The Munga 2019

[Zatopek]

I will cover the late night shift from here

 

Britstown (and the mens record) is looming 45km ahead..

[MORNE]

Lol love how RB practically insinuates he got beaten by the heatwave instead of his competitors.

 

Its the same for everybody, difference being that the local boys know how hot it can get and pace themselves probably. He cant underestimate them

probably knowing he was going too hard too fast.

 

Ps: theres a saying in motorsport:

to finish first...first you must finish

Edited November 28, 2019 by morneS555

[MORNE]

also...see LM also scratched. wonder if he decided to call it a day when he got told he'd have to redo a huge chunk of the course if he wants to continue. ouch

[MORNE]

first lady JS is killing it at the moment. 

Edited November 28, 2019 by morneS555

[Shebeen]

is it against the rules to get a text or call that you are WAAAAYYYYY off course?not that i assume there is any signal in any case. How would the race organisers know? just asking for real. talking about LM in this instance

 

edit: AND - do they have to backtrack and get back on course where they left? in LM's case they are actually going the long way assuming they take a left in the not to distant future. AVD now too it seems.

Munga race have a long history of pick and choosing which rules to use and ignore.

[eddy]

also...see LM also scratched. wonder if he decided to call it a day when he got told he'd have to redo a huge chunk of the course if he wants to continue. ouch

 

And it looks like Nico Coetzee is in a vehicle, and that Graham Brooks took a wrong turning just before 1 this morning and has been putting in the miles off course since then.

 

Edit: I see that GB rode into Fauresmith about 10km after leaving the course. I wonder if it is sleep deprivation, or GPS issues, or what that led  him not to recognise that there shouldn't have been a town at that point of the race.

Edited November 28, 2019 by eddy

[MORNE]

temps for Beaufort west Karoo area predicted to be around 44*C again today....and 39*C tommorow. today is going to be suer tough. i think alot of dots will be parking around 10am to wait the heat out.

[Vetseun]

I see Ramrod here on the hub is also out.

[avatar]

What happened to myles?

[Shebeen]

Lol love how RB practically insinuates he got beaten by the heatwave instead of his competitors.

 

Its the same for everybody, difference being that the local boys know how hot it can get and pace themselves probably. He cant underestimate them

probably knowing he was going too hard too fast.

 

Ps: theres a saying in motorsport:

to finish first...first you must finish

Don't really agree with you here. He's the record holder and would have been following his own race strategy.

 

He probably underestimated the effect of the heat, and if he was at all acclimatised from the Dutch winter to the Karoo hitte

[River Rat]

So 14 scratched and it looks like NC and GB are out as well. AAs tracker has him all over the place so he might be out as well. That's more than 10% of the field gone and we still haven't finished a full day, it must have been brutal out there.

 

Edit: I see there are another 4 riders QO,WM, WV and KC in cars on their way to De Aar.

Edited November 28, 2019 by River Rat

[MORNE]

Don't really agree with you here. He's the record holder and would have been following his own race strategy.

 

He probably underestimated the effect of the heat, and if he was at all acclimatised from the Dutch winter to the Karoo hitte

 

maybe lost in translation perhaps.

it's just the way he said it in his post.....of being 30 min ahead of the competition etc etc as in "i was murdering them and they weren't going to beat me but the heat beat me instead"

[MORNE]

KB pushing for WP6 for around 10/11? his pitstops are fast. 

[JohanDiv]

So 14 scratched and it looks like NC and GB are out as well. AAs tracker has him all over the place so he might be out as well. That's more than 10% of the field gone and we still haven't finished a full day, it must have been brutal out there.

 

Edit: I see there are another 4 riders QO,WM, WV and KC in cars on their way to De Aar.

Now even more..that's 15% of the field gone already! A lot of guys scratching at RV1

[JohanDiv]

Another dot I'm following with great interest is MK, Madeleen Kotze. She's a local lady here from Paarl and she likes her endurance challenges. A few weeks ago she also completed an Everest attempt outside Gordonsbay. Currently still moving at 220km just before RV1. Wonder how long she'll stop there, the Cut-Off dot is not that far behind her group of riders.

[Slowbee]

It looks like a few people slept at the dam.

 

Things must have been chaos.

 

What are the stops like for you guys that have done this?