It started off right next to the new MOSES MABIDA stadium, was really amazing, but back to the racing. It was quite a chilled start and the batch was about 40 people, all u/16.
About 2km into the race there was an attack, nothing scary but we reeled him in and he was quiet for the rest of the race. Then the pace was really slow and it was frustrating. We finally arrived to the first climb, at the 15km mark. The bunch decreased in a matter of seconds which was good, there were now six of us, all of them racing road nationally. The climb was only about 7km long but as soon as we hit it the first of many attacks were launched, one after the other, it was going crazy, any way we tried hard to get away, James Wewege and my self, were working as a team and even that didn’t get us away, but as soon as we caught the guy that tried to brake away the pace decreased to about 10km/h at times. It was really annoying; no one wanted to pull, so we all got to the top all together.
From the top it was down hill all the way to the highway , reaching speeds of 70km/h, the restricted gears on our bikes made it hard to stay with the other 100km riders but the group managed to stay together , still more attacks were lunched but none succeeded. We all knew it would come to a sprint when we got to the top together. This wasn’t really cool; I don’t dig road sprints, so I pulled the guys to the line from about 5km to go. I tried to lead out James but the other guys were much faster. Anyway i ended up in 6th place just rolled over the line.
The best past of the race was when we were at the finish line and I was chooning all the roadies, telling them that you got to be crazy to do road and that they were missing out big time on not doing mtb,
