MUCKERS South Africa Race 1 of 3. 02/05/23
Rouvy Route Used: Clarence Drive | Whale Coast Route | South Africa | 13.11 miles | 994 ft climbing
23 registered | 16 finishers | 1 dnf | 6 dns
17 here for the 2nd race of the night, which might be a first to get more on the 2nd than the first race?? Can’t exactly blame riders though as this is a superb route and hopefully a good one to race on!?
“Tuden” smashed this one out of the park! 23mph average speed and nearly 3 minutes in front of 2nd! “robbiedoo” claimed the silver with everyone else coming in a lot closer behind! 3rd went to Muckers worldwide rider “denny44” which brings the team back to the podium after a very long time away! Well done and thank you for this superb effort!
He was closely followed but another Muckers worldwide rider “Andy_UP” who had another strong race to claime 4th! regular rider “rouvy1bryon” ( I know he’s now a regular rider as i always type byron instead of bryon every time I mention him 😁 came home 5th, with a new name to my races “AnneFleur” finishing in a very strong 6th. hope you enjoyed the race Anne and we see you on another soon!?
7th, and the 3rd Muckers Worldwide rider to cross the line came “Svard” but only just in front of another regular Canadian rider “Kin_kwan” in 8th.
“Lorenzino” came home in a strong 9th and the final mention goes to yet another Muckers Worldwide rider ( that’s 4 in the top 10!!!) “Mick_Michel”
well done everyone, especially those that managed to complete both races tonight!
| # | Category | User | Points | Team | Race time | Time GAP | AVG Speed [mi/h] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Men |  Tuden | 50 | Flø Garage Cycling | 0:33:55.1 | 23.19 | |
| 2 | Men |  robbiedoo | 48 | Eastbourne Rovers CC | 0:36:40.8 | 0:02:45.6 | 21.45 |
| 3 | Men |  denny44 | 46 | Muckers Worldwide | 0:36:49.5 | 0:02:54.4 | 21.37 |
| 4 | Men |  Andy_UP | 44 | Muckers Worldwide | 0:37:20.10 | 0:03:25.9 | 21.06 |
| 5 | Men |  rouvy1bryon | 42 | 0:38:17.7 | 0:04:22.7 | 20.54 | |
| 6 | Women | AnneFleur | 40 | 0:39:40.1 | 0:05:45.1 | 19.83 | |
| 7 | Men |  Svard | 38 | Muckers Worldwide | 0:39:59.4 | 0:06:04.4 | 19.67 |
| 8 | Men | kin_kwan | 36 | 0:40:01.1 | 0:06:06.9 | 19.66 | |
| 9 | Men |  Lorenzino | 34 | 0:40:59.3 | 0:07:04.3 | 19.19 | |
| 10 | Men | Mick_Michel | 32 | Muckers Worldwide | 0:41:40.9 | 0:07:45.9 | 18.87 |
| 11 | Men | coudb | 30 | 0:45:51.7 | 0:11:56.7 | 17.15 | |
| 12 | Men | maurybos | 28 | 0:47:04.4 | 0:13:09.4 | 16.71 | |
| 13 | Men | Swifty | 26 | Muckers Worldwide | 0:49:44.7 | 0:15:49.7 | 15.81 |
| 14 | Men | Mucker1974 | 24 | Muckers Worldwide | 0:51:12.7 | 0:17:17.7 | 15.36 |
| 15 | Men |  Bing-C | 22 | 0:52:04.2 | 0:18:09.2 | 15.11 | |
| 16 | Men |  Calberto | 20 | 20 km | 0:54:20.6 | 0:20:25.6 | 14.48 |
| dnf | Men | Leoseven | 0 | dnf | – |
nearly didn’t make this 2nd race of the night! After an full blown effort in race one, i had a nice cool down/warm up leading into this one but then something felt “off” and lets just say I wasn’t sat on the bike when the race started!! I Jumped on the bike with just over 60 seconds gone and didn’t feel confident enough to push on for the first few miles so decided to zone 3/4 it and see how it went. It went quite nicely it turns out, riding with Calberto for most of the ride, then as I was feeling ok, I powered up the last climb overtaking Bing-c on the way. I’d told fellow Muckers Worldwide rider swifty i was going to catch him which I think helped him put more effort in to stay in front of me! happy to finish, but gutted I couldn’t race as i love this route.
When I logged in many riders where waiting for the start. I had no idea who is participating. Usually the speed at the beginning is very high and I didn’t want to get in the red right at the start. Before we reached the first long climb I was in a big group and felt good. Andy was pushing hard and I tried to stay with him. On top of the hill there was only Andy, Robbie and me left. We stayed together until the last hill and we were fighting for the podium. Andy and Robbie were in front and I couldn’t really follow. Before we reached the top Robbie increased the spped and was gone. And was tired and couldn’t follow and increased my speed a liitle bit and passed Andy. Great race with a lot of fun and pains 🙂
you smashed it Mucker! well done. Racing with some of the strongest as well so it’s not like it was gifted to you in any way either. cheers for commenting.
At the start, I saw Tuden go hard and started his adventure on his own. Nobody really tried to follow him, although I’m certain a lot could for a while if they wanted too. But they all thought the same as me, there is a decent climb comming up and I will not be able to follow this guy to the top. I saw AnneFleur give it a try, but Tuden already had 200m. She had to adjust her tempo in the second half of the climb. I calculated my W/Kg nicely and put in about the same power from bottom to top, only accompagnied by Denny and Rob. From there on, it was trying to stay with those 2 as I know they are usually a bit stronger. I did untill the top of the last climb, where I blew and let them go. Very happy with 4th.