Result: 1st Overall
What felt like a pure summers storm swept through Ballito on Saturday night and absolutely drenched Holla Trails. And yet we were greeted by spectacular weather on Sunday morning. These are actually my favourite conditions, warm and sunny yet extremely slippery and muddy. It was set to be a fun days racing.
Felt great to roll out of bed and drive about 2kms to the start on Sunday morning. Not often us Ballito folk get races on our doorstep so was a nice change. There was such a cool vibe at the race venue with all the Varsity College students getting involved.
It was a very fast start to the first run with Gareth taking off out the holla gates. It soon became a bit of a comedy fest when we hit the first descent and realised there was absolutely zero traction, this led to some quite funny shouting and arm waving as we all tried to stay upright. Soon after that Derrin and John managed to get away and that left myself, Dan and Gareth chasing. We came into transition 50 seconds down on the leaders.
After a hard early effort on the bike I got onto the wheel of Derrin and John and chose not to attack until we reached the only single track section on the route. I managed to get a gap on Derrin after some serious dodging of the back markers of the MTB races which had started just before us. I kept a good solid pace the rest of the bike and got off with a comfortable lead.
This allowed me to take no risks on the treacherous final run route as I managed to bring it home for the win, ahead of Derrin in 2nd and John in 3rd. Was great to get a win on home ground and with so many locals at the event. It was as always a very well run event and good to see Varsity College getting so involved in our sport. Also very stoked that my personal sponsors Powasol were on hand to get the bikes looking like new again after such a muddy ride.
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