Tour de PPA – Perfect Prep

Taking place on Sunday, 23 February, the Tour De PPA is the perfect way to fine-tune your fitness and strategy for the year’s Cape Town Cycle Tour!

An ideal warm-up, the upcoming Tour de PPA starts and ends at the Durbanville Racecourse, and is a great opportunity to get in a final, solid training session on a course that includes the testing Vissershok climb … one that has a little extra incentive this year. There’s a Strava segment along Vissershok and the fastest male and female will be awarded the King of the Hill prize on the day.

There are two routes in the event – a 110 km and 72 km – and the longer version counts for Cycle Tour seeding.

THE ROUTES

110 km route
With three climbs split evenly through the route, this is a ride that calls for measured energy outputs.

From Durbanville, riders climb up Tiekiedraai before turning right onto the undulating Contermanskloof Road. They then head right at the Vissershok stop street to tackle the tough climb up Vissershok. After winding their way through Durbanville, cyclists turn left onto Wellington Road and onto the flatter open roads.

At the R312/Fisantekraal intersection, riders continue straight to the R44 where they will turn left. It’s another left at Voor-Paardeberg, and left again onto the R304 before joining up with the 72 km route at the silos. The riders will then head back towards Durbanville via Adderley Road.

72 km route
A lot flatter after the Vissershok climb, this shorter route will see cyclists able to hook a big gear and build up some speed in the bigger bunches.

From Durbanville, riders climb up Tiekiedraai before turning right onto the undulating Contermanskloof Road. They then head right at the Vissershok stop street to tackle the tough climb up Vissershok. After winding their way through Durbanville, cyclists turn left onto Wellington Road and onto the flatter open roads.

At the R312/Fisantekraal intersection, cyclist on this route will turn left on the R304, left again on the R302 and then right onto the Philadelphia road. From there the riders will then head back towards Durbanville via Adderley Road.

PRIZES
Along with that King of The Hill Strava segment mentioned earlier, at the award ceremony- after the race, the following prizes are also on offer:

First across the line (male and female) in each route
fastest time on the day (male and female) in each route. This will be made available later once the results of the event have been finalised.

HOW TO ENTER
Online: go to pedalpower.org.za/events. Entries will close on Tuesday, 18 February.

ENTRY FEES

110 km: PPA members: R240; Non-PPA members: R340
72 km: PPA members: R220; Non–PPA members: R320

Start times:
110 km: 06h30
72 km: 08h00

Water points: the 110 km route has 5 spread out evenly along the course. The 72km route has 4.

CONTACT INFO:
pedalpower.org.za/events/tour-de-ppa/
www.pedalpower.org.za | 021 671 6340
alanda@pedalpower.org.za | info@pedalpower.org.za

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