Mamil Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 If I'm in as good a shape as your old man in 12 or 13 year's time I will be very happy indeed. Looking forward to Sunday immensely and hoping we don't have the SE gusting again. Just watched the flyby, looked like a great race. See you on Sunday. The wife has given me the morning off to come race
Pure Savage Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 If I'm in as good a shape as your old man in 12 or 13 year's time I will be very happy indeed. Looking forward to Sunday immensely and hoping we don't have the SE gusting again.The SE is makes the race THAT more fun Adds an extra element as was discussed in the wheel sucking thread.
'Dale Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 Yeah, the last few editions have been perfect for kite-surfing. ????
APJ88 Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 My third ever road race in as many weeks. Hardest one yet. Started in K (50 bucks to reseed is a bit steep IMO) along with H, I and J and the first few clicks to the bottom of the climb up to Hillcrest were blisteringly fast by my standards - averaging about 35kph. The climb split us into three groups - some fast guys went off at top speed, including one kind but cheeky young skinny 20 something oke who put a hand on my back as he went sailing past. His mate suggested he shouldn't be a d1ck but I wanted to know why he didn't keep pushing me up the hill. Our little group gathered numbers from somewhere, including a guy in a Pure Savage shirt (he wasn't shy to take his turn on the front), a C rider who didn't look like he wanted to be dropped by us lowly okes and picked up his pace, a skinny guy in red shoes who kept hollering for the group to stay together as he pumped past everyone to solo for 10 minutes before dropping back to cheer us all on and then take off again and a good rider in a "Alpe d'huez" shirt that I recognised from the Boeckaert Sonnen. We flew along at a good pace and I felt very optimistic about beating all previous times. It all went horribly wrong at the dirt - our group which had co-operated well until then fell apart completely. Some went charging off ahead, others were left behind. I careened off the dirt back onto the tar with the bike making more of the decisions about where to go than I was just in time to be dropped by the main body of HIJK as we went up Malanshoogte - very frustrating. I could see them for a long time just 300 meters or so ahead and gradually pulling away up the hill. From there it was every man and his granny for himself for me and the stragglers of the short route who were toiling away up the hill. At the Hoogekraal 4 way stop I caught sight of a pair of green socks I recognised from the halcyon moments I had spent with the the group and I laboured up the hill, hypnotised by the lumo-green-up-and-down and eventually caught him as we got to Burgundy. We exchanged horror stories about how we got dropped and took turns very nicely into the horrible wind until Koeberg road where he declared himself finished and I got a second wind to finish a good dozen or so places ahead of the 50th percentile at an average speed of 28,4. I bumped into Alpe de Huez guy at the finish and he said he was a part of a two man group up Conties so I reckon the group pretty much fell apart soon after I lost them anyway. Or so I console myself. I don't know what happened to red shoes or Pure Savage. These peletons are short lived alliances it seems. This was my first race back in South Africa in 9 years - had to start in the H group and worked hard to set a decent time. I won the group (hoping to get my seeding upgraded as soon as) but my results was never recorded ( some issue with my transponder that racetec is now looking into) That all being said - great race, 4-6 guys in the H group worked well together and I enjoyed the 'fun' racing aspect of it. I was the guy in my 20's with the Investec Kit ;-) Im not sure if it was me who gave you a push!
Brakkies Sport Fotos Posted February 22, 2017 Posted February 22, 2017 600+ Journey for Sight images already loaded. I'm busy loading 300 more and all of them should be available tomm. morning:http://brakkies.photofrog.co.za/gig/
Mamil Posted February 22, 2017 Posted February 22, 2017 Love the DOF on this photo - sharp from just before the front wheel to just after the back. Nice socks too.
Pure Savage Posted February 22, 2017 Posted February 22, 2017 600+ Journey for Sight images already loaded. I'm busy loading 300 more and all of them should be available tomm. morning:http://brakkies.photofrog.co.za/gig/Going to buy my dad the photo when I home! Been sent it 4-5 times today [emoji23] Bought this one and a few other from 99er Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
billygoat0523 Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 600+ Journey for Sight images already loaded. I'm busy loading 300 more and all of them should be available tomm.Thanks :-) got a good one of me going down the gravel
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