The South African Marathon Championship
Just a week ahead of the Absa Cape Epic, there was Burry Stander battling it out with Kevin Evans at the South African Marathon Mountain Biking Championships. The event was held on Sunday at the Inanda Dam located near Durban. It was a narrow win that Stander evicted from Evan and their form. Irrespective of who won or did not, it would be a great boost to both the cyclists for the forthcoming major event, the Cape Epic.
Evans has undergone an emergency appendectomy just 12 weeks ago and therefore even though there was disappointment in the loss to Stander, there was still the sense of achievement that the surgery would place no major hurdle in his chase at the Cape Epic event.
He had also faced a puncture at the early stages of the race and still was able to keep up with Stander who is otherwise the undisputed king of South African cycling. All these pointers have been booster for him to have the belief that he would be a major contender at the Epic event.
David George, who is the partner to Evans for the Epic event, had suffered a crash on Friday from which he had to get 30 stitches on his right arm. Even with this handicap he managed to finish fifth in the South African Marathon Mountain Biking Championships. Sunday when the prologue time trials get underway he is expected to be completely fit and recovered from his injury.
The current champion of the Epic event is the Bulls team of Karl Platt and Stefan Sahm. It would be them that Evans and George would be trying to unseat from their top position.
The entire course for the marathon was an 82 km long stretch with nearly 2,000 meter of climb. This is quite close to what the Epic event would be all about so it gives a good rehearsal to the participants of the event, who might just be sporting skins compression clothing.
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