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| 26.01.2012 |
Appends to race/event: 22.01.2012 // Cape Cobra Challenge Cape Town, RSA
85km, 2.13hrs
8th place around 1.30' down to winner Darren Lill
I was really excited for this road race since there was a mountain top finish, plus the route was spectacular through the most beautiful parts of the Cape. The final climb was not very steep, but around 30km before the finish we had to race up a switchback climb which was super steep and on concrete. On my racing wheels I used a 11-25 cassette which made me almost cry at the end of the climb. I really missed my 27, since I like to spin the gears. After I changed my attitude and looked at it as a low cadence power workout I was almost fine again!
But that climb was not the real decider, before we broke away a 14 man group. Bonitsa (RSA's best road team) attacked in our breakaway non stop, and they're fastest man Darren Lill rode us off and soloed alone to the finish...
I was pulling a little on the last climb, but if you don't have the real attacking power, then forget it! So as in the final sprint.... I was really happy with my first race of the season though. I pushed 270 wattages average.
From the finish line we cruised down in the mist towards Camps Bay for hitting the beach with a very deserved late breakfast. Not sure if it was my appetite, but those scramble eggs with salmon tasted the best ever!
Name: Race Time: Position: Gender: Gender Position: Start Group: Group Position: Age Group: Age Position: Avg. Speed:
Lill, Darren (Bonitas) 2:10:11 32/1141 M 27/993 EL 1/98 M 30-34 3/112 39.18
Rabie, Johann (Bonitas) 2:11:55 33/1141 M 28/993 EL 2/98 M Elite 1/70 38.66
McLeod, Ian (Bonitas) 2:12:10 34/1141 M 29/993 EL 3/98 M 30-34 4/112 38.59
Fouche, Herman (Bonitas) 2:12:11 35/1141 M 30/993 EL 4/98 M Elite 2/70 38.58
Ihlenfeldt, Stefan (Smith & Assosiate) 2:12:30 36/1141 M 31/993 EL 5/98 M U23 2/56 38.49
Venter, Jaco (NuWater/CTM) 2:12:31 37/1141 M 32/993 EL 6/98 M Elite 3/70 38.49
Keey, Charles 2:12:37 38/1141 M 33/993 EL 7/98 M Elite 4/70 38.46
Sauser, Christoph 2:12:50 39/1141 M 34/993 EL 8/98 M 35-39 4/188 38.39
Munnik, Oliver 2:12:51 40/1141 M 35/993 EL 9/98 M Elite 5/70 38.39
Garrett, David (Daikin GU) 2:12:52 41/1141 M 36/993 EL 10/98 M 35-39 5/188 38.38
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| 21.01.2012 |
Appends to race/event: 14.01.2012 // Totalsports Challenge Kleinmond, RSA
Finally pictures online!
        
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| 16.01.2012 |
Appends to race/event: 14.01.2012 // Totalsports Challenge Kleinmond, RSA
First Place
It was good to be in a competitive racing team again!
Last year we put a fun mixed team together. The waiting for my mtb leg- which is second last of the seven disciplines- made my cry already last year.
This year the race was packed with full of action! We were lying in second, when my time was to come for to shoot out for my 25km mountain bike leg. Our canoeist gave me the hand over about 15sec after David George already took off for the mtb. I passed him pretty quickly and managed to give our Zimbabwe runner a 6' lead into the beach run. So we did it!
Those team events are pretty hectic, since nobody want to let the team down, especially when you do not have a designated start time. That I must admit, makes me pretty nervous.
I always have coffee at the nearby Arabella golf resort before my start and wait for the call from the team manager to head over. As you can see, I try to give away a little bit of timing responsibility... I make sure I have payed my coffee before hand. Sometimes to get a bill here in South Africa can take a little while.
Pictures online in the next few days.
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| 12.01.2012 |
Training, training, training... I want racing! But luckily I am in Stellenbosch! The conditions are perfect as always and it is much more living then "russian style" training camp!
Although sometimes I think I have to toughen up before my hard training sessions, but once I am pedaling I am actually ending up pushing the pedals harder then is suppose to do. It really helps when you meet somebody for the rides, so there is a designated start time. But I always end up in a rush, because there is always something is forget. Sun lotion, heart rate monitor, pumping tires... but I never try to make up a excuse when I arrive 5' or so minutes too late
I love mixing the normal training routines up here and there, without loosing my focus. For example heading out to Cape Town early and starting the day with a coffee at the beach followed by a ride afterwards, or doing a nice sunset ride later in the day.
Our annual wine tour ride on the 31.12. was more about wine then riding. Like usual! Somehow I always end up super "tired in my head", and after I am back home again I feel like sleeping over the year change. Who cares? If we would not have watches we would not even feel or recognize that there is a year change... :-)
       
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| 20.12.2011 |
Time is flying as we all know... Now I am in South Africa again preparing for the new season. Legs are hurting but I am getting into a good training routine. It feels nice to sweat again and pushing the body. On the other side I don't have plenty energy left for something else. The moments when lying down where ever is the best!
Below a selection of pictures of my November and December. I wish I could show you some winter pictures as well, but what can you do when there was not enough snow!?
                
