BSG Energade PE

It was race time again on the weekend at Port Elizabeth in the penultimate race of the BSG Energade Series. My brother, Ruan and I travelled Saturday morning, stayed in the hotel in PE and had lots of fun.

Sunday morning we had an early breakfast, got all our stuff together and went to the race venue about 1km from our hotel. We saw the wind was picking up and knew that, with the much smaller field than at the other races, the cycling leg will be tough.

The field was much smaller than normal because of the Africa Cup in Pretoria being held on the same day. Because of this the atmosphere at the race was much more relaxed and chilled, it didn’t even seem as if I was racing that day.

Ruan, Claude, Rudolf, Wian, Richard, Abrahm

I racked my bike and followed my usual routine. Even minutes before the start we were still joking, but when the race started …. we were going out full blast. I was lucky to hang onto Claude’s feet during the swim and made sure I stayed there. Claude, Abrahm and I had a small gap on Wian and Richard as we entered transition and maintained the gap exiting T1. For the first few km of the bike leg, I felt useless. I went through a little bad spot, but soon started feeling better again and worked with Claude and Abrahm on the bike. We managed to increase our lead on Richard and Wian on the bike leg to about 2 minutes.

We entered T2 and were flying out on the run. I managed 3rd overall.

Now – only the final in Big Bay, Cape Town coming Sunday.

Till then … cheers and enjoy…
Rudolf