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^ A car and a couple of motorbikes, but they did nothing about the traffic. There was very little traffic, mostly just empty road. Also this road is new so there are actually no potholes for the entire 125km. There are a lot of rumble strips and speed bumps though! Oh and of course there are wandering cattle which made me a little nervous once or twice. But it's easily the best road in Kenya.
This race, the Savannah Classic, was last weekend. I raced another event this weekend, the "Cycloville Annual". Similar length but far far worse conditions, i.e. hugely cratered road surface and congested traffic. The route blasted straight through several small towns, offering their buffet of roaming drunks and stray dogs, rectangular-profiled speed bumps and cars doing U-turns at 1.5mph. I got forced off the road by a petrol tanker and nearly front-ended an articulated lorry. A full write up will come once I get some work off my plate tomorrow.
Cycling itself is really no biggie in Kenya - I ride a bike around Nairobi every day and honestly it's fine. Can be a bit hairy at points, but there's also this anarchic freedom in having effectively no traffic laws. You force your way around like all the cars do, and make your own luck. I wish I had a GoPro!