{"id":19317,"date":"2015-09-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/09\/11\/bestmed-makro-tour-brings-brown-full-cycle-r3485\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T09:25:02","slug":"bestmed-makro-tour-brings-brown-full-cycle-r3485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/bestmed-makro-tour-brings-brown-full-cycle-r3485\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestmed Makro Tour brings Brown full cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

When 16-year-old Jessica Brown lines up for the 30km race at the Bestmed Makro Cycle Tour on Saturday morning it will mark exactly seven years since the start of her cycling career.<\/p>\n

Back in 2008, she entered the 5km race as a Grade 3 learner and promptly fell in love with the sport.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-92504100-1441965658.jpg\"<\/a>Alexander Road High\u2019s Jessica Brown is a rising cycling star, who signed with professional women\u2019s cycling team Bestmed-ASG earlier this season. Photo: Full Stop Communications<\/span><\/p>\n

Nine-year-old Jessica immediately joined the Bestmed Lorraine Primary cycling team and embarked on a journey that would alter her life path completely.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, she claimed the national road champion\u2019s jersey in the under-14 age category.<\/p>\n

This year, the Alexander Road High pupil kicked off her season by taking silver at the national champs in Nelspruit.<\/p>\n

She followed this up with a win in her age group \u2013 and third overall \u2013 at the Daily Dispatch SPAR Cycle Tour in East London.<\/p>\n

Jessica continued her great run of form with gold in the road race and criterium at the Oudtshoorn Youth Festival in July.<\/p>\n

Her impressive performances have not gone unnoticed and she signed with the Bestmed-ASG women\u2019s professional cycling team earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really nice to be in the team and very exciting because you never know what your next challenge will be or where you are going,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The goal-oriented young cyclist, who lives in Lakeside in Port Elizabeth, has clear direction on her future however.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m aiming to become a full-time pro cyclist after school. I\u2019m even taking some courses to be a timekeeper and team manager.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime she is dedicated to balancing her Grade 9 schoolwork with a taxing training schedule that sees her riding six days a week.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, Jessica still finds time to play hockey for both her school\u2019s U\/16B team and her first-league club outfit.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, she will notch up yet another participation in the event where it all began.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my eighth Bestmed Makro race and my goal is to finish in under an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information visit www.teambestmedasg.co.za<\/a> or follow the team on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When 16-year-old Jessica Brown lines up for the 30km race at the Bestmed Makro Cycle Tour on Saturday morning it will mark exactly seven years since the start of her cycling career. Back in 2008, she entered the 5km race as a Grade 3 learner and promptly fell in love with the sport. Alexander Road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3563,2782],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-bestmed-makro-cycle-tour","tag-jessica-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19317"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}