Here follows Chris Wolhuter’s race report of day two and three of the Old Mutual joBerg2c.
Its day three at the joBerg2c and we are now well and truly into the race.
We have traversed the flatlands of the Free State and make our way off the escarpment into Kwa-Zulu Natal today.
I’m looking forward to the awesome trails that await us.
The racing has had a different dynamic to it with the GPS navigation. With stage two being the first day of racing with the GPS’s it was more conservative than usual, and a big group remained intact until some 20km to go where the racing heated up.
One or two navigational errors in the front group forced some teams to chase back on late in the race; whilst the gaps were only 20-30 metres, closing them in the final kilometres in the race can hurt. We managed to get fourth on the stage in a five team sprint, a result we were happy with.
As we became more accustomed to the GPS’s the racing returned to a more ‘normal’ structure today.
Again it got hard later on in the stage with just six teams still in contention. Hanco and I under the Karan Beef banner along with EAI Cycling, Cannondale/Blend, Fedgroup Itec, Contego and Europcar all represented in the front. – Chris Wolhuter
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