{"id":3839,"date":"2013-03-26T12:07:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T10:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conradstoltz.com\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2013-03-26T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T10:07:24","slug":"kayamandi-unofficial-world-mountain-bike-champs-hosted-by-songo-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conradstoltz.com\/index.php\/kayamandi-unofficial-world-mountain-bike-champs-hosted-by-songo-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayamandi (unofficial) World Mountain bike champs hosted by Songo.info"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Conrad<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u00a0Nino Schurter<\/a> (current XC World Champion) Songo Fipaza,<\/strong> (Songo.info<\/a> founder, visionary, legend, gentleman) Caveman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Songo Fipaza<\/strong><\/div>\n

Qoute from the Songo.info website: [It all started out with Songo Fipaza’s dream to provide children of Kayamandi with opportunities and a fun and safe place to grow up away from the troubles on township streets. Songo is an exceptional role model for everyone as he works tirelessly in the community to create opportunities for the children. His dream has come a long way over the years where the BMX club and mountain biking group are fully established, participating in numerous events in the Western Cape, and across South Africa. We are all so privileged to work, learn and interact with Songo Fipaza. He demonstrates actions that dreams are possible to achieve.]<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Conrad<\/a><\/p>\n

Christoph Sauser<\/a> (who won this 30min plus 3 laps exhibition race) and Songo Fipaza, came up with the vision to create a team with budding star Burry Stander <\/a>– to race the Cape Epic under the charity – named Songo.info<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Conrad<\/a><\/p>\n

Songo personally welcomed every rider. I lined up with ex roadie Darren Lill<\/p>\n

\"Conrad<\/a><\/p>\n

Clinging to Florian Vogels<\/a>‘ wheel on opening laps, but after a few steep climbs and hard sprints I was drowned in lactic acid and was relegated to the more realistic part of the race…<\/p>\n

After training for the Adu Dhabi Triathlon (3k\/200k\/20k- blog to follow soon) and seemlingly months of long hours in the saddle at relatively low intensity, the shock of 30min at a 100% Lactic Acid mixture was quite severe!<\/p>\n

\"BMX<\/a><\/p>\n

Railing berms and jumps on the Songo BMX track- built by the funds raised by Susi and Burry on that first Epic in the Songo jerseys .<\/p>\n

\"Kids<\/p>\n

Kayamandi’s kids make for enthisiastic supporters.<\/p>\n

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\"Conrad<\/a><\/p>\n

Up to my ears in lactic acid…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pics by Gary Perkin<\/a> (Flipper)<\/p>\n

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\"Songo<\/a><\/p>\n

Songo development riders railing some “Kayamandi singketrack”.<\/p>\n

What an amazing story of inspiration (by Susi, Bury and Songo) and judging by the recent success of the Songo development riders at the 2013 ABSA Cape Epic, <\/a>there certainly is hope for another rider to follow in Burry Standers<\/a>‘ big footprints…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Nino Schurter (current XC World Champion) Songo Fipaza, (Songo.info founder, visionary, legend, gentleman) Caveman. Songo Fipaza Qoute from the Songo.info website: [It all started out with Songo Fipaza’s dream to provide children of Kayamandi with opportunities and a fun and safe place to grow up away from the troubles on township streets. Songo is an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1370],"tags":[1748,1749,1752,1754,1374,1371,1372,1012,1373,1806],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n