This past weekend included a lot of firsts. First time in the new colours, first time doing a 8hr relay with just one other rider being my team mate and first “unofficial” race of the year. I got to say it was a lot of fun coming to cascades and riding the trails full gas “some laps” it make you feel alive.
We got to appreciate the fact we have a dedicated and passionate group of people involved in KZN-mtb. They are pushing hard to make sure we get international level races to our province and this event being a fund raiser for the bike park at cascades felt like a good time to show some support for the time they are putting in.
Although a pretty un-serious event Hilton (team mate) and I had some serious decisions to make at around lunch time…like how many laps it will take each of us so we can each get in some decent food? Ha-ha. But it all worked out pretty well. What I really liked about the day is that we had all the members of the new team together joking around and having a good time and it felt like good way to start the year.
At the end of the day 8hrs is long I think between the two of us we logged up around 85km’s each with close to 1800 meters of climbing on a 5km XC track.
A great day!
The next few weeks is going to be back to racing with the first real test in Pretoria next weekend at the first round xcosouthafrica.com cup after that its down to Capetown and then back to KZN for the momentum xc series.
A great day!
The next few weeks is going to be back to racing with the first real test in Pretoria next weekend at the first round xcosouthafrica.com cup after that its down to Capetown and then back to KZN for the momentum xc series.
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