capeofstorms Posted January 12, 2010 Posted January 12, 2010 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 Posted January 12, 2010 Posted January 12, 2010 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.
niklasvm Posted January 12, 2010 Posted January 12, 2010 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' date=' 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[/quote'] Its true that you'll have to average close to 40 but remember there are a lot places where you can go much faster than that: wynberg hill to muizenberg, smitwinkel to slangkop and then the last stretch from suikerbossie. The trick will just be to get over the nasty bumps. Does anyone know when the seedings are going to come out?
MaxUmis Posted January 12, 2010 Posted January 12, 2010 Does anyone know when the seedings are going to come out? An informant of mine told me that the Argus organizers only sent out those emails before x-mas, because they didn't feel like handling the seedings before the holidays... So add some Cape Town time and who knows when the seeding will be out
niklasvm Posted January 20, 2010 Posted January 20, 2010 Cycle tour website said seedings will be sent out midway through january. Nothing yet. Hope it comes out soon
MaxUmis Posted January 21, 2010 Posted January 21, 2010 So, the latest email states to be on the lookout for preliminary seedings from Thursday, AND that if your friend gets theirs before you to just be patient. Got it!? Can almost feel the Windhoek man watching me...
niklasvm Posted January 21, 2010 Posted January 21, 2010 I'm happy now. Got my seeding finally. Hope it doesn't change. The email said that it could move around a few groups in the final seeding run.
Drinks@Brawn Posted January 22, 2010 Author Posted January 22, 2010 I'm happy now. Got my seeding finally. Hope it doesn't change. The email said that it could move around a few groups in the final seeding run. Now you got to do the training to go with that good seeding.
niklasvm Posted January 23, 2010 Posted January 23, 2010 I'm happy now. Got my seeding finally. Hope it doesn't change. The email said that it could move around a few groups in the final seeding run. ? Now you got to do the training to go with that good seeding. Already started and doing well so far.
Schwynn Posted January 24, 2010 Posted January 24, 2010 Got mine as well, "G", for now. The bent rear DR did not help my time very much. So far the training is not going to plan either.
Drinks@Brawn Posted January 28, 2010 Author Posted January 28, 2010 Heavy wind! Good training. Ha Ha.
Robo Posted January 29, 2010 Posted January 29, 2010 Read most of the post,my old man doing his 23rd this year I am doing my 3rd, golden rule drink a lot of good red wine before the race and race hard,managed 3 sub 3 hours.
Drinks@Brawn Posted January 29, 2010 Author Posted January 29, 2010 Read most of the post' date='my old man doing his 23rd this year I am doing my 3rd, golden rule drink a lot of good red wine before the race and race hard,managed 3 sub 3 hours.[/quote'] You also can not get to sleep? reading posts at 01h00 in the morning.
Saudiq Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Hi All, Does anyone know what the NT group is? Is that the old social tandem group? Do we start after the Z group?
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