[Event] Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg Road

[NotSoBigBen]

I know I entered quite late but .... no start time or anything yet

Anyone else?

[agilwolf]

I have my "provisional" seeding and start time, it was emailed and sent via WA on 11 September ...

 

Also log onto Pursuit Africa, go to the events tab, look at the top row to see your seeding.

Edited October 10, 2025 by agilwolf
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['Kaze Pete]

No idea on starting time or speed, but here goes; 32km/h starting at 07:00

[NotSoBigBen]

5 hours ago, agilwolf said:

I have my "provisional" seeding and start time, it was emailed and sent via WA on 11 September ...

 

Also log onto Pursuit Africa, go to the events tab, look at the top row to see your seeding.

I entered after the seeding time so I'm guessing even knowing my seeding won't help me much 🤔

Edited October 10, 2025 by NotSoBigBen

['Kaze Pete]

I responded to an Advendurance message, and was emailed my starting time & batch.
It'll be an early morning for me

[NotSoBigBen]

On 10/10/2025 at 4:23 PM, NotSoBigBen said:

I entered after the seeding time so I'm guessing even knowing my seeding won't help me much 🤔

Mailed them this morning, got my start time just now

Earlier than I expected, chuffed with that 😎

[Guest Mike Dewing]

8 minutes ago, NotSoBigBen said:

Mailed them this morning, got my start time just now

Earlier than I expected, chuffed with that 😎

About 30 minutes earlier.?! I’m 30 minutes earlier and so are a lot I speak to.. hope uts not poor attendance numbers.. but probably is

[agilwolf]

41 minutes ago, Mike Dewing said:

About 30 minutes earlier.?! I’m 30 minutes earlier and so are a lot I speak to.. hope uts not poor attendance numbers.. but probably is

...  late entries can still be done on the 25th ...  Definitely low numbers...  I was bumped up into the License Groups, it is going to hurt ...

[Sandro]

Anyone in E bunch?

[Guest Mike Dewing]

1 hour ago, agilwolf said:

...  late entries can still be done on the 25th ...  Definitely low numbers...  I was bumped up into the License Groups, it is going to hurt ...

Yassis.. I’m actually keen because I’m not even nearly prepared so a little less heat with a early start is welcome 🤷🏼‍♂️🤣 I’m in for a suffer fest.. ☠️

[RobynE 🚵‍♀️]

I hope you will all wave when you come past us while we’re suffering up to Kyalami on the tandem. We have a 06:30 start. 

Actually you’ll probably come past us at the first slight incline, so wave to us just before Main Reef Road 😂 

[Dexter-morgan]

21 hours ago, Sandro said:

Anyone in E bunch?

You can fall back to F and join me.

[Dexter-morgan]

Is this event busy fading away? 12000 riders as per e-mail and entries available day before the race?

[NotSoBigBen]

1 hour ago, Dexter-morgan said:

Is this event busy fading away? 12000 riders as per e-mail and entries available day before the race?

Maybe a combination of 'fading' and the change of date 🤔

[NotSoBigBen]

Actually, having given this some thought I wonder if the bike industry is the cause of the 'fading' numbers at events .... specifically road

Hear me out for a minute, by creating so many different categories of bikes and hence events then there will clearly be less at each type of event

Gravel, enduro, up country, down country, 32" uber circus bikes, 'motorised' bikes in all of these categories.... 'huge' travel bikes that can be used in downhill and XCO

But anyway here we are, ramblings of a 'timer as my neighbours woke kids call me

['Kaze Pete]

Earliest start time I’m ever going to attempt… 5:55

means more head wind than starting at 7:00