Awesome CONGRATULATIONS MAN!!!!! Hope you had an Excellent Hatchin day :-)
On 31 May 2010 13:36, Leon van der Westhuizen <[email protected]>wrote: > 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... :-))) > > ------------------------------ > *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 >> >> 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. >> >> ******************************************************************************************************* >> >> >> Disclaimer: >> Denel (Pty) Ltd t/a Denel Aviation (Denel Aviation) Registration number: >> 1992/001337/07 >> This message and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for >> the addressee. 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