Wednesday 16 January 2013

Another 04:00 am wake up - Arno du Toit


After yesterday's little Velo speed session, which some of us thoroughly enjoyed, it was time for a longer, easy day in the saddle according to the coaching panel: Paul and Yolande. I must admit, getting up before the sun is not my favourite thing in the world, but I like riding bicycles so I do it anyway!

As we met up with the rest of the wolf pack, I was surprised to see Amy there on time. (Jitte, glad I packed a rain jacket).

So, we hit the road towards Harties, or at least that's what we all thought, but after a democratic decision was made by Paul and himself, we went somewhere else. Somewhere Pretoria north / Brits / Hartbeespoort-ish… I'm not too sure where it was. The roads were dodgy, with loads of traffic. Not ideal. It was sad to see some motorists still not caring for us cyclists. Never the less, it was a bit more exciting than the normal route.




 About half way in, we had a quick stop for coffee at a garage, (somewhere). Paul almost lost his sense of humour when he discovered his 2nd puncture, which was also the 4th one in total for the group. Soon enough though, we were back on the bikes and off again. We headed back on familiar roads with a rather unpleasant headwind. 

There was some nice teamwork, with everyone taking turns in front, which made things a lot less painful than I thought it would be!

We ended our 4hr30min ride with an 80-85% tempo over Klapperkop and straight down to Bicccs for a few good cups of coffee.

Till next time
Ride safe!

Arno

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