All ready to Rock 'n Roll out of CPT

Shew, only one more day of knowing what its like not to be on a bicycle for at least 6 hours a day! Yes, it is less than 24 hrs before we tackle just about 2 argus cycle races everyday for the next 12 days!! Seems like a formidable task, but I like to think about it one day at a time and not as an impossible journey of 12 days of over 1700kms!



We have had an incredible breakthrough in that only today, did we find accommodation in every single town we plan on staying in. We want to thank all the owners and manager's of the B&B's and self catering apartments for their generosity by sponsoring us FREE accommodation or asking only for a small subsidy!! So we plan on hitting the below buzzing metropolitan 'cities', which I've heard that some of them only have one traffic light and only one double-storey house!! So it's gonna be interesting ! (At least we won't have to worry too much about directions as we won't be carrying a GPS with us but photocopied pages out of our road atlas!)

So before we leave, I thought it would be good to put down a few stats and then compare them to when we finish in JHB. (Basically I really just want to find out how much weight I am going to lose in the next 2 weeks ;-)

Jaco

Starting weight: 69kgs

Body fat percentage: 7%

Christie

Starting weight: 71kgs

Body fat precentage: 27%

Other Stats

Weight of panniers packed with everything we'll be carrying: 10kgs

Weight of tandem with packed panniers: 30kgs

Total Weight of tandem with the 2 of us and packed panniers: 170kgs