DOME2DOME ROAD RACE/

DOWN AND DIRTY MTB RACE.

The European season is slowly coming to an end. In less than 2 weeks I will be participating at the Road World Championships in Varese, Italy.

Last week I did my final hard preparation for the road race, together with a MTB and Road race over the weekend.

The MTB race was only added onto our program on Thursday. With a hard training week and still not fully recovered from the previous MTB race I knew I wouldn’t be 100% but was still willing to give it a go.

The Down and Dirty mountain bike race was held in Pretoria. The technical single track sections got the better part of me and Letitia Botha took the win, me 2nd and my Garmin Team mate Samantha Oostuisen 3rd

The Dome2Dome road race was held in Johannesburg. It was one of the big road events of the Summer Cycling Season.

The event started just before 6 o’clock in the morning and the freezing wind made the start extra uncomfortable.

My week of hard training and the mountain bike race on Saturday took its toll and I was in trouble from the start. I got dropped early on in the race and finished in the 3^rd group.

This last 2 weeks before worlds i will just be taking it easy, to hopefully be in my best form at Worlds

On Saturday Night I will be flying out with the SA squad to Italy were we will be participate in the World Road Championships from the 24-27^th of September.