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Glencoe Street festival Mountain bike race - 16 June

This event will be staged for the 2nd time. A new track has been design with a lot of free flowing single track.Entrants has an option of a 25km or a 2 lap 50km event.

Farewell

We wish Gary and Marianne Geoghegan best of luck. They have moved to Australia. Gary’s passion for cycling had been a great inspiration to all of us. We hope to see them again.

Newcastle MTB Fun ride - 27 June

The club will be staging an informal funride from the Waterside Wimpy on 20 June Sunday afternoon 13:00. Entry fee for the event is R30 for adults and R20 for children. All entrants will receive a hotdog afterwards. There will be no medals, just a family fun event. The ride will take place next to the Waterside Wimpy with a easy course for everyone.

Mooi River Mad Max Mountain Bike race 2010/04/04

Well done to Garren Souter for a overall 2nd position and 1st category position in the 55km event. Wimpie Rouwenhorst came in 15th position and 3rd in his age category. Stable Jenni once again obtained a 2nd overall and category position in the 55km event.
Club results for the event:

55KM RACE
Pos	Race No	Name	Age	Gender	Time	Category	Cat Pos	Gen Pos	Status
1	3981	Winning time	28	Male	02:12:29	Under 30's Men	1	1	Finished
2	3008	GARREN SOUTAR	32	Male	02:17:20	+30's Men	1	2	Finished
15	8626	WIMPIE ROUWENHORST	27	Male	02:40:21	Under 30's Men	3	14	Finished
17	4888	JENNIFER SOUTAR	29	Female	02:41:38	+30's Female	2	2	Finished

35KM RACE
Pos	Race No	Name	Age	Gender	Time	Category	Cat Pos	Gen Pos	Status
1	4320	Winning time	22	Male	01:40:12	Under 30's Men	1	1	Finished
43	8638	ELIZIAH BOSHOFF	22	Female	02:37:06	Under 30's Female	5	8	Finished

Normandien 2 day MTB tour

The annual tour where once again a huge success. This year a total of 21 riders took part. Although March seems to be a good option for the future, the weather will always be an unpredictable factor. On Saturday morning we kicked of with a strong wind and a short spell of rain on top of Normandien pass. Fortunately the wind remained in the same direction and came in handy on the last climb of the day just before Kranskop. On day 2 we could not have asked for better weather. We kicked off the day with a egg & bacon roll. Cycling got underway at 8:30 and every one reached the farm at 12:30. Thanks to Charlie’s Spar that supplied us with all the food & groceries. Hope to see all next year !

New 2010 CSA Licenses 19/03/2010

A new batch of licenses has arrived at Triathlon Cycles. Please make arrangements to collect.
Cards available from the shop are as follow:

Ken Vorster
Martin Els
Ruan van der Wouden
Schmidt Venter
Jeremy van der Watt
Adee Bosman
Frik Cronje
John Solms
Trevor Stedman
De Villiers Meintjies

Sani2C Full Report 04-06 /03/2010

Elite mountain bike members, Garren Soutar, AC Swanepoel and Jenni Soutar competed in this years Sani2C from 4th to 6th March. This race requires riders to race in pairs, so Garren and AC raced together and Jenni rode with Shale Exelby.

There was a lot of rain in the area in the days preceding the race, so day required a fair amount of skill to get through some of the slippery single track. Garren and AC started in B batch and managed to break away from the bunch early in the day and raced had to catch some of the slower riders from A batch and finished in a credible 30th position for the 82km day 1. Jenni and Shale had a steady day and ended the day in 8th position in the ladies pairs.

Unfortunately the weather conditions didn’t improve much over night and the race organisers were forced to cut out the 20km single track section leading into the Umkomaas Valley. Instead we raced on very slippery forestry roads to meet up with the original route after about 40km. Day two was 97km long and had a compulsory 10 min stop at half way. Garren and AC raced hard up to the half way stop after starting the day in A batch, but lost a few positions in the second half of the day, but still managed to hold on to their 30th position. Jenni and Shale showed their endurance and rode well together to make up a considerable amount of time on the other ladies and finished the day still in 8th position, but very close to the teams in front of them.

