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Pick n'Pay Cycle Tour Cape Town, RSA |
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| Date: |
14.03.2010 |
| Description: |
Road Race |
| More information: |
http://www.cycletour.co.za/ |
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| 14.03.2010 |
Hey, if you ever have the chance you should take part of the Cycle Tour as well! I love it, even we had to start at 6.15 in the morning. But that is one of the facts which makes it so specials too. We start in the complete darkness and racing into the sunset.
Lance Armstrong was racing too, and he definitely created a huge hype this year. We even had more spectators out there. Every one of them tried to watch out for the fast Texan, but it was difficult for them, since we were so many riders dressed in red.
By the way I felt pretty proud when I could hear spectators cheering me on with my name.
Did not make the breakaway though! With about 30min to go, I was together with Burry when things started to explode up a climb with crazy winds. We had to fill in gaps of blowing riders, and then when we reached the top we excelled to super fast speed going down the other side. At that stage I could not create enough power at 120rpm any more. Burry just closed it with Austrian's Rene Haselbacher, and off they went with about 12 other top riders including Armstrong. After that it was steady racing to the finish.
I might ended up 20th, with a time of 2.40hrs for 110kms. That means I was faster then about 35'000 other riders today. Sounds good isn't it!?
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