Read Renay Groustra’s race report after the final day of this year’s RECM Knysna 200 mountain bike race.
Indigenous Knysna forest, coastal views, prime singletrack, minimal climbing and a high speed Enduro section. All of these ingredients put together created an awesome recipe for the final day of the RECM Knysna 200.
The riders all lined up in the Harkerville forests with smiles on their faces after a very fun past two days’ riding ready to make the final dash of 58km back to Knysna which included just 850m of climbing.
Once again we rode off the front of the race 5km from the start, and with solo riders Dominic Calitz and Knysna local Vernon Moos for company we began what turned into a high speed dash through some incredible terrain.
The course wound its way in and out of the indigenous forest with some rolling climbs, magnificent views of the ocean and some pretty fun singletrack along the way.
The high speed of the day’s route meant that we covered the kilometres quickly and before we knew it we were just 12km from the finish.
It was at this point where the drama happened. Nico noticed Dominic was hurting a little bit, and on the last climb we pushed the pace which gave us a 30 second gap heading into the Enduro section down the grass ridge.
We absolutely nailed the section with Nico eventually beating me by 0.01 of a second (Come on!).
Read the full blog here.
