2010 Argus Cycle Tour & Giro del Capo

[Drinks@Brawn]

  All ya w.c. riders - how this freaking wind?  Insane hey?

 

STOP complaining and go and CYCLE.

[Bram_on_Madone]

Cytomax: At the moment I'm an I seeding for PPA, but I only started doing the funrides about a year ago, so I think I can still improve quite a bit.

[Bram_on_Madone]

I just came back from a nice ride in the wind - felt like the Argus all over again!

[firewolf]

will do in the am - five thirty - out along muiz, down atlantic road, left onto prince george drive, then the se becomes a riders best friend and i go all the way to town at top speed where my car waits. A short ride i know but will be like a theshhold type thing.  then sun a nice long ride. 

[firewolf]

feltrider - the amazing thing about cycling is... ride lots, race lots, your seeding will improve by itself.  I was in zc. now in c.

[Drinks@Brawn]

will do in the am - five thirty - out along muiz' date=' down atlantic road, left onto prince george drive, then the se becomes a riders best friend and i go all the way to town at top speed where my car waits. A short ride i know but will be like a theshhold type thing.  then sun a nice long ride.  [/quote']

 

Na,

I am talking about cycle now in the WIND.

[firewolf]

@ cytomax - man the wind is tooooo kstrong!!! have you seen the clouds on the mountain? (and my beer is nice and cold.) 2morrow is the day. 

[slysi]

Broke my frigging foot on Holiday this week! I wonder if it will be ok before Argus

 

One thing is for sure cannot train for 6 to 8 weeks and as a first timer this is a disaster.

 

[Eugene Oppelt]

slysi,

 

 

 

Sorry to hear about the foot.

 

 

 

That is a tough scenario.

 

May your foot heal quick quick!

 

 

 

[Drinks@Brawn]

Broke my frigging foot on Holiday this week! I wonder if it will be ok before Argus

One thing is for sure cannot train for 6 to 8 weeks and as a first timer this is a disaster.

 

Do you need your foot to get fit?

 

I can think of a couple exercises and gym machines you could use in the mean time.

Why wait, go to the mountain, It will not come to you.

 

[Drinks@Brawn]

Even Hubbers.

[Drinks@Brawn]

Even Hubbers.

[Drinks@Brawn]

It will be nice test come weekend Race, see how the training is coming along.

[Drinks@Brawn]

It will be nice test come weekend Race' date=' see how the training is coming along.[/quote']

 

One WORD. Unfit.

[capeofstorms]

To All those sub 3'ers

 

To achieve this feat one inevitably have to ride at a near constant speed of 40km/h. What gear would you have to be in to achieve this speed on a reasonable flat and what cadence would you be doing?

 

Also if you were to be going ujp the east side of Ou Kaapse weg(Tokai side) what gear would you be in and what speed would you be travelling at.

 

For the east side I find I'm mostly in the lowest gears and for the most part cannot go faster than 12 km/h

 

The reason for these questions is that I'm trying to achieve an average speed of 30 km/h for the fun rides, but for the Olympic cycle race for example could only manage 28 km/h average. I've been cycling for less than a year

 

Regards

[Older]

All you need to do is have a seeding of E or better and make sure you end up in dthe middle of your group at the end.  The climbs is the part of the race where you need to keep up with the group as there is little help but your own legs.