South African Cycling Champs. Gabriel Burns, Gabriel Burns, Grade 10, Treverton College Student, competed in the Enduro South African Cycling Champs last weekend. In his category of Youth, he placed second.

Enduro Mountain Biking is a super physical sport. in South Africa, it often is a 30km loop with roughly 1000m elevation. It has five enduro tracks (stages) within the loop. The trails are often 2 to 4 minutes in length, containing rock gardens, roots, steep sections, jumps, as well as a pedalling section to make it more physical. These races often take three hours to complete; this is because the pedal in-between is not time so we can use it as a time to recover and take the pedal “easy.” Only the Stages are timed. This past enduro average time was about ninteeen minutes; that time only includes the trails.

This race was at Cascades Pietermaritzburg.