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| 19.12.2011 |
Here's a blog from our Sunday's ride. Thanks Oli for writing it!
Link 1: http://olivermunnik.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/a-rad-weekend-which-...
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| 14.11.2011 |
Appends to race/event: 11.11.2011 - 13.11.2011 // Wines2Whales, RSA
Great times again at Wines2Whales, a 3 day stage race from the wine lands to the sea. Unfortunately the last stage got cancelled due very heavy rain and cold temperatures, so non of us seen the sea. It was a wise decision by the organizer, because lots of us have been underdressed, so as the rescue helicopter could not fly ether.
Thanks to Stillwatersports who chosen songo.info as official charity since the last two years! It offers us a big platform for raising money for songo.info.
Burry Stander, Giniel de Villiers (Rally Dakar Champ), Dan Hugo (2nd XTerra World Champs) Darren Lill (SA Road Champ) Oliver Munnik (best spoken young SA talent) and myself we got auctioned off to ride with us. Some of our partners we already knew from last year and some were „w2w greenhorns“.I loved the comradeship and fun we had.
More on www.songo.info or www.wines2whales.co.za
           
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| 27.10.2011 |
Absa Cape Epic Cycling Team 36ONE-SONGO-SPECIALIZED to defend title in 2012
36ONE Asset Management today announced their continued support of the winning team from the Absa Cape Epic 2011, Team 36ONE-SONGO-SPECIALIZED as they look set to defend their title in 2012. This association forms part of a 3 year sponsorship of the team.
Organisers of the Absa Cape Epic officially launched the route for the 2012 event at a press conference held in Cape Town on the 25th October. The ninth edition of the Absa Cape Epic takes place from 25 March to 1 April 2012, and offers participants a demanding eight day mountain bike adventure of 780km with 16 300m of climbing from Durbanville to Lourensford Wine Estate.
The 2012 route will lead 1 200 athletes, including world champions and dedicated amateurs through the stage locations of Robertson, Caledon and Oak Valley with the finish at the famous Lourensford Wine Estate, as has been tradition since 2007.
For the fourth time in the Absa Cape Epic’s history, riders will compete in a prologue. A common feature in grand road cycling tours, the prologue on the Meerendal Wine Estate just outside Durbanville, will allow spectators to see teams race against the clock. This event will decide which teams will wear the coveted leaders’ jerseys at the start of stage 1 on Monday, 26 March 2012, in Durbanville.
36ONE Asset Management assessed the strategic fit of the team sponsorship with their brand values and found that the business of investment and asset management shared many synergies with the ethos of this cycling team. Being part of a fast-paced and dynamic industry, a collaborative and results driven approach is paramount to the success of any investment. The effective management of a cycling team aligns with this thought process.
Sport inspires people to do great things, to achieve excellence through dedication and informed decision making. 36ONE Asset Management aspires to create greatness for their portfolio of clients. By changing the lives of the children of songo.info in Kayamandi, giving them the right tools and advice to achieve their goals, 36ONE Asset Management are confident that their brand embraces the qualities of a noble and strategic partner.
The preliminary team members who will represent Team 36ONE-SONGO-SPECIALIZED in 2012 will consist of renowned professional riders; Former Cross Country World Champion and current Marathon World Champion, Christoph Sauser and Multiple African Mountain Bike Champion Burry Stander, along with Kayamandi’s rising Stars Azukile Simayile and Siphosenkosi Madolo of the songo.info program. The Absa Cape Epic features 2-man teams and Burry and Christoph will form the Pro Team, whilst Team Two is made up of Azukile and Sipho.
During the Absa Cape Epic 2012 event, the 36ONE Asset Management PR team will bring fans unique behind the scenes images, video clips and up to the minute news and results from each stage of the event on a daily basis.
For Updates and further information Visit http://www.facebook.com/36ONEAssetManagement
Follow 36ONE Asset Management on Twitter: @36ONE and songo.info on @songoinfo
Join Burry and Christoph this Saturday 29th October at Valverde for an out-ride through the Magaliesberg, followed by a fundraiser event at Fire and Ice in Melrose. Visit http://www.songo.info/ for further details.
About 36ONE Asset Management
36ONE Asset Management is an independent, owner-managed specialist investment manager. The highly skilled team is renowned for its top performing unit trusts, hedge funds and private client portfolios. 36ONE Asset Management are the headline sponsor of Team 36ONE-SONGO-SPECIALIZED.
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For Media Queries please contact:
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| 24.10.2011 |
Appends to race/event: 17.10.2011 - 22.10.2011 // Cape Pioneer Trek, RSA
6 days/stages, 660km, 13'500m of climbing, 29.24hrs of racing,
6 stage wins, 5th overall, lots of minutes or hours behind winner 360life...
I partnered up with South African Max Knox for this years Cape Pioneer. A strong and very fun partner, all I needed for extending my racing holidays.
Also two songo.info kids took part. Siuvyile and Bongani two already experienced stage racers had a solid ride. For once I was looking after riders, but I promise township kids are very low maintainance, not like we world cup racers...
Our race is quickly written down: On day one I took a short cut, there I lost Max, he was waiting for me on the route and I was waiting for him at the last water point... finally I had to ride back in the hope he was not too far away! We lost so much time right there, plus we also got a 1h time penalty for leaving the route. Anyway after that we won all the other stages, except the one day where we rode through a „bed“ of thorns and we ended up pumping our tires for half of the race. We ended up finishing the race with 3 different pumps. The last one we borrowed was my favorite!
Anyway next to racing I came here to have fun, and so we did!
The organizer Dryland, Bigshot Media, Paul the commentator and all other staff plus riders are making this race so enjoyable. The finisher party at Lemon & Lime is becoming a legend, and what happens there should stay there...
I am writing this in a nice coffee shop in Cape Town with sea view. Tomorrow I am flying up to Johannesburg for almost a week. The days are going to be busy with, live on Supercycling, Cape-Epic route launch, 36ONE Asset Management breakfast interviews, songo.info charity ride with brunch, songo.info Charity evening with auction. So far to my after season holidays...
(pictures from Zoon Cronje and Oakpics)
                
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| 18.10.2011 |
Appends to race/event: 09.10.2011 // Roc d Azur Cross Country, FRA
Few cool Roc pictures
      
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