Xterra South Africa 2010
On Saturday the Songo.info team were in Grabouw to participate in the 2010 Xterra South African Championships. Race report by Songo Fipaza and official race images to follow shortly. Thank you to Michael Meyer and his team from Stillwater Sports for their support on the day.
We left Kayamandi at 19:00 on Friday and we made a stop at Pick’n Pay to get some food for the night.
The drive to Grabouw did not feel long as the kids we so happy and talking a lot on the taxi. We arrived at the Grabouw Country Club at 20:50 and offloaded our bikes and parked them in the medical tent. We then put up our tents, had dinner and all of us got to bed early as it was a long day coming up.
Our day started at 06:15 as we went to support the start of the trail run at 06:30. This was followed by breakfast and registration and all the kids were in good spirit and ready to have a goodtime. We had 10 international students from the University Stellenbosch swimming for us as part of the Songo.info teams. They arrived at 09:30 and had enough time to meet up with all their team mates for the day.
The 1.5km swim started at 11:00 and Deanna Price an American student was out first and she was in the top 20 and she tag Ndiphe. Kaitlin Kitchen also came out and tags Siphenathi and he was out on his mountain bike leg chasing Ndiphe. Melody Knight ; Carien Van Caam; Callie Cutler; JP Philipp they also came out following one other and Sipho was the 6th one to go from my kids and he was first to come back from my kids and tag Litha who went out as if he was running 100m. Litha ran 46 minutes for the 10km and that was a great team.
Sipho was followed by Thembisile; Ndiphe and Siphenathi on the Mountain bike leg. On the run it was Sandiso, Azukile who finished 10 minutes after Litha. The 3 girls ran very well and that was Daphne; Yolisw and Lavisa.
Odwa had some mechanical problems and he was out there for a long time and he was the last one from my group to come back and tag Elijah who ran 45 minutes for the 10km leg.
It was a great weekend for my kids and they all enjoy it very much.
Thank you very much to the following people who swim for us: Jay Philipp; Kaitlin Kitchen; Melody Knight; Deanna Price; Christina Hertner; Carien van Caam; Philip Gilman; Callie Cutler and Philipp Moehring.
Thank you very much to Mike Leslie from the ISOS for organizing transport for my swimmers.
Many thanks to Stillwater Sports for the entries we truly appreciate.
Thank you very much to all of our supports out there you’re truly making a difference in the lives of the children of Kayamandi.
Thank you,
Songo Fipaza
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