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Is WW before or after the pedal power groups?

 

Can anyone point me in the direction of the whole list of groups.

The contents of the email:

 

We have made changes to the start line-up in the interest of your safety and to ensure that the later groups cross the start line timeously. You have therefore been seeded according to the following guidelines:

If you participated in any of our official seeding events (see below), we calculated your index by taking into consideration:

- the distance and degree of difficulty of the course

- the size of the field and

- conditions on the day

- combined with your race result in relation to the winner’s time.

The following 2010 seeding series events were used for seeding:

Langenhoven Gimnasium Pennypinchers Oudtshoorn Cycle Tour (104 km) - Oudtshoorn

Herald VW Tour (105 km) - Port Elizabeth

Ninety Niner (121 km) – Durbanville, Cape Town

Daily Dispatch / Felt Cycle Tour (100 km) - East London

Mountain 2 Mountain (108 km) - Tzaneen

Bio-Anabolics Jock Cycle Classique (95 & 140 km) - Nelspruit

Dome 2 Dome Cycling Spectacular (91 km) - Johannesburg

Kumba Iron Ore Classic (105 km) - Upington

MTN Amashovashova Durban Classic (106 km) - Durban

Jacaranda Satellite Classic (97 & 119 km)

MTN OFM Cycle Classic (110 km) - Bloemfontein

Almec Bolt and Engineering Cycle Race (100 km) - Orkney

Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge (94.7 km) – Kyalami, Johannesburg

Die Burger Cycle Tour (98 km) - Stellenbosch, Cape Town

 

And in addition, your time in the 2010 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour and weighted results from the 2009 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour were also considered during this process.

 

In a nutshell: As long as you finished within approximately double the winner’s time in any of the above events, you were seeded favourably.

 

We have received numerous requests to take your age and number of completed Cycle Tours into account. If you didn’t meet the above criteria we seeded you as follows:

 

Riders aged over 75 – in group BB;

Club 21 members and riders aged 70 to 74 – in group DD;

Completed 15-20 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours – in group GG;

Completed 13-14 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours – in group KK;

Completed 12 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours – in group MM;

Completed 11 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours – in group QQ;

Have participated in more than one seeding event in 2010 - in group RR;

Completed 10 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours – in group SS;

Completed 9 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours – in group TT;

Completed 8 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours – in group UU;

Completed 7 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours – in group WW;

Completed 6 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours – in group XX;

Completed 5 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours & have an active PPA membership - in group PA

Have participated in only one seeding event & have an active PPA membership - in group PA

Completed 5 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tours (no PPA membership) - in group OA

Have participated in only one seeding event (no PPA membership) - in group OB

 

If you did not qualify for seeding based on the above criteria and are a member of PPA (formerly WPPPA), you were automatically placed in the PPA category. Similarly, non-PPA members were placed in the Open category.

 

Start Group Sequence: The start group sequence will be as follows:

 

$ Invitational

# Racing Tandems

VA/% Racing Vets (30-39) & Racing Ladies

VB/VM Racing Vets (40+) & Vets (50+)

A - M Seeded

NH, NT, NR, NU Handcycles, 1st Social Tandem group, Recumbents, Unicycles

Q – Z Seeded

AA & BB Overseas entrants (who do not qualify for better seeding)

CC Seeded

DD African (non-SA) entrants (who do not qualify for better seeding)

EE Seeded

FF 2nd Social Tandem group

GG Seeded

HH Charity Group

JJ Charity group

KK Seeded

LL Corporate Bond group

MM Seeded

NN Nedbank

QQ – XX Seeded

PA – PE PPA members’ groups (who do not qualify for seeding)

OA – OG Open groups (who do not qualify for seeding)

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Thanks Edam, that helps. Leet22, I'll see you there in RR.

Cool :D

Ill be in the Sign Up Kit. :D Not riding in the works kit unless they sponsor me :huh:

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Still waiting for mine. Takes a while before the ZZZ,s get their mails :blush:

 

Patiently waiting as well................ lie watching my phone every few minutes waiting for it to ping with mail

 

:thumbup:

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+2 for VA. I see the ladies are racing with us this time! I might enjoy the wheel sucking view :)

 

there fixed - see you in VA

 

VA for me again, but will drop a group a two. Got slapped around too much last year in this group.

 

Boy, this year you can get slapped around by the ladies! Sure you wanna give up that chance?

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Group C for me.

 

HOW!!! I am in E and I am sure I ride faster than you.... or am I mistaken?

 

Edit: my bad. mistook you for spat.

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But it's not all doom and gloom - I'll be preparing to head to Philip Island to drive a 1947 MG TC single seater special in a historic motorsport weekend...a week before the Aussie F1 GP. (Where I won't be competing.)

Lucky BUGGER!!!!! Enjoy it, will be an awsome experience, much better than the Argus. :thumbup: :clap:

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E, starting 06h43.

But expect to drop a group once final seeding has been done. Happens almost every year.

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