[Event] Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg Road

[Faces Advendurance]

Event Name: Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg Road
When: 17/11/2024
Where: FNB Stadium, Johannesburg South, Gauteng
Category: Road

Experience the richness, contrasts, colours and sounds of the City of Joburg by being a part of the prestigious Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg. Be electrified and vitalised by soaking up the energy around you. Then let it translate to your legs to turn the pedals of your bicycle. Go fast or go slow. Ride for a Purpose greater than yourself. Or chase down a personal best. Join the Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg journey that will ultimately lead to fitness, friendship, health and happiness. It is, after all, impossible to be sad while riding a bicycle. Celebrate life, cycling and our favourite city – the City of Johannesburg.

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[mecheng89]

Elevate your Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg experience like never before with the launch of the Ride Joburg Portal next month. Gain access to all your past event results, unlock unique Badges based on your Ride Joburg achievements, check your entries for upcoming events, manage your 2024 batch and expected finish time, and much more! Stay tuned for this mobile-first web app, coming your way for testing at the end of March.

Feedback from our valued 2023 Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg participants suggested that we could do better with our seeding, so we are making seeding one of our key improvement areas in 2024.  We have taken significant steps to ensure a more accurate seeding for participants in 2024, such as an increased weighting of your 2022 and 2023 Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg results in seeding calculations, sourcing of more road cycling results to count towards seeding, and batch communication through the Ride Joburg Portal will be earlier and more comprehensive.  We're committed to ensuring a fair and seamless seeding process, along with bigger batches and earlier start times - we hope you’ll be joining us in 2024!

You spoke, and we listened! We're thrilled to announce exciting updates for cycling clubs and groups this year. Clubs and teams will now have exclusive access to book demarcated gazebo spots, offering prime views overlooking the finish line, accompanied by a variety of delicious food and refreshing drinks available for purchase. Additionally, we invite you to join our Cycling Club Captain's initiative launching in April, fostering camaraderie and support within the cycling community. Furthermore, we are elevating our Train Joburg initiative in collaboration with Virgin Active to provide safe training in their gyms, and outride options for all participants. We look forward to working more closely with cycling clubs and teams in 2024, to enhance the experience for all!

[The Ouzo]

35 minutes ago, mecheng89 said:

Elevate your Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg experience like never before with the launch of the Ride Joburg Portal next month. Gain access to all your past event results, unlock unique Badges based on your Ride Joburg achievements, check your entries for upcoming events, manage your 2024 batch and expected finish time, and much more! Stay tuned for this mobile-first web app, coming your way for testing at the end of March.

Feedback from our valued 2023 Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg participants suggested that we could do better with our seeding, so we are making seeding one of our key improvement areas in 2024.  We have taken significant steps to ensure a more accurate seeding for participants in 2024, such as an increased weighting of your 2022 and 2023 Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg results in seeding calculations, sourcing of more road cycling results to count towards seeding, and batch communication through the Ride Joburg Portal will be earlier and more comprehensive.  We're committed to ensuring a fair and seamless seeding process, along with bigger batches and earlier start times - we hope you’ll be joining us in 2024!

You spoke, and we listened! We're thrilled to announce exciting updates for cycling clubs and groups this year. Clubs and teams will now have exclusive access to book demarcated gazebo spots, offering prime views overlooking the finish line, accompanied by a variety of delicious food and refreshing drinks available for purchase. Additionally, we invite you to join our Cycling Club Captain's initiative launching in April, fostering camaraderie and support within the cycling community. Furthermore, we are elevating our Train Joburg initiative in collaboration with Virgin Active to provide safe training in their gyms, and outride options for all participants. We look forward to working more closely with cycling clubs and teams in 2024, to enhance the experience for all!

also received it yesterday, 3 times.

Great that they are at least working on things, lets see how well they are executed. 

[The Ouzo]

So 10 weeks to go, is it to soon to start talking about the goodie bags  

 

I see at least they are offering the photos for free this time

[Dexter-morgan]

Going to do a cruise this year on my Gravel/hybrid bike - aiming to do a solid 6 hours.

[Chadvdw67]

16 hours ago, The Ouzo said:

So 10 weeks to go, is it to soon to start talking about the goodie bags  

 

I see at least they are offering the photos for free this time

To early to start checking weather forecasts?

[The Ouzo]

2 hours ago, Chadvdw67 said:

To early to start checking weather forecasts?

There will be weather that day for sure.

 

Hopefully the weather gods smile on us again this year, I'm aiming to take 17 minutes off my previous time.

[The Ouzo]

3 hours ago, Dexter-morgan said:

Going to do a cruise this year on my Gravel/hybrid bike - aiming to do a solid 6 hours.

are you planning on walking it ? or stopping at every coffee shop along the way ?

you've got a 3 hour 947 in those legs 

[Dexter-morgan]

1 minute ago, The Ouzo said:

are you planning on walking it ? or stopping at every coffee shop along the way ?

you've got a 3 hour 947 in those legs 

Going to do it on the MTB, help others and stop for every beer and tequila stop.

[Frosty]

• I will enter around the closing date for online entries.
• I will most likely ride with the same friends I ride with on weekends; maybe be their domestique.
• I definitely won't be racing, but we all know what happens when a race number is pinned on.
• I'm training as if I will be racing in the semi-serious bunches even though it's the "non-serious" year in the 4-year cycle.
• I will most likely change my mind within the next 10-weeks, as there is no firm goal other than to take part, finish upright and have fun.
• If the weather is wet = 29x2.3 tyres > 25mm, and if it's dry, the trusty steel steed, (with 700C-25 tyres) will be used again, like I have done every year since 2016.

[NotSoBigBen]

My brother will be over from the land of the long white cloud. Him, myself and my son will be riding .... just stick together and have fun!

The opportunities for riding together are dwindling so gotta make the most of it 😎

 

[Ispeed_V]

Another fun day out for me (#15).

Coffee stop in Bryanston with the old folks.

Beer in Dunkeld and then vasbyt to the end

[The Ouzo]

I'm looking for the start batch times for last year, does anyone have a link or have them handy ?

[Bike Dewing]

Registered to the portal today.. 

about a minute and a half before i broke it.. its staying broken as well.. 😳😳🤣🤣

[Sandro]

 

15 hours ago, Bike Dewing said:

Registered to the portal today.. 

about a minute and a half before i broke it.. its staying broken as well.. 😳😳🤣🤣

The new portal is a complete dog show. Always trying to be fancy and stuff things up. Simpler is better.

[Bike Dewing]

On 10/3/2024 at 8:31 AM, Sandro said:

 

The new portal is a complete dog show. Always trying to be fancy and stuff things up. Simpler is better.

Yeah theres all these things that were just not loading that arent that interesting anyway.🤷🏼‍♂️ should launch two or three solid features.. it could literally be one page with just my batch and start time, maybe a button to log a seeding query.. that would have been sick..

everything else is w@$kery