my femur was going to break.

 

This year I'm hoping for less butt pain

The way you have been training, you are going to ride this one a LOT quicker. 

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Feeding Strategy

 

2 Bottles (Yes I will be running a saddle bag)

1 with Game and a bit of salt

1 with water

20 dates. 1 every 5km

1 Emergency Cafein Gel.

Hi Duane, I'm no nutritionist but I would rather go for 1 date every 20 km's. 20 dates is going to do a number on your stomach! 

 

Eating every 5km's is overkill! 

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You better start adding as many angry faces as you can. A sub 3 from 1J is about as likely as you shagging Charlize Theron. (which will be quite nice but is as likely as you standing on a street corner and getting bitten by a shark) Possible, But not probable.

 

I can't recall a sub 3 ever being done from the 10th seeded group. Excluding elites and vets and tandems as start groups.

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Hi Duane, I'm no nutritionist but I would rather go for 1 date every 20 km's. 20 dates is going to do a number on your stomach! 

 

Eating every 5km's is overkill! 

I usually do one every 10km. I like their convenient little biodegradable wrappers and they seem to do the trick in terms of energy for me. Maybe you are right one every 5 is probably too much.

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I might use a saddle scrotum this year for my tools and goeters...

My first Argie on clinchers I think

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But the Argus is different. Every year I get properly excited. Every time I get goosebumps in the starting chutes. Every climb up Chappies has me grinning. Every year I get a thrill from the crowd up Wynberg Hill. Every time I wait in anticipation for the cool patch at Misty Cliffs. I know the route so well, I can even tell you where the glass splinters on the left edge will be. Still it feels fantastically new every year!

 

This post gave me butterflies in my stomach, can't wait to be there! 

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I might use a saddle scrotum this year for my tools and goeters...

My first Argie on clinchers I think

:eek:

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You better start adding as many angry faces as you can. A sub 3 from 1J is about as likely as you shagging Charlize Theron. Possible, But not probable.

 

I can't recall a sub 3 ever being done from the 10th seeded group. Excluding elites and vets and tandems as start groups.

Luckily I'm in the 9th seeded group  :clap:  (They're not using 'I')

All jokes aside, I've made my peace. I will do a 3'05 and just get seeded in 1J again next year. There's strong okes in every bunch, I just need 5 to join me up front and we'll have a blast!

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Luckily I'm in the 9th seeded group  :clap:  (They're not using 'I')

All jokes aside, I've made my peace. I will do a 3'05 and just get seeded in 1J again next year. There's strong okes in every bunch, I just need 5 to join me up front and we'll have a blast!

 

My son will join you in 1J. But I doubt he will be able to stick with the group past Smits, let alone make a break up Chappies to get a sub 3.

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