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12-11.-2002, 01:14 AM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
That was exactly what I was thinking. <br /><br />I nearly had to change my shorts when I was told. . .
 <br /><br />At least I should get a good time.
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12-11.-2002, 08:22 AM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
Guess I'm as ready as I'm likely to be! Physically I have put in the kilometers, about 200-250 a week over past 3 months. I pulled a tendon in my right thigh the week before the Amashova. Tried to be a smartass and jumped a truck going up Krugersdorp hill! :
 Hurts after about 50km but it still works OK. Should have rested it but what can you do at this time? ??? Mentally I'm OK, I know I can do this route. I'll be happy with 4hrs. Beyers Naude will be OK, (the potholes I mentioned have been fixed). Yeah, the N14 will be hard. I live in the area and the prevailing wind direction will be against us. I'll just look for a big guy to sit behind! ;D
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12-11.-2002, 05:39 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
Ok, well you all sound really well prepared. I'm beginning to get nervous thinking about it now. My first season of racing so this is the first big one (Tour De Gold and Amashovashova so far). I haven't put in nearly enough time, too much partying etc, but I guess I have a few years to get to your levels (and if I can stick to a guy like Old Timer when I'm 60 let alone 73 I'll be happy). But hoping for 3h30, perhaps 3h20. Got no group to work with (still get to start with plebs) so if there is wind I am toast. I don't have enough distance work in my legs though so I'm hoping that some goo etc should get me through the last 20 km's (got me through Amashova and T de Gold).
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12-11.-2002, 08:16 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
I have done the best that I can. Tried to do everything right and in the main I think I did well enough I have tried to balance that point between over and under training. My races so far have been better than I expected, however, there are times that I feel like the Natal sharks - I just don't do well enough on the big days (sorry I couldn't resist that). <br />I start in the D group, and If I don't get stupid and try to stay with the guys upfront, I will be able to keep with the main group to the end. The problem is there are times that I have an exaggerated opinion of my ability.<br />Anyway let the day speak for itself.
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12-11.-2002, 08:29 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
Saw you on Sunday, BK. You look quite fit and ready.
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12-11.-2002, 08:58 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
Like they say, looks can be deceptive.<br /><br />Anyway how did your ride over the 94.7 route go? I rode what was supposed to be the back section with the club and that wind was just a killer. I just hope we don't have that type of wind on Sunday. My mental strength is yet to overcome winds.
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12-11.-2002, 10:18 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
Hey BK, <br /><br />I did the same ride as you then. I saw Jaco and wanted to meet VO2 but I take it they were in the group that turned left into Witkoppen.<br /><br />It would have been great if we met. How hectic was that wind.
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12-11.-2002, 10:44 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
Yea, we did turn left, went through the suburbs Main/Wiliam Nicol/Rivonia/Oxord to Jan Smuts where we got onto the route. Did the route up to where Beyers Naude intersects with Northumberland (Witkoppen) and then went back to Pineslopes through the suburbs.<br /><br />Saw another potensially hazardous spot in the route... on CR Swart, after the N1 after you've crossed Pres. Fouche, they're busy building cluster homes and probably as a result of that dough up the road and closed (only wih soil) it again ... now is sort of a trench (for a lack of a better word) that run across the road. Hopefully they'll put a conveyer belt or something over there!<br />
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12-11.-2002, 11:52 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
Thanks for the heads up. How did you enjoy the wind?
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13-11.-2002, 01:14 AM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
wind was euuucckk.<br /><br />Weather for Sunday as predicted today:<br /><br />11/29 Partly cloudy.<br />Wind: Light north-westerly to westerly.<br /><br />So, seems as if we'll have the wind from behind / left on Sunday when we're on the R28/N14 since we'll be cycling sort of east?
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13-11.-2002, 11:14 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
OK, now who is nervous for this weekend? I'm beginning to dread what I see as 98 km's of weaving between people
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14-11.-2002, 01:14 AM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
Just had a massage.<br /><br />Boy were my legs in a bad way. My calves still hurt. Hopefully alot of the pent up lactic acid will be gone for the weekend.<br /><br />I won't hear from anyone before next week, so guys and girls, have an awesome ride. If you see some guys wearing white shirts with &quot;Dream Team&quot; on them, like so... Shout and and say hello. If you're out on the road after 10am and we pass, we will be on our 2nd lap and will need all the support.<br /><br />Ride Safe.
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14-11.-2002, 04:12 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
Rhodent - I'm also not looking forward to the hordes, what group are you starting in?
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14-11.-2002, 07:14 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
[quote author=Lab_Rat link=board=15;threadid=2627;start=15#22602 date=1037200489]<br />Just had a massage.<br /><br />Boy were my legs in a bad way. My calves still hurt. Hopefully alot of the pent up lactic acid will be gone for the weekend.<br /><br />I won't hear from anyone before next week, so guys and girls, have an awesome ride. If you see some guys wearing white shirts with &quot;Dream Team&quot; on them, like so... Shout and and say hello. If you're out on the road after 10am and we pass, we will be on our 2nd lap and will need all the support.<br /><br />Ride Safe.<br />[/quote]<br /><br /><br />Lab Rat - is the UCS on the kit Universal Computer Services? If so - what is your connection? My brother works there!
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14-11.-2002, 07:41 PM
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Re:Who is ready for the weekend?
I'm starting at 8:27, group SS. So I can foresee fighting my way through hordes of back-marked seeded guys and girls (as far as I can see the groups out to 40 minutes in front of me are peopled by cyclists who did the 94.7 in between 4 and 6 hours the previous year. Unless a lot of these characters are stronger than they were it is going to be a nightmare getting through them (My cycling partners, who have been riding for a few years, start more than 1h30 in front of me). My only hope is that the unseeded starting times were allocated by how late one's entry went in, in which case I would assume it is the more dedicated beginners who would have got the first few unseeded start times (RR, SS, TT)...<br /><br />I guess I can't complain, at least I'm not starting at 10:00 (And maybe some of the faster guys will do a warm down lap and I can try tag on for some km's :P)
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