Training routes near UCT

[BigDaddySpilz]

Hi everyone

 

I'm looking for a 40KM and a 80KM route leaving from Lower Campus UCT. I would do the 40KM route during the week and the 80KM route on the weekends. I'd aim to leave around 5:30. Please let me know about any routes.

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Road or Mountain ?

[Dirt Tracker]

Hi everyone

 

I'm looking for a 40KM and a 80KM route leaving from Lower Campus UCT. I would do the 40KM route during the week and the 80KM route on the weekends. I'd aim to leave around 5:30. Please let me know about any routes.

 

Road or dirt? 

[OneLove]

Snap

[Dirt Tracker]

40 or 80 times around the UCT XCO track? 

[BigDaddySpilz]

Road please. MTB scares the hell out of me

[BigDaddySpilz]

I'm pretty scared of taxis

[wolf182]

Road route mapping from your location should be easy but taxi avoidance will be tricky.

Perhaps mention how much climbing/elevation you want to include

[BigDaddySpilz]

Im not too fussed about elevation. The more the merrier I guess. I just want some routes that are fairly safe.

[Dadbod Racing]

Hi everyone

 

I'm looking for a 40KM and a 80KM route leaving from Lower Campus UCT. I would do the 40KM route during the week and the 80KM route on the weekends. I'd aim to leave around 5:30. Please let me know about any routes.

 

From Lower Campus, up Klipper Rd which will take you to Newlands avenue then go up Constantia Nek? Not sure what the distance is but you could also play around in the Constantia area to add distance to your ride?

[Roguemeister]

If you're a student / staff of uct join the uct cycling club, they are quite active and can help with routes

[Grayskull]

From Lower Campus, up Klipper Rd which will take you to Newlands avenue then go up Constantia Nek? Not sure what the distance is but you could also play around in the Constantia area to add distance to your ride?

 

Then down into Hout Bay and up Suikerbossie and along into Camps Bay & Sea Point and back - thats about 50km

 

OR

from the Nek to hout bay over chappies 

Then either Black hill (preferable) or Ou Kaapse Weg

and back along Main road or Spaanschemat River Road (M42)

Thats about 90km

[BigDaddySpilz]

Thanks! I am a student at UCT.

[BigDaddySpilz]

Thanks, I've been up Constantia Nek coming from Constantia to Newlands. It was full of cars when I did it but that was around 9.

[Dadbod Racing]

Thanks! I am a student at UCT.

 

Shouldn't you be dodging class and drinking beer? 

[Dadbod Racing]

Thanks, I've been up Constantia Nek coming from Constantia to Newlands. It was full of cars when I did it but that was around 9.

 

You need to do it as early as possible. It's a main route to the M3. I used to do it most week mornings after 5am and it was very quiet. Any later and you'd get the early birds going to work trying to beat the rest of the traffic.