Ferro Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 I tried to enter today but the site indicates that entries are closed. Can one enter on the day ? Yes. REGISTRATION AND LATE ENTRIESRegistration will take place on the morning of the event, where you must collect your event entry sticker. A limited number of late entries will be available at registration on the morning from 05h00, so please do tell your friends who may have missed the cut-off, about it. LATE ENTRIES Distance PPA Members Non Members 91 km R350 R450 38 km R150 R200
Skubarra Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 The last one (#5) last year was about 450 odd riders. Think there were about 7 or 8 groups in the soup. The other sportifs were smaller, especially in Winter. I assume the numbers will be up given the Argus just around corner. Lots of noobs training on the roads these past few weeks... Dropping down to C for the first time in a long while, not enough races & old age finally caught up with me Time to stop the rot...
Halfdoesyn Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 I assume the numbers will be up given the Argus just around corner. Loots of noobs training on the roads these past few weeks... Dropping down to C for the first time in a long while, not enough races & old age finally caught up with me Time to stop the rot... Yep, she waits for nobody. Would have liked to do it, but have some family responsibilities. Will do the Bouckaert next week.
Mamil Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 Limited entries at registration according to email
Apeman2 Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 Yes. REGISTRATION AND LATE ENTRIESRegistration will take place on the morning of the event, where you must collect your event entry sticker. A limited number of late entries will be available at registration on the morning from 05h00, so please do tell your friends who may have missed the cut-off, about it. LATE ENTRIESDistancePPA MembersNon Members91 kmR350R45038 kmR150R200 PPA should display the online entry cutoff on the event details page, then people won't miss it.
Halfdoesyn Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 PPA should display the online entry cutoff on the event details page, then people won't miss it. Among a lot of other things they should do...
Karman de Lange Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 Got told not allowed to race (injury) , but can LSD So gonna have lekker sunday cruise from the back for a change.
Americo Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 Does any of you have a course of the race? Is it the same one as the last CycloSportif? And by the way anyone going from Sea Point?
Mamil Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 It would appear that the n1 will be closed between durban rd and r300 between 7pm tonight and 9am tomorrow https://m.news24.com/Traffic/Western_Cape/F685299 For those of us coming from the south
thisismyotherbike Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 Does any of you have a course of the race? Is it the same one as the last CycloSportif? And by the way anyone going from Sea Point?https://www.strava.com/routes/11349867
LeoKnight Posted January 28, 2018 Author Posted January 28, 2018 Hope everyone enjoyed the race, heard there was a bit of a late start due to delays in registrations.
Ferro Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 Registration did take longer than expected but i still made the start for my batch albeit with a hand written sticker. Think guys in earlier batches wouldve struggled to make it. Batch I&J (or J&K) flew through the first 40 odd km. Was sad to see them disappear up the big climb of the day. Luckily made some buddies along the way up and had some lekker chats to the end. Glad i stopped at the last waterpoint because the temp was getting toasty and the last 20km was testing. Enjoyed the outing though.
