I’m going to feel real unique being in crowd of 35 000 people dressed up in lycra and perched on masochistically-hard saddles when the biggest organised cycling race in the world pedals out of Cape Town and around the Cape peninsula.
Trying to see if I could improve on my time from last year I went to check out the Split Time Calculator that the organisers have put up on the website. I was quite impressed that I could not only see which points I needed to be at and when simply entering my desired finishing time.
Clicking on the split times brings up a line in an altitude graph which shows you where you will be on the race, and a real sweat addition of opening up a Google Earth tag for that position so you can have a look at the road and conditions.
I have also recently reviewed a very true-to-life book on the 108km cycle.
If you’re interested, here is a rather cheesy official video about the race.
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