Where has your bike taken you today?

[WrightJnr]

 

 

Nothing but desert and camels.... For those in South Africa, appreciate all those beautiful trails you have!!

[BSG]

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Surely those corrugations can chip the enamel off your teeth on a rigid bike like yours. [emoji44][emoji23]

[Bosman]

Hot and dusty day out at Wolwespruit

[The Ouzo]

One of those days, no rhythm, no power, no lungs.

['Dale]

One of those days, no rhythm, no power, no lungs.

 

Yet, 2 hours in the saddle is always better than 0 hrs in the saddle.

Lekka, man.

[Thomo]

One of those days, no rhythm, no power, no lungs.

Sometimes it's best to listen to your body.

Sit up, ride easy, appreciate the outdoors and fight another day.

[Vetseun]

One of those days, no rhythm, no power, no lungs.

Sounds like all my rides.

Kudos for pushing through for 2 hours

[Frosty]

I’m trying to upload my ride from next Saturday, but I’m having some problems. Anyone know how to upload a ride from the future? [emoji1787][emoji1787]

[Reme Le Hane]

I’m trying to upload my ride from next Saturday, but I’m having some problems. Anyone know how to upload a ride from the future? [emoji1787][emoji1787]

It was a typo I’m sure, once you follow the link they ask to link your strava for the future upload.

[PhilipV]

Never thought of riding the stump!!

 

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I took one look at that landing and decided that the stump was a better idea.

[Bernard Horn]

Went fishing along Wildernis beach

[capediver]

Free mobile repair service at the Doha Olympic cycle track!

[RustyHWR]

Surely those corrugations can chip the enamel off your teeth on a rigid bike like yours. [emoji44][emoji23]

Lol, think i lost some teeth.

[The Ouzo]

Sometimes it's best to listen to your body.

Sit up, ride easy, appreciate the outdoors and fight another day.

the idea was to do a long slow one, so I tried as much as I could to keep the effort down.

It did help having a tail wind heading home.

[NotSoBigBen]

Great riding weather lately on the Highveld but damn the wind is starting to wear me down... Since I'm generally going out towards the south and back it's almost always (no not almost, every single frikkin time) a headwind coming back [emoji53]

 

Ja ja I know it's good 'training' but just a little break would be nice [emoji12]

[TyronLab]

With the Transbaviaans 19 weeks away it was time to start my training in earnest. I've got the endurance portion pretty much under control, but with our goal time of 12 hours I'll need to focus on my climbing speed and consistency a lot. Luckily, I scoped out a great training hill at Thaba the last time I was there. While its only 800m long, it has 90m of vertical ascent, with the last 200m being at 16% average gradient, mostly jeep track with the steep bit paved. Perfect for Fangs and MAC training!

 

I had the rough goal of doing 1000m of elevation gain, so I set out to do 10x reps. What I didn't consider though was that I'd done a moderate roadie ride on Wednesday, a quick roadie ride on Thursday and ran a PB 5k of 25:14 on Friday, so when I woke up on Saturday my legs were pretty stiff already. Thaba's bokkies made the warmup nice and pleasant and kept my spirits high on the way to the climb:

 

 

And some fun descending gave me the adrenaline shot I needed to get to the climb feeling great:

 

 

I had never ridden this climb all the way to the top with the steep bit included, and only realised on my first rep that the mix of gradient and stiff legs meant I had to stand and grind it up there.... ten times. I felt good for the first two, OK for the middle six, but absolutely demolished by the last two. I feel sorry for whoever saw me doing the last rep as I was grinding it up there, grunting, hoesing, poeping, swerving, anything but walking.

 

I had a sit down and tried to capture the ascent with this photo. Right at the top, feeling absolutely busted after riding just 30km (with 1000m climbed though).

 

 

Still a few trails to explore at Thaba, but once again proved to be ridiculous amounts of fun! 

 

Edited September 14, 2020 by TyronLab