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Greytown MTB Festival

[image] 31 May 2010

This years Greytown Mountain bike Festival took place on the 22nd and 23rd  May at "The Beehive" in Greytown. We were graced with near perfect weather for the entire weekend. The Festival is structured around a stage race. Riders were offered the choice of a Full Stage consisting of a 60km ride on Saturday and a 45 km ride on Sunday. Unique to this event is the Half stage which offered a 31km ride on Saturday and a 26km ride on Sunday. Any combination of the rides could be done as individual rides. The Fun rides of 10km and 3km were enjoyed by the kids and beginners.

In line with our aim of being a family week end we offered Trail runs on Sunday on our 26km and 10km courses.  The camping and B&B's were well supported and we had a large contingent watching our Big Screen Rugby Bonanza where all were relaxed knowing the Sharks couldn't lose.

The Sunday rides were part of the N3TC Super Classic. The Full Stage was won by Shaun Peschel, followed by Jeremy Thompson and the Ladies section was won by Yolandi du Toit followed by Jean Hackland. The Half Stage was won by Youth category member Stephan van Eck followed by Sub Junior Bryce Rawlins. The Ladies section was won by Sub Junior Savannah Schuit followed by Sub Junior Rochell van Eck.

The hotly contested Sub Junior series was won by Alan Hatherly followed by Carlo Marzoppi. The Girls section was won by Savannah Schuit followed by Emily Chalmers Banks.

The Intermediate ride overall winner was Alan Hatherly followed by Stephan van Eck. The Ladies overall winner was Liz Alexander followed by Savannah Schuit.

The main event of the week end, our 45km Super Classic was won by Andrew Warr, closely followed by Travis Walker. The Ladies section was won by Yolandi du Toit and followed by Melanie Palframan

The organizer would like to thank all of the nearly 1200 competitors for their participation and to our sponsors for helping us provide the best value for money Mtb event in Kzn. We aim to make a difference.

2 comment(s)

jason hall
Hello there, you guys at Greytown do a fantastic job of hosting an MTB race.the course was great and the wheather gods were definately on your side this year!Well done and thanx again.
PS maybe next year we can have a couple more BULLRUN sections??

Regards Jason Hall

James Felgate
Hi guys

That Bullrun was cool and a few others would be great too. Will be back agian next year for sure !!!!

Great Race

Regards
James