Bo Piketberg MTB race

[KevinG]

Did anybody do the Piketberg MTB race yesterday? What did you think? What can be improved on this new event?

[Marius]

Me and Lilo did it. I did the "59km" and she did the "37km"

 

Firstly I'll mention things you should Not change - The Marking on route was brilliant, more so the Locals at the turn off were very supportive, they all deserve a pat on the back, the one even helped push me up a little hill +1 there.

 

Water Points, I did not stop at any but I should have, Lilo told me they had little chocolates already opened and ready to eat at some of the water points, good stuff!

 

Technically I'd not change the route, I found the downhills rid-able at fast speeds so that's always nice after we spend hours climbing.

 

What I did not like about the race or rather the info we received Re: Distance and Total Climbing was not accurate. The 59km was in fact closer to 63km and the 37km was just over 40km's - the total Ascent for the 63km was between 1600-1700m and the 40km was 1000m.

 

The only thing I'll change about the race is the distance, spending almost 4hours on 60km mtb is to much.

[AuctionLamb]

If you want numbers to come to your race you should make the medium route a lot easier, the route is waaayyyy too difficult for a "normal" MTB'er so tackle.

 

Like Marius said, the marking was brilliant, I got lost at one stage where you go up and reached a dead-end at the tar road just before joining the medium route.

 

ONE HECTIC RIDE!!!!!

[Marius]

Lilo's father almost did not make it to the finish, his only been cycling for a month of 3 now and it was his 3rd Mrb race, not sure if well get him to do another Mtb race after that:P - Like Auction Lamb says, it's not for the Av Joe Smoe doing 1 or 2 training rides a week.

[MariusL]

Bo_piketberg just sounded too hard for me (I'm a roadie in disguise), so i didn't enter... sounds like my initial thoughts were spot on.