Hi everyone,

I trust u all had a great weeks riding, training and racing.

What with the Nationals taking place (MTB) at Jonkershoek on Sat and the infamous Cape Cobra PPA ride with a Crit afterwards taking place on Sunday. Plenty of action in our neck of the woods. I have not checked the results yet but believe that Henning came fourth in his section. Mooi so.

Well, the Cape Dr has certainly dished out its fair share of medicine the past week or so with a howling S/Easter having to be contended with racing the Cape Cobra. Always a tough race to take part in, and this year even more so, with added climbs to make it a climbers’ dream race and for the likes of the heavies, alla RK, a bit of a nightmare to say the least.

Our clubs riders in general did exceptionally well for this time of the season. In the Elites we had Lourens Calitz coming in with a fantastic second and RK coming in about one and a half minutes behind him in 22nd position with young Ruan van Schalkwyk not far behind.
The small Elite lead group comprising of about 30 riders splitting with about 500m to go and of course having to finish on the climb at the top of Ou Kaapse Weg. Proved to be a nail biter right to the last couple of hundred meters.

Young Dean Hoff taking a fourth place in the Crit after having some bad luck in the RR with two punctures. Alex Heward having had a fall on Saturday (and not being able to have his bike repaired) and having to ride all those massive climbs with no small blade. Well done, takes some doing just to finish.

I’m led to believe that Dean Graham came in fifth place in the junior section, and our Vets rider Vince Bergh in eighth position. Excellent.

Added to this we had the likes of Paul Fourie and Alwyn van Pitius competing in the gruelling Attakwas MTB race. I have had no feed back at this point in time.

All in all some pretty good results and something that the club can be proud of and we have only just started.

Well this week we will continue with the Tues, Wed and Thursday 5.30am one hr LSD rides and from next week the Polar program geared for the Argus.

Do not forget about the INFO MEETING scheduled for next Monday the 28th Jan 6.30pm at the Methodist Church Coronation Ave. Hopefully plenty and possibly exciting info to share with u. Please pitch as u have done in the past. Hopefully only 1hr of so iets van julle tyd.


Goedgaan.

ek