Spur High School League race
Sanibonani,
The Spur High School Mountain bike League has kicked off on Saturday in Contermanskloof.
We left Kayamandi at 08:00 on Saturday for Contermanskloof and we got there in time for the registration and warm.
We had 3 kids on the 13-14; 4 kids on the 15-16 (youth) and 4 on the 17-18 (juniors).
They all did very well and they had lots of fun.
Azukile and Sipho did very well on the juniors as they did the race last year as well.
Sipho finished on the 3rd place.
It was a great day for our winter as it was not raining.
They are now looking forward to the Die Burger Challenge on Saturday.
The mountain bike group consist of school going and lost of unemployed young mans that we are doing our best to keep them out drugs and crime.
It is not easy for those young man to just do sport and stay out of trouble as in the Township is always a challenge for these young man as it is seen as a cool thing to do drugs or to be drank but I do believe that with God there is nothing impossible.
Many thanks to Arina and Meurent Botha for the Entries.
Many thanks to Raino for the transport to the race.
DUESOUTH Xterra presented by Rehidrat
Molweni
Last week Monday Kathleen and I we left Kayamandi for Knysna at 09:30 with 3 kids Odwa; Nicholas and Sipho and we were there about 15:30. We stayed in Goose Vellay in Plettenburg Bay.
On Tuesday evening Odwa; Nicholas and Kathleen did the 11km night trail run while Sipho and I went riding. Nicholas finished 2nd and Odwa on the 3rd place. On Wednesday we show them around Plett and Tsitsikama and we show them the bungy jump as well.
On Thursday went to Knysna for the XTERRA Odwa and Nicholas did the lite while Sipho and I did the full.
Odwa and Nicholas they clean up the field on the 1st 3km run and they were caught up on the mountain bike.
Nicholas finished 2nd overall and 1st on the individuals he was sitting on the 5th place when he finished the mountain bike leg as a good run he make up lot of time on the run.
On the full race Sipho lost some time on the run but he made up a good time on the mountain bike leg and they caught him again on the 7km run.
Sipho finished 20 overall and 4th place on juniors at a time of 1:58,58 the race was won by Kevin Evans 1:39,24 it was a very nice race .
Thanks to Michael Meyer and stillwatersport for the entries.
Grabouw Triathlon 2010
Race report by Songo Fipaza
On Saturday at 06:00 my kids and I we left Kayamandi for Grabouw.
We got at Grabouw at 07:15 and went for the registration and did the warm up.
The juniors started their race at 08:30 with 2.5 km run; 13km ride and run 1 km so the juniors it was Abongile and Lubabalo.
They started the run together as Abongile was the youngest on the race Lubabalo ran with him all the way for the 2.5 km run and they were the last once to finish the run.
On the ride Lubabalo chase the leaders and he manage to ketch them and he was on the 2nd place on the bike and he went for the 1km run.
He ran very well the win as saved by the finish line as Lubabalo was very close to him.
It was a great ride by my kids and you have remember that it was on road duathlon and my kids were racing with their mountain bikes.
At 10:00 the 16year and open started and my kids dominated the 5km run and they were in 2nd; 3rd; 5th; 7th places and they did very well the first 5km but they could not hold on as they were on mountain bike and everyone was on road bikes.
The distances were 5km run; 26km ride and 2.5km run.
They did very well and from my kids Thembisile was the first one to finish and followed by Sipho and Azukile.
I was very impressed by their performance and they are looking forward to the next event.
Thank you for give these kids a chance to show their talent.
Kind regards,
Songo Fipaza
Robertson Winery MTB Challenge
The songo boys did the Robertson mountain bike race over the weekend.
On Friday afternoon they meet up to clean the bikes and Reginald who joined them and help to fix all the bikes for them.
On Saturday we left Kayamandi at 05:00 am and we registered for the race,
I did the 42 km; 11 did the 29 km and Abongile a 12 year old BMXer and Yoliswa did the 12km.
The weather was very good and good turn up as well.
All the people who are not PPA member had to start last as they were starting in groups from A to Z and temporal licence rides started at last.
As my kids had to start at the back the had to play catch up all the way.
Sipho managed claim the 3rd place on the 29km while Yoliswa claim a 2nd on ladies on the 12km and Abongile finished 3rd on the kids on the 12km.
Sipho did the cross country in Durbanville on Sunday and he was leading the under 23 on the first lap and he got a puncture on the second lap and he also crashed.
We helped him to fix his puncture and he went back he did well and we will see on the next XC and it will be close to Stellenbosch and we would be able to take more kids.
Watch the space very soon the songo boys will be claiming all the podiums.
Thank you all for your support without you we will not be able to give these kids a chance.
Thank you,
Christoph Sauser wins 2010 Trans Germany!
It does feels great to win a stage race! Over all those days to bring it home worth much more then just a one day race.
Over 30km/h was our average speed! Probably my fastest race ever on a mountain bike. It was a lot of asphalt though, but no tail wind. My Stumpjumper 29er again, was a real bomb! Once that thing was on speed you more and less have to break it down only 
On the very last climb which was steep, technical and slippery, Albanator, Robert and myself broke away. The two are Ergon-Topeak teammates, and the chance of a double victory made them or us going super fast on the last 15km on gravel roads towards the “Bodensee”. Always 45km/h! I did not know that I can ride so fast on a mountain bike.
Many thanks to Sandy and Claire for the great support! Claire had a pretty stressful time, not missing or missing the feeds. So it has been for all the other teams too. GPS, Google maps and paper maps just don’t help much when there is traffic jam, accidents or the police does road closures.
