Veldrif 100 plus Road Race

[Bosveldklong]

Ingeskryf!

 

 

[City Cycling Athletic Club]

Do I have to get a CSA license for the race?

if you are racing - yes , if you are riding the funride - no

[Guest DieBees]

Who was the first three guys over the line?

[Pure Savage]

Who was the first three guys over the line?

 

I know there were 2 giant guys that came over 1 and 2.

[Pure Savage]

 

David 1st and James 2nd.

[Guest DieBees]

 

David 1st and James 2nd.

 

Thanks.

[Pure Savage]

Race report from Cat 3.

 

http://teampuresavage.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-bergriver-festival-cape-town-to.html

 

Awesome day out! Very well run event. Congrats to the organisers!

[City Cycling Athletic Club]

1.David Garrett - Giant

2.James Tennant - Giant

3.Pete Nelson

4.Rassie Smit

5.Jaco Davel

6.Chris Cronje

 

this is from memory.

 

The scratch +1 (sub vet, vets , masters) had a 10 minute start on Scratch but we weakend the scratch +1 by taking out the strong subvets and adding them to scratch which evened up the numbers. in hindsight we should of then given scratch + 1 a larger time gap.

scratch +1 got thru Malmsbury and over the 1st big climb out of the town with their lead intact over scratch albeit down to about 5 minutes.

Team Giant used the climb to dislodge some of their group and made contact with scratch + 1 on the Hopefield Rd. on the way to Hopefield Giant attacked and only Pete Nelson was able to stay with the 2 Team Giants riders. there were not enough strong riders in the chasing group to close the gap on the 3 breakaway riders. once over the next big climb past Hopefield the road tilted downwards and the gap remained constant.

once on the R27 ,with 19 k's to the finish and a slight headwind - the gap started closing. David attacked in the last k and James looked at Pete. no words were necessary.

Rassie led the charge to the line and won the bunch sprint for fourth.

the winning time was 4hrs1min at an average of 37 something.

the distance 149,6 kms (now we know for sure).

 

well done to the 3 cat 3 riders who worked their butts off to stay ahead of the race. they had a 45 minute gap on Scratch - maybe next year we include cat 3 in the handicap race as scratch + 2.

Edited July 20, 2014 by WP Cycling events