Alberton _ JHB South Riders

[Slave]

Yeah, yeah. yeah. Dude, I hear ya. I know I need to leave the lollies on the shelf in the pack, in the shops. It will help but it's not easy to kick a 30 year habit.

 

I never saw the Jens face plant until the highlights on MNET last night. That was not nice and I could almost feel his pain as though I was there having my own skin shaved from my body by the tar. It hurts me so much I think I need to check into high care myself.

 

Dude, I am training for Soweto round about now. Intervals is something I do not do enough of and it has been way too long since I had a hard training ride. Yesterdays ride was most enjoyable because it was a fairly hard session.

 

Teeny got on his bike for the first time in a month and he makes me work. HARD. Didn't realise just how soft and lazy I have been until yesterday.

 

Climbing Camaro helps build strength, so does the reserve. But I have sorely lacked any quality training for some time. Even that WWRR was something I never got the full benefit from.

 

I just kind of sauntered along. Maybe I have been too lazy, I dunno. I was certainly using the excuse that it was getting dark too early, but I have noticed the days are getting longer again. So doing slightly longer rides and ably to start pushing hard again.

 

I guess I fell into my own mindset trap of just turning legs through winter. But at least I have truned legs and have a halfway decent base on which to start building.

 

Soweto first, and then the assualt on 94.7.

[NotSoBigBen]

53 / 11 Ox.

 

It certainly opened my eyes to the realm of what is possible and what I previously believed impossible.

 

Before' date=' any speed over 60 and I stopped pedalling. It was simply too fast for me. Usually, those sort of speeds are only attainable on mine shaft type decents for me anyway. Swartkoppies was slightly downhill but what I found more interesting was that I could accelerate to get into the slip and then hold it.

 

My previous efforts were mostly a disaster because after the initial acceleration, I was too popped to be able to hold it for more than 10 seconds once I found the slip.

 

Also, I was quite happy that even after accelerating, and then holding the speed (albeit in a vacuum), I was not absolutely finished after I had pulled out of the slip. If anything, fear got me to give up the chase. Fear of the consequence of face planting at that speed or anything that could possibly have gone wrong causing me to crash.

 

 

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[Trubie]

Slave' date=' I must say that you were asking for that. [img']https://assets.bikehub.co.za/legacy_images/smilies/smiley1.gif[/img]

 

But that is good. Sounds like a good training session! What has your speedometer reached on the descent in SBR?

 

I was thinking that while I am riding at SBR on Sat I will profile a few of the climbs to get length, gradients etc. So which climbs do you think are the major ones.

Starting at N3 side and going round (put in some landmark names so that the route can be followed) I get the First Ascent (climb 1) then there is the Descent, the Dam, the Game Catchment (when I rode with Trubie the first time ther was some sort of game catchment going on in that area, hence the name), the Horse Shoe, Long Drag (climb 2-Think it is about 6%), Twisty Flats, Forgotten Hill (climb 3-named because Trubie forgot about it this last Sat), Karrekloof Gate, Bridge Mountain (climb 4), Final Climb (climb 5) and Cheetah Loop. Any other climbs worth mentioning/profiling?

 

Andy - I count 6 nasty climbs that is worth mentioning and profiling. This is confirmed by the route profile of the ride too.

4 on the section before the boom gate, and two on the way back

the two back is easiest to remember. The 4 on the other side would be the start, one more that i cannot remember the one after the dam ,forgotten one at the end

 

please keep us posted!

 

[Trubie]

Yeah' date=' yeah. yeah. Dude, I hear ya. I know I need to leave the lollies on the shelf in the pack, in the shops. It will help but it's not easy to kick a 30 year habit.

 

I never saw the Jens face plant until the highlights on MNET last night. That was not nice and I could almost feel his pain as though I was there having my own skin shaved from my body by the tar. It hurts me so much I think I need to check into high care myself.

 

Dude, I am training for Soweto round about now. Intervals is something I do not do enough of and it has been way too long since I had a hard training ride. Yesterdays ride was most enjoyable because it was a fairly hard session.

 

Teeny got on his bike for the first time in a month and he makes me work. HARD. Didn't realise just how soft and lazy I have been until yesterday.

 

Climbing Camaro helps build strength, so does the reserve. But I have sorely lacked any quality training for some time. Even that WWRR was something I never got the full benefit from.

 

I just kind of sauntered along. Maybe I have been too lazy, I dunno. I was certainly using the excuse that it was getting dark too early, but I have noticed the days are getting longer again. So doing slightly longer rides and ably to start pushing hard again.

 

I guess I fell into my own mindset trap of just turning legs through winter. But at least I have truned legs and have a halfway decent base on which to start building.

 

Soweto first, and then the assualt on 94.7.

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DOUBLE SHOW OFF

[Slave]

And now BB, the pink blouse is for what? Am I that much of a chicken?

