Browsing Archive: November, 2011
Posted by Nicholas Hops on Wednesday, November 30, 2011,
On Saturday i rode the Coronation Double Century in Swellendam with the Plett Club 100. Being the youngest person on the team by quite a long way it was going to be a fun day out and I was joined by my Dad as well. The main problem is that my team mates have all been 'peaking' their training specifically for this race whereas it is part of the beginning of my training schedule as I had only started training properly two weeks ago with the Hell and Back. 202km is a long way for a training ride...
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Posted by Nicholas Hops on Sunday, November 13, 2011,
Starting on Saturday my Dad, Uncle Alastair and I lined up for the "To Hell and Back" 2 day stage race. It is only 60km long on each day but with a total of 3700m of climbing thrown in it is quite a tough race! There was fear of rain before the day so we had all packed A LOT of rain equipment, luckily the weather held out and we were fotunate to have a warm sun and no wind for both days!
The first day started with a 19km uphill...Which is quite far, Dad and I set off at his pace and uncle Ala...
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Posted by Nicholas Hops on Sunday, November 6, 2011,
I thought I'd dedicate this blog post to my partner and father, Chris Hops!
He did the Wines2Whales adventure race this weekend with Bruce Mccracken, a crazy mountainbiker if there ever was one! Its quite a tough race (even though it says adventure) and while the daily distances are not too bad there is a lot of climbing in a short distance and a lot of single track which Dad is not brilliant at. Although he only took a tumble or two on the last day and managed to stay on his bike for the rest... Continue reading ...
Posted by Nicholas Hops on Tuesday, November 1, 2011,
Last week the Cape Epic route came out!!! Let me be not the first to say that it looks like fun....A LOT of fun, with a light spattering of death and sorrow inbetween, but hopefully fun will come out best! One of the days that I have in mind is the 147km 2900m of climbing in the middle. That is a long way, a really long way on a mountain bike, and even more of a long way for me, simply because the furthest I have ever gone on a mountain bike is 100km. While I love mountain biking I don't get ...
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