Subaru Classic

On Sunday it was the first classic race of Kwa-Zulu Natal, which include a 40km, 20km and a 10km race. Carlo Marzoppi did the MTN Barberton race in Mpumalanga on the Saturday were he won the Youth age Category and 6th overall in the 45km, he then stayed at my house for the night after a long drive back. In the morning I got up checked my weight and had some breakfast with Carlo. As we got to the race venue at Cedara College it was filling up fast and a lot of top class riders was there, including Luke Roberts(RE:CM), Brandon Stewart and Jacques Rossouw(both Fed Group) and also some other juniors like Kyle Dorkin(Ellsworth-SA) and Patrick Belton(Jeep). It was going to be a super hard race from the start. This year i have moved up from the Youth age group into Juniors and in cycling it is a big difference when your at the bottom of the age group.
On the start line I was in the middle of the A Batch and off we went, I was caught up in the traffic up the first little hill where a rider crashed. Next to was Eszter Erdelyi(Ellsworth-SA) and that's when I realised I'll have to make a sprint and catch up to the brake away group of 6 riders who already had a big gap. I knew I had a team mate, Alan Hatherly,in the brake and made it my aim to catch up to him.. In the end I never made it to there and finished in 12th place overall. The form wasn't there on that day and I knew I would need to go back to the drawing board... However I ended in 3rd place in the Junior age category, but far behind Kyle Dorkin(2nd) and Patrick Belton(1st). Well done guys!

Thank you Gavin Ryan for the picture

I now have something to aim at and to improve on, and hope to keep on pushing for that Top 10!! Thanks to my team for all their support and my sponsors. BMC was design for pure mountain biking and handled the very bumpy race superbly!!