Xterra Witklip

Rain once again greeted us for the 3rd leg of the SA Xterra series.

Result: 2nd overall

Witklip dam is really scenic, unfortunately the organisers changed the bike course at the last minute saying that it was "too muddy" for the competitors !!?? This definitely weighed against the people with better technical skills - the new course was just open fire roads with the occasional slippery patch.

The swim put me 4 min off the leader and I only managed to bike into second place, 1min 30s behind. Pure speed was the order of the day for the run leg. Nothing challenging or interesting at all for the atletes, it was basically a road run.

Well, I am really looking forward to the final event at Grabouw. Hopefully the organisers use some of the awesome terrain and singletrack in the course like they did last year!

Mudman Offroad Triathlon

Stealing the Biscuit !

1st Overall

Its all coming together - coming out of the water in 6th position, I managed to catch everyone mid way through the 20km bike course. This allowed me to relax (!??) for the rest of the race and put about 5 min into Anton Storm who had JP van der Linde hot on his heels.

Hermansberg school put on an amazing display of hospitality with loads of german "kuchen", "bratwurst" and even an OOOOOOMPAH band to entertain the spectators.