Race organisers are optimising the infrastructure of races with back to back road and mountain bike races. This suits an inbetweener like me just fine, but it was an interesting weekend after a two week break... The road race was the Saturday and the road race on the Sunday. The road race was defined at about halfway with a small breakaway and a chasing peleton of about 10 others. A few individual attempts of chasing came from the peleton, but with the big team riders in the breakaway, chasing was certainly not objective of the chasing peleton.
The mountain bike race was huge fun. The course consisted of two 35km laps and it was fast and not too technical. “It was certainly very fast and I enjoyed it tremendously,” said Swanepoel. “There was loads of traffic on the second lap but slower riders were very courteous and kept to the left, so it wasn’t a problem.”
I realised that I cycled the day before shortly into the second lap, and just managed a consistent pace for the remainder of the race. Yolandi du Toit was the first lady home, her scorching time of 1hr28min no less impressive than that of the men. Overall runner up was Theresa Ralph and me, Karien van Jaarsveld on the third step of the podium.
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