Last week I headed to Teak Place with my MTN/Qhubeka Team mates for round 2 of the Nissan marathon series. There was an amazing turn out as well as some of the best racers in the country so the scene was set for a great days racing.
Right from the start we wanted to be sure that the pace was hard and we were successful in stringing out the front of the race within the first few km's! This race was fantastic with a great mix of single track, jeep track, rough and manacured bike trails. The racing was fast and there was a lot of changing positions but just after a very fast 35km the race came to an unfortunate end. The group came to a standstill a couple km from the end realising that we had missed out a big section of trails before the kom.
Positions were finally given on the standings as we crossed kom which is not really a comprehensive result but there was not really an alternative given the situation. This was a dissapointing ending for what had the makings of a great day of racing but am looking forward to round 3!
The next day Adrien and I packed up, collected our Volcans and headed for the UK. The reason for this was so we could recce out the 2012 London Olympic mountain bike course which Adrien had qualified to race in at the begining of the year. Our flight was good andMonday mid-morning we arrived in Basildon in Essex which is close to the Olympic venue which is at Haldliegh farm bike park. These first couple days we have only been training in Basildon as the course is closed until friday. We will go walk the course this pm to see what we are in for. What is exciting is that last night we got to see a new movie that is coming out showing the story of Team Rwanda and staring our own Adrien. They will also be filming the final chapter of the movie this week which is really special for me. This is an amazing story and I have no doubt this is going to explode onto the world of cycling within the next few months. I don't want to say too much but go check out: www.risingfromashesthemovie.com - this will touch harts!
All for now, will keep twitter updates from the race on the weekend!
Until then, safe trails!
Right from the start we wanted to be sure that the pace was hard and we were successful in stringing out the front of the race within the first few km's! This race was fantastic with a great mix of single track, jeep track, rough and manacured bike trails. The racing was fast and there was a lot of changing positions but just after a very fast 35km the race came to an unfortunate end. The group came to a standstill a couple km from the end realising that we had missed out a big section of trails before the kom.
Positions were finally given on the standings as we crossed kom which is not really a comprehensive result but there was not really an alternative given the situation. This was a dissapointing ending for what had the makings of a great day of racing but am looking forward to round 3!
The next day Adrien and I packed up, collected our Volcans and headed for the UK. The reason for this was so we could recce out the 2012 London Olympic mountain bike course which Adrien had qualified to race in at the begining of the year. Our flight was good andMonday mid-morning we arrived in Basildon in Essex which is close to the Olympic venue which is at Haldliegh farm bike park. These first couple days we have only been training in Basildon as the course is closed until friday. We will go walk the course this pm to see what we are in for. What is exciting is that last night we got to see a new movie that is coming out showing the story of Team Rwanda and staring our own Adrien. They will also be filming the final chapter of the movie this week which is really special for me. This is an amazing story and I have no doubt this is going to explode onto the world of cycling within the next few months. I don't want to say too much but go check out: www.risingfromashesthemovie.com - this will touch harts!
All for now, will keep twitter updates from the race on the weekend!
Until then, safe trails!
Exciting stuff! Wow... thanks for the movie link - really, really awesome. Hope we get to see it in SA.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the travels.