{"id":19719,"date":"2015-07-06T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/07\/06\/van-huyssteen-marais-set-sights-on-xterra-pezula-victories-r2925\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:25:14","slug":"van-huyssteen-marais-set-sights-on-xterra-pezula-victories-r2925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/van-huyssteen-marais-set-sights-on-xterra-pezula-victories-r2925\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Huyssteen, Marais set sights on Xterra Pezula victories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top XTERRA SA Warriors, Carla Van Huyssteen and Stuart Marais will be seen throwing down the gauntlet at South Africa\u2019s leading off-road triathlon, the Totalsports XTERRA Pezula presented by REHIDRAT\u00ae SPORT that will take place at the picturesque Conrad Pezula Field Of Dreams (Knysna) on Thursday, 09 July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaiming a title is one thing, but defending it one year later is much harder,\u201d says Van Huyssteen, whose winning time in 2014 was 01 hour 55 minutes 53 seconds.   \u201cThe women\u2019s field is really strong this year.  With some great runners and bikers having entered the race, the only strategy that I can have is to go out hard from the start.  All the female entrants have various strengths.  It\u2019s going to be the athlete with the complete package that takes the win\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-78451700-1436169053-1.jpg\" data-fileid=\"559425\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"559425\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-78451700-1436169053.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-78451700-1436169053-1.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Carla Van Huyssteen in action at the 2014 Totalsports XTERRA Pezula presented by REHIDRAT\u00ae SPORT. Photo credit: Cherie Vale \/ NEWSPORT MEDIA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Marais, he enjoys the duathlon format of XTERRA Pezula.  \u201cIt changes the race dynamic, which has me close to, if not at the front of the race.  It also offers triathletes a fun race option during our winter season.  From a course perspective, it is fantastic.  It\u2019s a lot of fun, very fast and extremely challenging.  I recommend this event to anyone wanting to get a taste of XTERRA.  The race is short and doable.  There is no swim, so this takes away the initial fear of triathlon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Forming part of the much loved Pick \u2018n Pay Knysna Oyster Festival, XTERRA Pezula is the ideal event for the entire family.  Junior XTERRA Warriors will follow in the footsteps of their heroes by taking part in the Totalsports XTERRA Pezula Kids Race on the Wednesday, the day before the much anticipated Totalsports XTERRA Lite and Totalsports XTERRA.  <\/p>\n<p>Late entries will be accepted at registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top XTERRA SA Warriors, Carla Van Huyssteen and Stuart Marais will be seen throwing down the gauntlet at South Africa\u2019s leading off-road triathlon, the Totalsports XTERRA Pezula presented by REHIDRAT\u00ae SPORT that will take place at the picturesque Conrad Pezula Field Of Dreams (Knysna) on Thursday, 09 July 2015. \u201cClaiming a title is one thing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3136,640,350],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-carla-van-huyssteen","tag-stuart-marais","tag-xterra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719","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=19719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19719"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}