Mamil Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 I reluctantly dragged myself out of bed this morning with the heaviness of yesterday's porcupine ridge MTB in my legs, muttering to myself about my proclivity for ambitious race entries, usually late at night after whiskey, and dragged myself to Windmeul, I congratulated myself for taking the N2 - R300 having spotted yesterday that the N1 was going to be closed but this only partially improved my mood. My dark mood exaggerated the thoughts I usually have when registering at any PPA event. Registration is a nightmare - slow and tedious. Then that perennial complaint - the port-a-loo situation. Perhaps the person who organises the potties for the PPA is anally retentive, perhaps they're just miserly in the fiscus but there are never enough toilets at the PPA events. I don't mind queuing for a little while - exchanging a few chirps with others to settle the chilly pre-race jitters, but when there are 6 toilets for a crowd of 600, early in the morning, all with the peristaltic stimulant caffeine in their systems, a 28 minute wait is unacceptable. Fortunately the desire to process the 450bucks a pop late entries balanced the time constraints of a 6:30 start and so I was able to relieve myself, using the last of the toilet paper in the one cubicle that still had. By that stage I was in an even k@kier frame of mind and gave the next oke in the queue a rueful smile as I joined group G. The PPA does not impress me at all at their races. The marshalls at the start of course must check every person's kit and number, and one very kind one pinned the bottom left safety pin back in place for me but this kind of attention to detail can be irksome. As GHI crammed into the lane in front of the blue mat, facing directly into the sun, with latecomers trying to squash in in front, one of the marshalls was shouting to another that one rider had his number on upside down - which galvanised his colleague into action. As he did so we were off and people were joining from the side as the group set off directly into the blinding sun. A dangerous situation but so long as the numbers are all the right way around we'll all be OK. Black mood indeed. We set off at a cracking pace down the hill, did my fastest ever 40k for the first 40 and managed to just hold on even though the lightest gradient made my legs protest. The bike marshalling was, as usual, excellent - our chap helped cars overtake us, kept the group in order, safely enforced the "left of the white line" rule. A pleasure to have such an expert chaperone. Thank you. Predictably I got dropped at the foot of Bothmaskloof - soldiered up the hill, tried to stay with a group of stragglers for 20k but by this stage my legs were finished. Cycling teaches many things - perseverence, stamina, endurance, the ability to accept suffering and while I'm still a beginner, I've done enough races to know that 20k into the wind alone with sore legs threatening to cramp is not so bad. In fact, quite enjoyable. But by all that's holy PPA - I'll accept your slow admin, the officiousness and bureaucracy that accompanies the stuff you do but please please please can we have 10 more potties?
Sidmouth Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 Mamil. I do lots of these races, and I have never seen such a bit turn out, the late registration demand was massive, maybe it was the wind yesterday and folk decided to do this race, who knows.PPA has no ways of knowing who is going to rock up on the morning and if you take the law of averages i dont think they had any way of knowing it would be any different Pre-entries can help with planing ahead., also, I stand to be corrected but the pre-entry was like R250.00
Skubarra Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 Mamil. I do lots of these races, and I have never seen such a bit turn out, the late registration demand was massive, maybe it was the wind yesterday and folk decided to do this race, who knows.PPA has no ways of knowing who is going to rock up on the morning and if you take the law of averages i dont think they had any way of knowing it would be any different Pre-entries can help with planing ahead., also, I stand to be corrected but the pre-entry was like R250.00 Well yes, the turnout was massive. However the longest queues was for registration for pre-entries not so much the late entries & PPA would have known before today how many people are expected to pitch up given the online entries. There are so many things they could have done to avoid this and I was seriously annoyed this morning. Spent 30min queuing and missed my starting group (and my last chance to sneak in a good Argus seeding), but given how my luck just deserted me at every single PPA race this season I guess another mishap was to be expected. Rode in D bunch. Our bunch completely scattered on the Koopmans climb. After the climb a small bunch of about 8 formed who managed to stay ahead of the rest of D and even cought the back half of B-C bunch shortly before the finish. So all-in-all a lekker day on the bike.
Mamil Posted January 28, 2018 Posted January 28, 2018 The registration is a problem at many of the events - the WACT ride last year was a nghtmare in this regard with the same port-a-loo problem. Today there was one desk with three "cashier" points - one devoted to late entries and two processing pre-entries - the queue for pre-entries went back about 60 meters when I finally got my sticker and walked to the toilet queue. It's not good enough and I don't believe that "we didn't know how many people would come" is a valid excuse. Anyway, it was still a good ride - one of these days I'll actually stick with my batch over the hill, hopefully before I'm over the hill. Mamil. I do lots of these races, and I have never seen such a bit turn out, the late registration demand was massive, maybe it was the wind yesterday and folk decided to do this race, who knows.PPA has no ways of knowing who is going to rock up on the morning and if you take the law of averages i dont think they had any way of knowing it would be any different Pre-entries can help with planing ahead., also, I stand to be corrected but the pre-entry was like R250.00
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