Gary is ready to give it a go after resting yesterday. I am feeling, "rode hard and put away wet" after my solo run yesterday. It rained hard last night which should make for a rust free race which will be very welcome. Our start time is 7:30 am. The race goes well, Gary seems much stronger and the 2 hr race time allows us to rest for our king stage tomorrow of over 140 kms. This stage will show if Gary has recovered enough to continue. Yesterday was very exciting for me being able to open the throttle for the last 2/3 s of the race to hunt some two horned young south african bucks. Not having time to adjust to the heat and technical riding has costs Gary a competitive race. I hope he can finish the next 3 stages, they will be very tough.
One more thing I want to add. This race has been alot of fun, reaching out to high five so many black kids, they all seem so happy and will often be singing together for you as you fly past. The kids all wear uniforms to school no matter how poor they are. The workers on the farms live in much better homes than the townships. 47million south Africans, 5%of them pay income tax, it will be interesting to see if that economic profile can sustain itself with the blacks fully in political control. They have grand schemes of liberal political correctness, but are very corrupt. We will see
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