Good Start for Team Whasp at Energade Series

Yesterday we raced the first Energade Sprint Triathlon of the year at Midmar Dam and on the start line i could see in everybody’s eyes that they had the look of ” This is going to Hurt so bad ” in their eyes.

Although the numbers weren’t huge there was a lot of quality in both the men’s and women’s Field.

In the Women’s Race Tanielle Mandy had a excellent swim coming out the water 7th overall, followed by Samantha Ferreira in 10th place, both girls been working hard on their swims. Onto the bike and things really got broken up and a lot of solo biking was done, Samantha was making her way the field when 3km from end of the bike leg she got a puncture and wouldn’t beable to finish the race. Tanielle managed to get a 9th place in Open Women with Riana de Lange now a Whasp Athlete picking up 3rd on the day.

In the Men’s race Jeff Norton cruised out the water first followed closely by a small pack of athletes contain Wikus Weber too, so we had 2 Whasp Athletes in front pack of 6.

David Hadenham, Marc Price found themselves in the 2nd chasing pack and the game was on, PMB showing us that summer has arrived with winds and very Hot temperatures on the day.

Collin Allin, Robin Frankland having good swims making up the 3rd chase pack with Terrance Louw and Tiaan Rossouw chasing hard from behinde.

Tiaan had a super bike and rode his way up to near the front , finishing off the day in 8th place just ahead of Marc Price, also Whasp athlete.

Robin got 14th, Jeff 15th, David 17th , Collin 18th and Terrance 19th.

Wikus Weber finished 5th overall and was 1st Junior on the day too as he tries to win the Junior series for the 3rd time in a row.

The men’s winner was Claude Eksteen Followed by Erhard Wolfhaardt and Women’s was Andrea Steyn followed by Vicky van Der Merwe.

This weekend we go to the vaal to do battle again.

Energade Triathlon Series is apon us

Its that time of year again where we are reminded just how fast and hard a Sprint Triathlon is.BSG Energade Triathlon Series is the biggest in SA and been running for 14 years now. I always remember how Kak it feels when you finish your first one for the year. You left thinking that surely it couldn’t have been that hard.

The big difference for me this year is living at altitude and starting at sea level which should give me a little something extra. I also have a new ORCA Apex 2, first time i use it will be tomorrow. I also have my new Specialized Tarmac Comp with my Super fast Race wheels on, Zipp 808 front and Zipp 1080 Rear. I have only been training with this bike and haven’t had race wheels on yet, i have been very impressed with how a R20 000 race bike can ride and feel like a R60 000 race bike and i would know as i have ridden about 14 brands through out my riding days. There is something special about this bike, as well as the brand

So looking forward to having some red mist at some point in the race.

Here are the dates for the series in case you need them :