My Saturday morning was well spent with my nose in some of my school books, studying for the upcoming exams on Wednesday, which is really close... My reward for that studying session would be a race in the afternoon at the famous Cascades MTB Park. I read about the Spur School series in an email from KZN MTB during the week and decided that I will go and do the race to get my mind off of the work for a bit.
Cascades was packed, full of children from the age of 8years old up to 18 ready to race and have fun on their bicycles. My race started at 3PM which was a very cool because i haven't done a race in the afternoon in a long time. As u18's we did 7 laps of a reasonably smooth track with single track and an uphill. Because i havent done one of these fast short race in a long time it was going to be hard and very fast, indeed it was with Carlo Marzoppi storming off of the front and riding away from us all. He is participating in the world championships in 6 days and his form is in very good shape so he destroid us at the back. I was in about 3 place throughout the first lap but dropped back into 6th on my second lap so that i could just breath and recover alittle bit again. I pushed myself at a consistant pase and got back into 4th position where i stayed for most of the race and finished in that position also.
It was one of the cleanest races that i've done in a long time with the riders having so much respect for each other and racing clean. The main reason for this is the school system that teaches the children to respect each other and the manners is absolutely great. It was also very nice to be able to race at the World Champs venue and to get a feel for some of the tracks that the best in the world will be racing on.
Thank you to Spur, Mongoose and all the organizers for such a cool event and one that i think all school learners should do.
Also to Lavinia Van Wyk for feeding me in the tech zone and to all the soectators for support and the photographers for the photos.
Jaco Pelser
Thanks to QuickPix for this photo
Riding up some of the switch backs. Thanks to Boogs Photography for these photos.
My BMC fourstroke.
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