GPS Tracks
Flat and Fast
Tweet We have had a couple of stand out rides on this adventure of ours; Baines Kloof Pass and riding the dirt roads through the succulent Karoo really stand out but this last ride to Strydenburg was incredible because of the average speed we achieved. The conditions were perfect – we had a wind behind … Continue reading
Categories: GPS Tracks, Stages
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, long distance cycling, One Gear, The Cows
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Loxton to Victoria Wes – heard of these towns?
Tweet Neither had we, but that is what has stood out for me on this adventure so far; going to places you would not normally and having the chance to meet amazing people you would never have given yourself the opportunity to. We rode from Loxton to stay with Wilma at her guest house “Victoria … Continue reading
Categories: GPS Tracks, Stages, The Exercise Laboratory
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, long distance riding, One Gear, single speed, south africa
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Should we just call it a wall
Tweet Yesterday we rode further than planned and ended up doing about 80 km of dirt in order to eat away at today’s required distance. The plan was to turn today into a chilled stage and get some extra rest in… it didn’t happen! It was super hot and dusty yesterday and the sun threatened … Continue reading
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Bain’s Kloof Pass
Tweet Peoples reactions to what we are doing are varied bust mostly something along the lines of ”Jy’s Fo*#*# mal”. Yesterday we passed 2 cyclists and we were shooting the breeze while riding alongside them for a while; it was fun when asked where we were riding to be able to answer “Joburg!” When we … Continue reading
Last Big Training Ride
Tweet So Russel (Biodynamics) has told me that I need to start tapering from next week so I went out for one last big ride this morning. I got in 80km which is about 10km more than what we will need to average on a daily basis! Holy crap, as I wrote that with my … Continue reading
Categories: GPS Tracks, Sponsors, Training, USN
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MB Training Ride
Tweet They say you can multiply the off road KM’s ridden by 2 to get the equivalent on road distance (obviously – so if you do the math this was a 93.64 KM training ride – Just saying! And yes “they” are the scientific community and its all very scientific and…stuff.
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The Black Hole
Tweet I grew up in Rivonia but for some reason the neighboring suburb of Bryanston has always been a black-hole to me. To this day I still get lost driving through there. So when I ventured in on my bike this weekend it was with a little trepedation – no not really. But I did find myself riding … Continue reading
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In the mind
Tweet Its not like I have made some kind of breakthrough in the field of psychological research by saying that your perception of a distance, or more accurately, how long it seems to cover that distance, is affected by your state of mind before you set out but this has become more and more apparent … Continue reading
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