Enter MTB and trail event
The race organisers have tweaked and developed the course to showcase this year's 60km race.
GET your entries in for the Husqvarna Classic Mid-Illovo MTB Challenge and Trail Run on Sunday 30 April.
The winner of the women’s race at the 2016 Husqvarna Classic Mid-Illovo MTB Challenge, Jeannie Dreyer, said after the event that she did not think much more could be done to improve the route. She was wrong.
The race organisers have tweaked and developed the course to showcase this year’s 60km race. According to course designer Bruce Smith, the course has been made even better.
The 60km Husqvarna Classic MTB X-Treme on 30 April will attract the cream of KZN mountain biking and by all accounts the riders in the area are in for a treat with Smith saying the race has to keep upgrading and changing the trails to remain competitive.
Smith, the father of last year’s race winner Derrin Smith, is a farmer in the Mid Illovo area and leads the team of local farmers who design and build the 60km course. He said they have introduced more free-flowing single track which is not as technical as in 2016.
For those mountain bikers who feel 60km is too much of a challenge, there is a standard 45km Safire MTB race and a relatively gentle 18km Gwahumbe Family Ride. And the younger set are also catered for with two 10km fun rides, one for the over 12s and one for the under 12s.
The Husqvarna Classic is the fourth leg of the prestigious nine-race Quattro ROAG Series which brings riders together for a Grand Prix-type series of events. Riders win points for each event depending on their finishing position at each race.
For the first time this year the trail runs will be incorporated into a ROAG Trail Running Series as well.
Entries are open via www.roag.co.za for all events and late entries will be accepted on the day. Give an Uzwelo school bag to an underprivileged Mid-Illovo child when you add a R130 donation to your entry.
Registration begins at 5.30am on the day, with the first MTB race (60km) starting at 7.30am.
Enter online at www.roag.co.za or contact ROAG on info@roag.co.za or 086 100 7624.
