Prologue

Don't really know what to say about the prologue. It was nice to finally get this epic thing on the road. But I think everybody is nervously awaiting the extreme violation that the next few days holds, so this prologue thing was a bit of a "tease".

The route was pretty straightforward. Took us 47in42sec. Avg of just over 18km/h. All the Upingtoners had times in that region. Eppie and Dirk posted the quickest time so they get the Upington Yellow Jersey for tomorrow. We were 2min down on them. For the record Kevin Evans and David George won the stage in 31 odd min!!!!!!, putting over a minute into the second placed team.

Below are some photos taken today. The "beds" Mark and I are lying on are "Magnetic Mattresses". They are supposed to help all manner of ills including fatigued muscles. Oh well if nothing else at least we'll be "postively charged" for tomorrow's stage!