 

Edit:A very small pink blouse at that.

 

 

Slave2009-07-22 05:45:49

[Slave]

Damn - can't make the 6th but I am gonna be there this Saturday' date=' 25 July at 7am if anyone wants to join me and my team mate for a loop....we'll be going easyish 2:15-2:30 time.

 

Anyone?

 

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Shall I hook you up with Andy. He invited me to ride at SBR this weekend and I now he wants to go a bit faster than I can go. I'm sure he would love to go around at that speed / pace.

 

Andy. Chat to Eldron. Send him a PM or something. Sounds like the kind of pace that you cant get into.

[Cyclewizz]

Yeah' date=' yeah. yeah. Dude, I hear ya. I know I need to leave the lollies on the shelf in the pack, in the shops. It will help but it's not easy to kick a 30 year habit.

 

Didn't realise just how soft and lazy I have been until yesterday.

 

Climbing Camaro helps build strength, so does the reserve. But I have sorely lacked any quality training for some time. Even that WWRR was something I never got the full benefit from.

 

Maybe I have been too lazy, I dunno. I was certainly using the excuse that it was getting dark too early, but I have noticed the days are getting longer again. So doing slightly longer rides and ably to start pushing hard again.

 

I guess I fell into my own mindset trap of just turning legs through winter. But at least I have truned legs and have a halfway decent base on which to start building.

 

Soweto first, and then the assualt on 94.7.

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Slave buddy, you strong like an OX I mean a Horse.

Keep doing what you've been doing up to now, I'll be back on the road mid/end Aug and need somebody to ride with, hopefully I'll keep up with you.

But then again doing 70km/h down Swartkoppies is way too much for me, maybe I'll manage 35km/h.

Hang in there Slavey....

 

 

[Slave]

Kid, funny thing is it sounds more impressive than it actually is. On the other hand, it is far more fun that it sounds (until it goes pear shaped).

If I can do it dude, then anyone can. It was very easy behind the truck because it never really got much faster than that and it makes a BIG BUBBLE.

 

Without the truck I only manage 35  and max out at 'round 45 to 50 at the dip towards the shooting range.

 

 

[NotSoBigBen]

'If anything, fear got me to give up the chase. Fear of the consequence of face planting at that speed or anything that could possibly have gone wrong causing me to crash. '

 

Slave - LittleBen tells me that is why I am so much slower than him, he doesn't have that 'fear' we speak of so openly ....... nor the legs of course!

[Slave]

Gotcha (Understand)

 

Yes, when we are young and dumb (I was ok, so don't laugh. It was a long time ago, but I was young once. Sadly though, I am not so young any more.) I digress, when (must be an age thing.) See, I can't even keep my mind on one thing.

 

'K, when I was young, I never gave any thought to waht might go wrong, Spoke snapping, wheels collapsing, forks breaking. All that sort of junk. We just got our heads down and rode the bike. We also never had any potholes in the road like today.

 

Eish, now I fear the resultant pain of what happens if any of the above.

 

So now you say Little Ben doesn't have the fear or the legs. My teenager has none of the fear and all the legs. He kicks my butt badly.

 

I had to hurt him yesterday as it was his first ride in the past month and the only time I can kick his butt. By today, he is able to keep up with me and by tomorrow, he is kicking some @ss again. MINE.

 

Eish to be young and dumb again. Now all I have to look forward to is the latter part.

 

 

Slave2009-07-22 07:57:04

[Andyr249]

Trubie I only get 3 on the first part of the loop. But that is excluding the bit of an uphill near the dam. But I will include that in the laps to see the gradient. It doesn't seem that steep though. But then again that Long Drag after that horse shoe section doesn't seem too steep (just long) and it is about 6% I think-about same gradient as final climb.

I do a bit of interval training when riding SBR with you guys.

[Guest Agteros]

And so the 23rd came, and the 23rd went with nary a word being said

[Trubie]

And so the 23rd came' date=' and the 23rd went with nary a word being said[/quote']

 

must be a first?

 

[Slave]

Perhaps the 24th too.

 

GOv2.0, I have some riding jackets for you dude. One as per your spec and the other repaired and modified.

[Cyclewizz]

And so the 23rd came' date=' and the 23rd went with nary a word being said[/quote']

 

Everybody was doing secret trainning.

 

Trubie, how come I didn't see you this morning at 5am ??

[Slave]

maybe because it was so cold with a captial "F". I am still in therapy as a result of riding in that cold when we did the WWRR.

 

Teeny, went and borrowed an IDT yesterday from our neighbour. So we had a session on it last night. The session worked better than I anticpated it would. Spent time doing three sessions of 8 minutes @ "x" rpm. Lacking a cadence meter, I counted RPM during my second session and what I thought was about 80 RPM was actually 100.

 

No wonder I struggled to keep it going for 8 minutes at a time. Legs hurt some today.