You know you're training for the Epic when...

• Your wife says all she washes are cycling clothing and plastic water bottles.
• Your riding energy mix is finished (again!)
• 6:30am is a long sleep in.
• Over the last 2 months you’ve tried all the fruit, nut, and protein bars that you got from being in the queue at Woolies.
• You snap awake and find yourself on the toilet….at work…at 10am!
• When you look at your watch and it says 20:34 - it’s considered a late night.
• You don’t care how old the cycle jersey is that you're wearing – you've been through all of the others.
• You know all of the names of all the staff in at least 2 bike shops.
• You put your bike into the garage at night…and find yourself staring at it with affection.
• You have to charge your lights; GPS; and phone every night.
• You have permanent helmet hair.
• You don’t mind stepping on the scale.
• 2 beers down – and you're buzzing!
• In your mind the weekend is divided into 4 equal quadrants – choose 2 for riding.
• You start shopping for jeans one size smaller.
• People you haven’t seen in a while say you look really fit.
• People who know you really well say you look really tired.
• You're not sure where you last put your helmet and shoes – because you've been dropping them in different places around the house every day.
• You have a work colleague who has a neighbour who’s also doing the Epic.
• You start shitting yourself because you have a work colleague who has a neighbour who’s also doing the Epic and he “rides from Stellenbosch to Cape Town every day”.
• You have a work colleague who has a neighbour who’s done the Epic and he trained for 25 hours a week for 6 months!
• You have a work colleague who has a neighbour who’s done the Epic and he lost his wife and his job because of the training – but he says it was the best thing he’s ever done!