Songo.info at the XC Provincial race in Stellenbosch
Songo Fipaza’s racereport from the weekend:
Yesterday morning the Songo boys and girl to part on the Western Province cross county finals.
They left Kayamandi at 08:00 and it was pouring with rain while they cycled to Coetzenburg where the event was.
The event started at 09:00 with the ladies at all ages.
Yoliswa was the only girl from the Songo.info after being sick for a week and she came and race with out training for 2 weeks.
Songo.info video 1 from ESPN Brazil
A Brazilian journalist who is a regular attendant at every years Cape Epic spent some of her time with Songo and the kids to make 2 small documentary films which have featured on ESPN brazil. This is the first of 2, will post up the second one in the near future. Enjoy!
Spur High School Race Gallery
Spur High School Mountain Bike League race
Molweni,
I would like to start up by saying thank you very much to Mearent and Arina Botha from Amarider for giving the Songo boys an great opportunity to participate in their races since last year.
They have provided entries and transport in to all the Spur High School league races since last year.
Many thanks to Contego for the trailer it makes my life very easy now with the trailer.
Yesterday afternoon the Songo boys took part on the second Spur high school league in Helderberg Farm in Somerset West.
The weather was nice and warm and there was a good tern up from school.
We left Kayamandi 13:45 so that we can be there in time for registration and warm up.
The kids did very well on the race as I picked them up from school with out eating lunch as they are no longer allowed to go home for lunch now any more.
On the first start-up group junior men (17-18) and intermediate men (19+) it was Azukile, Sandiso; Thabo; Luyolo; Siphenathi and Sipho.
They started very well Sipho was on the 2nd place on the first lap and crashed on the single track and Azukile and Sandiso we on the 6th and 7th.
Sipho finished in 4th and Siphenathi 8th they showed a lot of improvement from their last race.
My 12 year old Zola did very well as this was his second mountain bike race.
He say to me after his race they must watch out for the next one as he will come prepared as he was racing on a empty stomach.
I was running around getting everything ready for them and I for got to bay them food so they had to race with water.
I was very happy to see the excitement; passion; enjoyment; determination and aggression.
The next 2 league races will be on the 4th September in Princessvlei-Cape Town and on the 16th September in Helderberg Farm-Somerset West.
We would like to take the kids to Nationals on the 16 October 2010 in Johannesburg and things that are preventing them from going it is transport, accommodation and food.
It would be a great eye-opener and great motivation for them to race on the nationals.
Thank you all for all your support to the Songo project your impacting life in a great way.
Salani kakuhle;
Die Burger MTN Bike Challenge 2010
Last weekend the Songo kids took part in Die Burger Mountain Bike Challenge in Stellenbosch. It is known to be a challenging route and this time round Songo got some of them to write their own race reports.
My name is Sandiso Xetu and I am a member of Songo.info since January 2010.
I took part on the Die Burger Challenge on Saturday and I did the 30km.
I was on E start shot that started at 09:30 and I won my group and I broke away from my group and chase group D and I have managed to catch up most of the people in group D.
I told myself that next year I am going to wine the Die Burger race.
I have pushed very hard this year and next year I will push even harder to win it.
I also going to work hard in all the races so that I can start on the front group as it is not easy to pass the slow ride in the groups that started before me.
There were so many people on the race and it was not easy to pass them as most of them were just working in front of me.
I had lots of fun on the race and I am very grateful for the opportunity.
Thank you!!!
From Sandiso Xetu
Race Report from Bongani Bhusakhwe
We left Kayamandi at 07:30 and we were there at 07:45 but I only started at 09:15 I was in group C.
I had a good race as I left my group after 5 km and chase the group in front of me.
I have managed to catch up many people and I finished on the top 30 in overall on the 30km.
I could have catch up more people but when you get to a 28km point there is a bridge were all the races go in before the finish and that is were all the 15km people were pushing their bikes so I had to wait for them.
I have enjoyed the race very much the route was great.
I started at 09:15 and 10:30 I was finished!
Thank you,
Azukile’s Race report of the Die burger Challenge
My name is Azukile Simayile and I am a member of the Songo.info since last year.
I took part on the Die Burger Mountain Bike Challenge on Saturday in Stellenbosch.
It was a great day and the weather was good and for the first time it did not rain a day before so the route was nice and dry.
There was a lot of sand on the route and when you get to the sandy part most people just push their bikes and it was not easy to pass them at all.
On the last 4 km and I catch up with lots of people from the 15km and it was mostly children and they were allover the road so I couldn’t pass them.
It was a great day and I have enjoyed myself a lot.
Thank you,
Azukile
