Cape Town Cycle Tour 2022

[The Ouzo]

Just now, Jase619 said:

Opening your parachute. . . .

pretty much

[The Ouzo]

14 minutes ago, Jbr said:

it's a bit different than that and I think that's why it's so difficult to stay in the front group till the end.

You pretty much have one all out VO2 max effort up Edinburg, then Smits is a 9-10mins effort in total but in 2021 it just started going fast on the last 4 mins so still technically a VO2 max effort, but if this year it goes like we've done Bothman's a few times in the last few months, it could be a 10 mins effort with a very very hard last couple minutes...

And chappies is a very hard 2 mins into a very hard 4 mins, but all in all you don't get to recover at all between little chappies and the main climb....

That's why I'm mostly working on my 10 mins efforts rather than very specific 4/5 mins efforts at the moment, also because there's tour du cap before and it has longer climbs as well...

in 2021 50% of the time I was in Zone 4 and close to 30% of the time in Zone 5, there wasnt really much more to give

[Jase619]

Just now, ouzo said:

in 2021 50% of the time I was in Zone 4 and close to 30% of the time in Zone 5, there wasnt really much more to give

If you have good climbing ability, people tend to forget what damage the few climbs on Argus can take on your average speed. 

 

Doesn't help you can keep an average of 35 everywhere else, but on the climbs it tanks. Those couple of Kms of climbing destroy whatever average you had before that.

[The Ouzo]

1 minute ago, Jase619 said:

If you have good climbing ability, people tend to forget what damage the few climbs on Argus can take on your average speed. 

 

Doesn't help you can keep an average of 35 everywhere else, but on the climbs it tanks. Those couple of Kms of climbing destroy whatever average you had before that.

correct, I was at mid 30s at smits, dropped to high 20s by the time I finished suikers, but having the fitness last year I was able to put my head down and pick it up to high 29s by the finish.

Thats why the goal for this years fitness is more hills, so by 2023 I'll be a stronger climber.

[Skubarra]

2 hours ago, ouzo said:

yeah that was rather sneeky. I suspect there are some politics at play with 947.

What it means is the only seeding race I did for this years CTCT was last years CTCT.

Racetec is/was owned by the Cycle Tour. 94.7 organisers dropped them as time timekeepers

So I guess its both politics and the practicalities of loading 1000s of records from another IT system purely for a seeding run.

If you had a good 94.7 I'm sure you can still use that at registration to ask for a better seeding.

[FootballingCyclist]

Maybe I've missed it but have 1 of you legendary okes created the Google Drive Spreadsheet like last year where we can enter our hub name and start group and whatever else we entered?

[FootballingCyclist]

On 2/12/2022 at 8:57 PM, Mamil said:

1B .

I feel a curious mixture of pride, disbelief, knowledge that the system is wonky and outright fear.

 

Can THIS year be the year that I put the tow rope on your seapost you you pull me all the way up Mandela Blvrd and then Edinbrough Please, as this plan never quite worked out last year.

Edited February 14, 2022 by FootballingCyclist

[Jbr]

19 minutes ago, FootballingCyclist said:

Maybe I've missed it but have 1 of you legendary okes created the Google Drive Spreadsheet like last year where we can enter our hub name and start group and whatever else we entered?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l4B2Xq82upIWEVdwkcFXDqAAacBFETYD1BoGPMMWRyM/edit#gid=333847939

[MongooseMan]

29 minutes ago, FootballingCyclist said:

Maybe I've missed it but have 1 of you legendary okes created the Google Drive Spreadsheet like last year where we can enter our hub name and start group and whatever else we entered?

 

9 minutes ago, Jbr said:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l4B2Xq82upIWEVdwkcFXDqAAacBFETYD1BoGPMMWRyM/edit#gid=333847939

Ok, here's one for 2022:
https://forms.gle/MAHydbSUTsYtuj8i9

Results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TEW2E8XN15H2BYoizjc1Ai_bdZUZOoTgd9upzngrpUU/edit?usp=sharing

[DieselnDust]

25 minutes ago, Jbr said:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l4B2Xq82upIWEVdwkcFXDqAAacBFETYD1BoGPMMWRyM/edit#gid=333847939

the 2021 spreadshet is incomplete. No actual times captured #semanet

[Jbr]

10 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

the 2021 spreadshet is incomplete. No actual times captured #semanet

you can comment here or in the spreadsheet and I'll update

[The Ouzo]

38 minutes ago, Jbr said:

you can comment here or in the spreadsheet and I'll update

spreadsheet wont allow edits

 

actual time was 3:41

[Jbr]

4 minutes ago, ouzo said:

spreadsheet wont allow edits

 

actual time was 3:41

yeah I kind of didn't want to allow edits to avoid people changing other peoples data, but looks like most people don't know how to comment spreadsheets

[DJR]

3 hours ago, ouzo said:

yeah, I'm wondering how I'm going to get from 3:40 to under 3:30. The only place I can think of to make up the time is the hills. But I've left the hill training a little late.

"A Good Day" will get you that improvement  without any effort.🙂

[The Ouzo]

31 minutes ago, Jbr said:

yeah I kind of didn't want to allow edits to avoid people changing other peoples data, but looks like most people don't know how to comment spreadsheets

guilty. (although I didnt even try)

[The Ouzo]

30 minutes ago, DJR said:

"A Good Day" will get you that improvement  without any effort.🙂

2021 was a good day by all accounts. I need a great day