947 Cycle Challenge 2019

[Ozzie NL]

Seems they canned the social tandems category.

 

Riding with 13y old daughter and been seeded in D batch (normally get A batch seeding).

 

Thankful for early start as it is gonna be a loooong day with beer and ice cream stops

[Ashchest]

GG  08:49   -watch your backs!        

[Ramrod]

GG  08:49   -watch your backs!        

Thats the spirit!!

[bored girl]

Eish

 

Thanks, when I entered, I did a double check, never got the option to choose???

 

How it used to be in the past was, that you'd enter normally without a cat, then the people that do the seeding will decide if you made the cut or not. The elite/vet/ladies categories are not very big so you need to be allocated to them. A batch was like a very big overflow group. You could also find people that normally ride elites in the A batch in the past. And sometimes when you want to ride open, you get allocated to a vets bunch.  

[Dude Crush]

GG 08:49 -watch your backs!

Great! Maybe i can ride with you on my 2nd loop....

[Ashchest]

Great! Maybe i can ride with you on my 2nd loop....

 

Bring some snacks! 

[Dexter-morgan]

GG  08:49   -watch your backs!        

If my wife does not get a better seeding after the carnival city Macsteel, I will see you there, trying to pass most, Maybe I should get a bell.

[Ashchest]

 Maybe I should get a bell.

 

I thought about this - seriaas 

[Underachiever]

How it used to be in the past was, that you'd enter normally without a cat, then the people that do the seeding will decide if you made the cut or not. The elite/vet/ladies categories are not very big so you need to be allocated to them. A batch was like a very big overflow group. You could also find people that normally ride elites in the A batch in the past. And sometimes when you want to ride open, you get allocated to a vets bunch.  

Very much used to this. :-)  I should make the Vets group easily if they looked at my race results.

[scotty]

How it used to be in the past was, that you'd enter normally without a cat, then the people that do the seeding will decide if you made the cut or not. The elite/vet/ladies categories are not very big so you need to be allocated to them. A batch was like a very big overflow group. You could also find people that normally ride elites in the A batch in the past. And sometimes when you want to ride open, you get allocated to a vets bunch.  

Happened to me one 947 where I was bumped up to Vets even though I only held cycling membership and not license, no ways was i going to ride there. 

[Spinnekop]

Interesting - when I entered, it did not give me an option to enter for the Vets race groups.

 

See I'm seeded in A group.

 

Did they cancel the Vets race groups?

In big events like this they seed the Vets.  Thus only top 100? 150? 200? gets in the V groups and the rest gest thrown in the alphabet soup.

[RobertWhitehead]

I thought the Trapnet was the last seeding event that accounted to the 94.7? I read it somewhere

 

 

If my wife does not get a better seeding after the carnival city Macsteel, I will see you there, trying to pass most, Maybe I should get a bell.

[Dexter-morgan]

I thought the Trapnet was the last seeding event that accounted to the 94.7? I read it somewhere

If you do an event longer than 90KM, you just need to pay the R200 then, they will look at the time and reseed.

[RobertWhitehead]

Oooooo ok, you can see I'm not used to the black stuff and all the rules to get a better seeding 

 

If you do an event longer than 90KM, you just need to pay the R200 then, they will look at the time and reseed.

[Underachiever]

In big events like this they seed the Vets.  Thus only top 100? 150? 200? gets in the V groups and the rest gest thrown in the alphabet soup.

Had a interesting e-mail conversation with race office.  They look at seeding index, and seeding index alone. 

 

But numbers are a funny thing, and this year it has counted against me. I missed the break last year in VE, 7 min down on winner, but still came in close to top 30.  Seeding index just over 14.95

 

I missed most races in Q1 - Q2 after a nasty fall in Gauteng Champs. So no opportunity to better my index.

 

VE index cut off is 14.95.  Over that, you are in the alphabet soup.

 

The irony is that A group rode 8 min faster than VE last year.

 

Oh well, we are just fun riders after all.

 

Eish!!!

[Frosty]

Had a interesting e-mail conversation with race office.  They look at seeding index, and seeding index alone. 

 

But numbers are a funny thing, and this year it has counted against me. I missed the break last year in VE, 7 min down on winner, but still came in close to top 30.  Seeding index just over 14.95

 

I missed most races in Q1 - Q2 after a nasty fall in Gauteng Champs. So no opportunity to better my index.

 

VE index cut off is 14.95.  Over that, you are in the alphabet soup.

 

The irony is that A group rode 8 min faster than VE last year.

 

Oh well, we are just fun riders after all.

 

Eish!!!

 

Had a interesting e-mail conversation with race office.  They look at seeding index, and seeding index alone. 

 

But numbers are a funny thing, and this year it has counted against me. I missed the break last year in VE, 7 min down on winner, but still came in close to top 30.  Seeding index just over 14.95

 

I missed most races in Q1 - Q2 after a nasty fall in Gauteng Champs. So no opportunity to better my index.

 

VE index cut off is 14.95.  Over that, you are in the alphabet soup.

 

The irony is that A group rode 8 min faster than VE last year.

 

Oh well, we are just fun riders after all.

 

Eish!!!

If you ride in A, I'll ride with you... for as long as I can, like last year.