Commuting BlaawBerg to Parow

[Guest coenie]

Hey there, is there anyone else who comute from Tableview, Blaauber area to Parow...area at around 5:30. I want to put together a little group who is keen on a longer ride in the morning...like over tiekie draai etc, or maybe a loop in Majik n morning....

 

 

 

Let me you if you are keen...always more fun to ride in a group than on your own

 

[Woofie]

I ride parklands to belville (sanlam) everyday.

But sorry i only leave at 6.30.

I go up plattekloof, hendrik vervoet (or straight across N1) and then that road that runs past the hospital, across durban road and down to work.

 

Tried going via tickidri a couple of times, but it is about 5-6Km longer.

I dont mind the hill, but the extra accumilated mileage kills me afterwards.

Especially since I am still racing on the weekends and DC training.

I am currently doing maybe 1500 a month, so for myself I am bordering on overtraining.

But I am always looking for riding buddies though.

 

 

[Guest coenie]

Hey sounds good, at the moment I ride plattekloof rd most days and do that little hill at Didata and then down to sanlam center...maybe we meet up on Tuesday?

[Woofie]

Cool

So you also work at sanlam then?

Which one? The one by Bill Bezuidenhout (Belville) or Parow one

 

[Guest coenie]

CoolSo you also work at sanlam then?Which one? The one by Bill Bezuidenhout (Belville) or Parow one

 

 

No I am at Foschini, next to the Sanlam center...Where you on Gie rd this morning? around 7 ishcoenie2009-10-30 02:24:15

[Woofie]

Yep.

 

I was running late.

 

Is that you that I overtook just after darklands main road/gie circle?

[Tubehunter]

I was on Gie this morning at that time. Dimension Data kit with yello helmet.

[Woofie]

ok. on a mtb?

Sorry I didnt look at kit.

 

 

[Guest coenie]

yip that was me...hehe

 

I was waiting for the other dude behind me on a MTB...

[Guest coenie]

Woofie, I hope you were allready going and not just warming up?

 

:-)

[Woofie]

Oh ok ! 

I thought I saw two mtb's.

 

Cool, we can chat on monday then.

 

 

 

[Woofie]

 

little hill at Didata

 

Not actually that little.

I do feel it on my road bike.

It is actually longer than you think it is because it goes quite steep in the beginning and then it flattens out a bit.

So in your mind it is almost finished, but it has actually only started because then you carry on climbing up to the old di data building where it flattens a bit, but then it climbs once more before the top.

 

 

[Woofie]

Haha.

Actually I normally try to take my midweek rides easy as my legs are generally always tired from the last race and just too much riding.

 

But when I see another cyclist on the road all the pain normally disapears and a bit of ego kicks in and you end up riding harder than you want to.

The same thing happens when I am approaching a robot and if I think I can make it through without having to stop then I end up giving it balls.

Flip I hate doing that.

(which probably explains why my legs are always tired)

 

So when I saw you this morning, I was just chilling, but remember that I am doing the same work at 30 that you are doing at 25.

So when I came past you this morning, I just easily lifted my pace to over 30 and I knew that if you tried to keep with me, unless you were super strong, that speed would be enough to make you back down.

 

I dont know I recon all cyclists are the same

 

[Guest coenie]

I noticed that you had UPPED the pace

 

:-)

[Woofie]

 

[Guest coenie]

At least you admit to it.....:-) If you told me you were just warming up, I would have had to sell/give my bike away tonight