Day 3 started out with perfect riding conditions, most of the mud had dried up and the weather was still cool. Garren and AC set off fast with the intention of making up a few places over the final 71km, at the final water table they were well placed and feeling strong, so they put their heads down and worked really hard for the final 14km to finish 19th for the day. Jenni and Shale were going well until Jenni took quite a nasty fall and broke her rear brake lever and was forced to ride the final 25km with front brakes only.

In the end the riders did well, with Garren and AC finishing 28th overall and Jenni and Shale finishing 9th in the ladies race.

Sani2C 04-06 /03/2010

Congratulations to Garren, AC and Jenni with their great performance on this event. Garren & AC finished 26th and 30th on day 1 and 2 and came in 19th on day 3 netting an overall 267th position. Jenni finished 9th in the ladies team of 212 teams. She had a bit of a crash on day 3 which cost them quite a bit of time.

Eugene Bosch did the Adventure event and came in just over 17 hours.

Overall results:

Garren & AC 10:04:20

Jenni & partner 12:19:26

Eugene Bosch 17:00:00 Adventure series

Mcdonalds Road Race 21/03/2010

We will be supporting this event, look out for the club courtesy gazebo for something to drink after the event. Distances 120/80/40 km

2 Day Normandien social MTB tour 27&28/03/2010

A great social ride with friends on the in KZN and OFS
Entries for this event will only close on the 23rd of March
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Giants Castle Mountain bike challenge

There are quite a large number of club members that entered for this event. There is still some entries open. We will have the club Gazebo at this event.

KZN provincial colors 16/03/2010

The league series has been abandoned for the purpose of obtainingf KZN colours. Please look at the file KZN Application on how KZN colors could be obtained for 2010

Download KZN Application

MIDMAR NOTTS ROAD RACE 28/02/2010

This is absolutely a great event, pitty we cant move the venue up north. Winning time for the 80km ride where 1:55. The club where well represented in the event. Wimpy Hamilton where the clubs best rider on the day with 1:57 finishing time. Junior rider Ettienne Tack finished 4th in a time of 2:00:04. Badly luck Julius de Clercq the fall in the final bend cost him a definite 1st position and robbed him of a podium position.

KZN Road championships 06-07/02/2010

The KZN road championships for 2010 were staged at the Van der Merwe circuit just north of Camperdown. The route proved to be very hard with lots of hill climbs in extreme heat conditions. 2010 proved to be great for our N-KZN Triathlon Cycles club 13 riders entered the competition and 5 riders obtained podium positions(4 on the road race and one on the time trial). On behalf of the club we would like to thank all riders that entered the event.

Road race:

- Gary Geoghegan	Men 40-45	1st position
- Willie Rouwenhorst	Men 60+	2nd position
- Elizia Boshoff	Ladies Elite	3rd position
- Julius De Clercq	U/16	3rd position

Time Trial

- AC Swanepoel	Elite	2nd position

Barberton classic 31/01 2010

Congratulations to Garren & Jenni Soutar

There were 123 starters in the Ultra Marathon and only 52 finishers. Garren finished 27th overall in a time of 6:17:48. The route was about 130km long and included two big continuous climbs with the first one being a 940m vertical ascent over 13km and the second one being a 780m vertical ascent over 10km. The rest of the route was undulating without much technical riding, there were however several fairly deep river crossings because of all the rain that had fallen in the previous week.

Jenni finished 15th lady in the standard marathon (75km) after a bit of a disappointing ride by her standards, but I am sure she will be back on the podium at her next race.
Overall position of 141st out of 432 entrants.

Chemlsford Triathlon 31/01/2010

Monica Botha finished 1st lady in the event.

Thanks to Marianne& Gary Geoghegan, Ken Vorster and his wife Hester as well as Madelein van der Linde who assisted with the race organizing. The event was well organized and a great success. A big thank you to the Newcastle Swimming club for accommodating us with their swim event and Amajuba district council for their sponsorship of the event.

KZN Triathlon championships

Congratulations to Jody Mitchell who got a 3rd place in his category 65-70 35-39 on the championships. His time of 02:23:37 not far off the winning time of pro Claude Eksteen 02:00:44