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<\/a>Kargo Pro MTB’s Alan Hatherly ensured he beat the 2015 Sappi Karkloof MTB Festival’s 24h00, 3 May normal entry cut-off and is looking forward to challenging for the 60km Sappi Karkloof Marathon’s overall spoils on Sunday 10 May. \/\/ Kyle Gilham\/ Gameplan Media.<\/span>\n<\/div>\nYoung Hatherly will however have to overcome his Karkloof demons if he is to fulfil his goal of clinching this year\u2019s overall spoils having battled somewhat at the popular event previously.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor whatever reason I\u2019ve always struggled a bit at Karkloof before with my best result there only being a tenth,\u201d said Hatherly. \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to this year\u2019s race though!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been going quite nicely recently and I always look to try keep things as consistent as possible so hopefully luck will be on my side at Karkloof this year and I can look to try keep our Kargo team on the top step of the podium for the second year in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite his maiden pro elite national cross country victory over the weekend, Hatherly\u2019s lack of UCI points in his new age group saw him miss out on selection for the South African team to head to the Africa Continental Championships in Rwanda over the same weekend.<\/p>\n
While naturally disappointed to miss out on the international event, Hatherly is looking forward to rechanneling his energies towards a positive Karkloof performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt obviously would have been great to go to African Champs but things didn\u2019t quite work out there for me this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe plan had been for me to peak at African Champs though so the timing of Karkloof is really good!<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Karkloof MTB Festival is also always such an awesome event that is so well supported by the mountain biking community and is known for some of the best trails in the country so I\u2019m sure it will be another great event this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Kargo rider is also looking forward to the first unveiling of an accolade he acquired at the end of last year\u2019s Quattro ROAG Series.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving won my category of last year\u2019s ROAG Series I was given a black winner\u2019s number board with my name on.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving not ridden at any of the ROAG Series races this year I haven\u2019t actually been able to use it yet so it\u2019s a bonus that Karkloof is part of the ROAG Series and I\u2019m really looking forward to putting that on my bike for the first time at Karkloof!\u201d said Hatherly.<\/p>\n
Sunday 10 May\u2019s 60km Sappi Karkloof Marathon, 40km aQuell\u00e9 Half Marathon, 20km aQuell\u00e9 Family Ride and 10km aQuell\u00e9 Kids Ride action is preceded by Friday\u2019s 20km Karkloof Night Race and Saturday\u2019s Stihl Karkloof Enduro, making for a thrilling weekend\u2019s cycling adventure for the whole family.<\/p>\n
Riders and spectators can follow news and developments via the event\u2019s Facebook page (Karkloof Mountain Bike Club<\/a>) or on Twitter (@KarkloofMTB<\/a>) while more information can also be found at www.karkloofmtb.co.za<\/a> and entries can be submitted via www.roag.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With mountain bikers throughout KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and beyond scrambling to get their 2015 Sappi Karkloof MTB Festival entries in ahead of the 24h00, 3 May normal entries deadline, exciting young rider Alan Hatherly has ensured his name is on the start list well ahead of the looming cut-off. The talented first year Under-23 Kargo Pro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[134,263,4050,4025],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-20070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-alan-hatherly","tag-karkloof","tag-karkloof-mtb-festival","tag-sappi-karkloof-mtb-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070","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=20070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20070"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=20070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}