I did the long one last year, and seriously?
The only thing it has that is worth doing that the short one doesn't
have, si that climb up past the mushroom rocks and down the north side
of Breedtsnek. For the the rest, it's almost all dirt road and this one
sickening section of thick sand... And then you hook up to the second
half of the short route again...
That climb up and down Breedtsnek doesn't quite make up for the rest of
the long one.
Let's tak forest to falls, right? The new route.
First 33km, nice, but not spectacular, not really hard at all... 2nd
half, killer hard with massive climbs on dirt road mostly, strue, but
slippery as anything. A real challenge to ride. And the singletrack
stuff they put it. Woohoo!!!! And beautiful views... If you read my
blog, there's a pic there called the avenue of trees. Stunning. Well
worth the suffering.
Besides, last Thursday was my bday, so Monster is my birthday race. I
wanna enjoy my birthday weekend without too much pain :-))))
PS: Dirtrider, I've done 4 consequtive Croozes, and each year it's
gotten more like an MTB race. That climb through the game farm and then
the singletrack mext to the river were fantastic. Didn't do it last year
though... That race is hard purely from a fitness point of view. The
pace is so frenetic, that you're stuffed cos you didn't pace yourself
properly :-) And that #$$%%^&^& "Sorry" hill at the end... :-)))
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hardy
Sent: 31 May 2010 13:27
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [D&D-chat] Magalies Monster
Noooooo Ways Boeta!!!!
THat legendary climb up through those mushroom rocks and the
wicked washedout 6km Downhill after taming da Monsta... yeeehaaaaa
frikkin amazing!!!!
Why you do the shorty?
On 31 May 2010 12:55, Leon van der Westhuizen
<[email protected]> wrote:
For those who can't, or couldn't be bothered to follow
my blog :-) vortexe.blogspot.com <http://vortexe.blogspot.com/>
What a race.
I am reminded why this race is my favorite one of all.
It has more technical singletrack and seriaas rocky descents than any
other single stage of any MTB race I have ever done, bar none.
It really does.
From a ride over a cement pipe, to large fixed rocks
round Bufflespoort dam, to smooth flowing singletrack on the hiking
trails in Mountain Sanctuary Park, to hectic smaller loose rocky descent
to a portage river crossing and up a to the top of an almost-cliff,
followed by a long technical climb on cut grass with loose rocks
interspersed and a downhill of the same, to purpose built flowing
singletrack along the Sterkstroom river, with bridges to cross over, and
sometimes not, to technical rocky jeep tracks, and awesome rocky
descents...
Man, I'm outta breath now :-)
This race is, to me, what epitomises what a mountainbike
race should be. It has every aspect, with a definite lean to the
technical, where a longer travel light all-mountain bike is not
penalised like on virtually every other race I can think of, with their
long miles of smooth dirt road.
The distance of 42km this year, may seem paltry, but it
is surely the toughest 42km race this side of Alpine Heath (which I hear
is, or rather was, no pushover ;-) ). It left me with just enough in the
tank to be able to sprint the last 5km for a not too bad 2:30 finish,
good enough for 32nd overall. The winning time was 1:57, which is
flabbergasting.
In comparison with the long route which I did last year,
the 42km has everything except the actual monster climb up Breedtsnek
from the north along the 4X4 tracks and down on the dirt. Almost
everything else on the long route is dirt road...
I firmly believe that in this case the half marathon is
a better route than the full marathon.
Thanks to all for a wonderful day out.
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