Lorensford Classic 2009
Race report by Songo Fipaza
Dear Songo Team,
It is always a great honour for me to report about the kids.
On Saturday we took part on the Lourensford mountain bike race.
It was a very beautiful day and the kids were very excited and ready for it.
We had 5 kids doing the 58 KM; 7 did the 32 KM and 2 girls doing 15 km.
The kids are improving everyday it always great to see them in action.
I was with the kids that did the 58 KM; you should have seen them at the start and they were all very focused and ready for action.
They started very well and just after 5 km there were couple of hills and my kids were flying up as if there were something pushing them behind.
I was listening to other riders on the race saying wow what do they eat and some saying they look very neat.
It was Sivuyile Kephelele in the second leading pack and he was looking very strong and behind him it was Sipho going very strong as well.
Sivuyile manage to stay with that pack until the last 8 km where it was a very technical down hill.
He crashed on the last 2.5 km as he was going fast on the down hill he heats the hole and that was the end of his race.
He bent the front wheel and his eye go hit his is still in Somerset West hospital and the will send him to Tygerburg hospital to have a look on his eye.
I was with him until 19:30 and he is fine just the eye and his face got very swollen.
Sipho was just about 500 m behind him when he crashed and he says it was a very bad fall he had the noise when he went down.
Sipho stayed with him until he got helped and many thanks to Meurant the races organiser who was running around and making calls for Sivuyile to get a help that he needed.
Meurant still managed to call me at 18:30 on Saturday to find out how was the boy doing? Thank you very much Meurant your support means a lot.
The rest of the kids did very well and I am very proud of the 2 girls that did very well on their first race.
On the 32 km it was a very close call between my three boys Unathi; Siyabulela and Mava the work together all the way and it was the sprint to the finish.
Many thanks Arina and Meurant Botha from Dirtopia and Amarider for sponsoring entries for my kids.
Many thanks to Arina Botha for all your great work; when we got to the registration the numbers for my kids were put aside with the names of the kids at the back of the number.
Thank you very much Arina I was very honoured by your great assistant.
Thank you very much to Sarah Horrop for the Epic footages my kids watch that all the time on a day before the race even the new kids now know who is Christoph and Burry.
Many thanks to JAG Foundation for providing the transport for the kids into all the events that they have been doing through out the year.
Many thanks to all of you for the role you play in the lives of the kids of Kayamandi.
There are so many people that are very supportive and even on the races the riders always speaking positive to my kids thank you all.
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