Sabie Classic 2011 - Two day event

[Mets]

I was doing a bit of planning for the events of 2011 when I saw that the Sabie Classic half marathon will be taking place on Sunday 27/02/2011! The marathon and ultra are still on the Saturday and I’m so disappointed that the event has been split into two days.

Surely this will detract from the interest in the event as there will no doubt be people who’ll refuse to race on the Sunday.

We always like to camp, now we’ll have to do the race, brake up camp and drive the 200+ kilometers back home all on one day to be back at work on Monday – stukkend from all the rush of the Sunday.

What about husband and wife combo’s where the husband is doing the longer distances and the wife the shorter (or vice versa – sorry ladies) – now the whole weekend will be spend waiting for the other partner to finish their races.

 

One of the nicest thing of this race (for me) is pitching at the start and seeing almost 4000 riders - the buzz and excitement is unique to the Sabie.

 

I think this idea sucks and doubt whether I’ll be attending – even though I would have loved to this race for a fourth time in a row.

[Daniel XTR]

I think that its fantastic. A whole weekend of racing.

thank you.

Get to ride 100k, on Sat and then 45 on Sunday. Brilliant!

[ZOINCS]

This is the same formatt for Barbeton and looks like the whole MTN/Mi way series but could be mistaken