the unofficial Cape Epic thread

[babse]

Dont think any questions are on Matt and his ability 😅

 

We all convinced!!! 

[Jbr]

12 minutes ago, Shebeen said:

This is not over, and if nothing else Matt Beers looks super fit (at least in the finish interview after hauling ass for 60km).

 

New sponsor needed

[DieselnDust]

6 hours ago, Michael S said:

Swenson struggling. 
Beers said in the interview he spent all day on the front and Keegan is having issues his back and it is becoming "a bit concerning"
Reckon he left it a bit late with coming out to SA, might still be acclimatising, hopefully he comes into it a bit as the race goes on. He was stil crit racing in the US on the 7th of March.

I think my concerns about Swenson are justified. It’s not going to get easier and he is struggling. His  form just isn’t there

[DieselnDust]

5 hours ago, J Wakefield said:

I would not bet your house on that information being accurate or anything valuable as a reference. 

He arrived almost two weeks before the event. I bumped into he and Matt out riding

[babse]

2 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

I think my concerns about Swenson are justified. It’s not going to get easier and he is struggling. His  form just isn’t there

you early today...

[Jbr]

3 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

He arrived almost two weeks before the event. I bumped into he and Matt out riding

he was at valley of tears the 7th of march, where he didn't place well btw, how could he be here two weeks ago ?

[DieselnDust]

You’re probably right. I think it was last Tuesday.  I’m a bit heat stroked.

[DieselnDust]

@babse

ya stupidly hot ride today. At the 45km water I swear I saw Jesus. I just could not drink enough. 
course was super sandy with heat radiating from the ground up. 
camp site is on a stretch of land covered in thorns . It’s super *** aka epic.

Edited 11 hours ago by DieselnDust

[babse]

1 minute ago, DieselnDust said:

You’re probably right. I think it was last Tuesday.  I’m a bit heat stroked.

are you tenting and is there enough bottled water in village?

[DieselnDust]

6 minutes ago, babse said:

are you tenting and is there enough bottled water in village?

Yip

not enough water

Wi-Fi is intermittent 

charging points are over subscribed 

camp site is dusty and covered in duiwel doorns.

showers work intermittently 

it’s all epic man

[Prince Albert Cycles]

15 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

Yip

not enough water

Wi-Fi is intermittent 

charging points are over subscribed 

camp site is dusty and covered in duiwel doorns.

showers work intermittently 

it’s all epic man

These conditions don’t come cheap…

[SamTaylor]

Somebody needs to be drawn and quartered for firstly choosing this site as a race village and then also for the piss poor layout of the race village.

starting to get the idea the accountants had a lot more say than the people on the ground when making these calls. 

[MongooseMan]

Stage 3 apparently shortened 

 90km → 78km, 2600m → 2450m. Updates on Water Points, Cut-offs & Start Times will be in the Stage 3 Route Briefing.

[karma]

4 minutes ago, MongooseMan said:

Stage 3 apparently shortened 

 90km → 78km, 2600m → 2450m. Updates on Water Points, Cut-offs & Start Times will be in the Stage 3 Route Briefing.

Ironman influence spreading....

[babse]

Given the amount of nwebs, probably the right call? 

Sun will still claim plenty a folk i reckon...

[MongooseMan]

I was in the medic tent this afternoon, they had a conveyor belt of kidney function tests running (i failed mine 🙈) and they were shipping every second person off to hospital.

and that was today, the “shorter, not as hot” day. Tomorrow, at full length, would likely have ended with some really bad stories.