Cape Town Cycle Tour agrees to Women's only Invitational start group starting in Glencairn

[mon-goose]

the elites start at 6.15 and will take around 2h35? for a finish time around 8.50

 

the ladies will start at 6.30 and may take 2hrs? to finish at 8.30.

 

should be enough time gap to let the ladies finish without interference with the men

[Frosty]

Okay, so if the men's race is say 200km, what would the women's race then be?

 

If you say about 150km, then I would see this as making sense. . . a proportionate reduction in the race distance. And more importantly allowing the women to race on their own.

UCI rule 2.3.002 The maximum distance for one-day road races shall be as follows:

 

Women Elite

WWT - max 160Km

HC - max 140Km

1.1 - max 140Km

1.2 - max 140Km

[Icycling]

and .. they announce this 2 1/2 days before the start .... why not make it from next year if they want to give the elite ladies a shorter route ... then they can at least train properly for it ....

 

So now they trained for 109 km ...  including 1 extra hill .... If they had known .. they could have adapted there training accordingly ... Sometimes i wonder if the organizers know how much there decisions affect the participants .. Maybe only if it effect the bottom line then they will worry.

2 years back / due to fires the race was shortened to 48 km - believe it was still the same line honors winner as the year before - and that year a track specialist Cav road!

[Nibali]

Not all have Euro ambitions

Creating cool opportunity for local women's racing is definitely important

Let's see what the feedback is afterwards

 

True.

Hope the feedback is good.

I always type like this when I reply to your replies.

Weird

[dev null]

So, they not riding the CTCT then? What they gonna call the race? 

[Cat2forLife]

I do believe the answer to your question lies in the first three words of the story... "Following a request"

 

Gee thanks. Must've missed that.

['Dale]

True.

Hope the feedback is good.

I always type like this when I reply to your replies.

Weird

 

Creepy post

 

 

 

[Cat2forLife]

Apart from being totally misogynist I'm sure you can work it out for yourself.

 That's a bit unfair. I was merely inquiring about the justification of the change.

[carbon29er]

The men start at 6:15 some 34.2kms away.  The Ladies start at 6:30 34.2kms in front of the men.

 

At a 2:35 pace for the men (last year's winning time) meaning an average speed of 48 kph, the men will reach Glencairn at 6:58.

 

With men at a 2:35 pace the Elite Women would have to ride at an average of slower than 33.7kph to be caught on the finishing straight.

 

I think this is a huge change for the CTCT and will add to the event.

 

I hear a rumour, early stages, of following what is happening in London and Geelong where the fun ride takes place for the amateurs in the morning and the pros start later and do a longer route and finish AFTER the fun ride component. How cool would it be to be able to ride AND watch the finish sprint.

[LeoKnight]

We can comment on that it would have been nice to know that this concession was going to be made, and on the merits of a shorter distance. Yet it is also a positive thing as it does give the ladies an open road ahead and behind them. And for those that want to enjoy the full route, they will be done in tine to do the second loop.

[Nettie R]

Whatever their reason, but only days before the event?Surely the request didn't happen yesterday.

Selling ladies racing short, I think.

Edited March 9, 2017 by Nettie R

[The_Phoenix]

Will it count as a sub 3? 

[Icycling]

Will it count as a sub 3? 

What about a sub 2h30? I would hate to see in a few (3 to 4) years many girls have more sub 2h30 than me!!! hahaha

[KingZA]

We may be short on water but at this point in time we have electricity.

 

Floodlights, we need floodlights all along the route and then the ladies can start at 4am 

[Akon]

Not sure if you are sarcastic or not?? Whether the race is 109 or 100 or 90km would have made no difference to their training at all.

 

For years the organisers have failed to find a starting spot for the ladies where they don't get caught by the fun riders - think this is a great solution.

 

If any of the moaners on here have a brilliant alternative solution that nobody else have thought off I'm sure the organisers would be more than happy to hear them.

Don't you think the problem is: They are not doing the Cycle Tour anymore.  It is a different race now, just happens to overlap part of the Cycle Tour's route...

Edited March 10, 2017 by Akon

[carbon29er]

Not sure if you are sarcastic or not?? Whether the race is 109 or 100 or 90km would have made no difference to their training at all.

 

For years the organisers have failed to find a starting spot for the ladies where they don't get caught by the fun riders - think this is a great solution.

 

If any of the moaners on here have a brilliant alternative solution that nobody else have thought off I'm sure the organisers would be more than happy to hear them.

Very well said.