Ok well I didn’t post the last race I did, it was the spur schools mtb challenge at kearnsey and what I thought was going to be a walkover proved me wrong, I arrived expecting minimal competition little did I know Brendon Davids and Bradley Schuit were going to be there aswell as Luke Dinkle, the start was fast and myself brendon and brad broke away in the first lap near the end of the lap brad dropped off and it was just brendon and myself, the pace was rather hot and I managed to stay on his wheel until the 6th lap or so then he was off and the last two laps I rode by myself, I managed to win my race by over 4minutes to brad and luke.
Now to hill2hill, the night before nerves were high and managed to fall asleep rather late and with a 6am start it was a VERY early morning. We arrived at the start with about 45 min to get ready but whilst fixing my rotor, looking for a bathroom and trying to warm up time had quickly run out.
The start gun set us off and it was a flying start, the junior boys were away within the first 5 km I managed to secure myself in a group of 3 youth boys, Patrick Belton(our current SA champ) and Brad Schuit, with Evan Van der Spuy and Murray Starr trying to bring us back, the pace was hot and us three managed to break away from all youth boys, at Bartletts I picked up the pace and at the top there were still three, on the next piece of singletrack Brad crashed in front of me which allowed Patrick to get away, I was not going to let him win so I kept up a consistant high pace and managed to catch him..
At the foot of Key ridge I attacked knowing climbing is a strength for me , shortly after the attack Brad dropped off and Patrick managed to stick on my wheel, I launched another attack but again he managed to bridge the gap, I realized if I wanted to win I would have to dig deep and launch an unbridgeable attack I did so and managed to put 3 minutes into Patrick up key ridge I rode hard all the way home and managed to secure the win for youth by 5 min or so and I ended up 5th overall 2-3 minutes behind Travis Walker , so I was happy and training is paying off.
My next race will be the Hilton 50 miler where I am hoping to win my age and achieve a top 10 overall
Until next time
Ride safe
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