Vaalwater

Saturday, 9^{th May}

This weekend the team did a race in Vaalwater, Nystroom. We had an early morning start leaving from Midrand at 4:30h.

We were fortunate enough that driving to and from the race it was raining a lot, but at the event it was dry.

The race started at 8am and the elite women were to start with the men. This suited me as it meant the racing would be hard and fast.

The Konica Minolta men’s team dominated the race and basically rode away from everyone else handing the victory to Paul van Zweel.

It was an out and back race and the Konica guy’s aggressive racing as of the turn around point caused the bunch to split up. I managed to stay in the chasing group wile the other girls were caught up in the bunch behind me.

I managed to stay with them until the finish to take the win, with the girls from Nashua taking 2^nd, 3rd and 4^th place.