Jislaaik!

Hot hot hot. We have been having some crazy weather lately – racing in this kind of heat takes some skill to keep dehydration and heat stroke at bay yet still ride at a respectable pace!

The DCM boys were flying this weekend – Brandon and Rourke put in a solid attack on lap 1 (of 9) to stay ahead the entire race.

Andrew Warr (Spider), Andrew Hill (Mountain Man), Carl Calverly and myself had a lekker ding dong. It was lekker throwing the bike around with the okes – KZN racing is fun. We are really lucky to have our own “Swiss Power Cup” here in Natal! The juniors were crushing it too… great to see such a deep local talent pool emerging. A little birdie told me that we may have the World Cup back in PMB in 2011 !?

Brandon won the Elites, myself second and Carl 3rd.

Teammate Jeremy Thompson (JT) won the vets by a convincing 3 min – good job JT !
Julian Jessop – team Thule – came 2nd in the Sub Juniors
Thomas Jessop – team Thule – won the Sprogs

A great weekend by the Thule-Morewood team. Well done guys!

Photo credits to Darren Goddard of Force12Photography

Stainbank Nature reserve was an awesome setting for the first leg of provincial XC racing… I managed to bag my first win for 2010. Andrew Warr rode in his typical attacking style but couldn’t hold on – he went off the front with Themba on the 3rd lap and i had to chase hard to reel them in.

Well done to JT for kicking some butt and coming in 2nd in his debut XC race (Veteran category). Respect.

Themba (Dave Leiman) is riding like a madman to come in 3rd. We are going to have a great Sani2C this year, sky is the limit man!

Cheers Roan

Photo credit: Grant Dekker