ESTON ILLOVO

it started off at an extremely fast pace because the king of the mountains was 1km up the road... which i never knew about????


well i caught the guys at the top of the hill but the pace never slowed down , heart rate was pumping!

it was really fast because of the open sugar cane roads , we came in to the 1st single track and i was lien in third place... it wasn't so super smooth and passing all the slow 60km guys sucked! but we got out of it and was still lien in third,,, i just couldn't get on to the wheel of 1st and 2nd and that took its toll, we then got on to an open road and they were strong winds and i was on my own, the other guys were working well together, i held back and waited for 4th place so we could work together, we could just see them about 20km to go,and one of them blew, jedson tooms, we caught him and went straight passed him, but 1st place, kyle dorkin was still about 500m ahead and looking strong, we arrived to a very steep , rocky hill... i thought it would suit me but i was wrong, it was so rocky i was just slipping, the one time my weight didn't help on a climb!!!

any way i was in third now and stayed like that untill the end, it was really fast to the end!

well i was pretty chuffed with every thing... had a good race and my fastest time for the 40km,,, 1h 38min...