Thursday, October 22, 2009

Training @ the Kyalami Race Track

You've seen me say often in my exercise plans that I'm training at the Kyalami Race Track. Yesterday I decided to take the Kodak along so that you can get a glimpse of what I get up too. I'm glad I went yesterday evening - I'm not sure if I mentioned in an earlier post that I'd like to join a cycling club. I got to speaking to Angie who is involved with Club 100 - and she's had me hooked ever since. Last night we found out that we will be in the same starting group for the 94.7 and she invited me to join them - they are raising funds for the Sunflower Fund - I didn't hesitate. It's going to be fun raising awareness for the cause and funds. We'll be wearing tutu's and sunflowers. You can read more about the organisation here : http://www.sunflowerfund.org.za/ This is what they are about : "This is why The Sunflower Fund (Friends of the South African Bone Marrow Registry) was formed in 1999. The Sunflower Fund is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa, with a vision to give all South Africans diagnosed with leukaemia and other life-threatening blood disorders the chance of life, irrespective of their race and financial circumstances. The Sunflower Fund’s core purpose is to educate, recruit and raise funds to build and sustain an effective SABMR as a viable source of well informed ethnically-diverse potential bone marrow donors so as to meet the national and international requirements and improve the chances of life-saving transplants for serious blood disorder sufferers." Enjoy the pics......
in front of the pits
Going up the steep tough hill
At the top - the view can be very rewarding if you take the time to look.
Around the bend and then a steep downhill - woohoooooooooooo.....brakes, baby, brakes.....
The stretch in front of the Pit area again....
Back soon.....
Michelle
aka Puncture Girl

3 comments:

antgirl said...

Wow! That looks like fun.

Hanlie said...

I never think that racecourses have hills, but that one looks quite daunting!

Capt Elaine Magliacane said...

Oh how cool is that, I'm assuming that's a race track for cars, but they let you cycle riders use it when the cars aren't there.... Wow... Summer coming to you down there... must be, cause it's getting cooler here :)
Good luck on the century ride.