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<\/a><\/p>\nCarla Van Huyssteen was unstoppable at the TOTALSPORTS XTERRA PEZULA presented by REHIDRAT\u00ae SPORT on Thursday, 04 July 2013 crossing the finish line at the PEZULA Private Estate Field of Dreams (Knysna) in a deserving time of 02 hours 00 minutes 02 seconds. <\/em><\/span><\/span>Photo Credit ~ Cherie Vale \/ NEWSPORT MEDIA<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n According to Marais, he was feeling broken after the hard week of racing. \u201cThe Big 5 is killing me. The plan was to kill it on the first run and then just survive on the bike. Kevin Evans caught me about 5km into the mountain bike leg. Coming into the second transition he had about a 3minute lead on me. I felt good and managed to catch him on the last single track section. Winning today is fantastic,\u201d says Marais, who promises to be back in 2014 for his hat-trick win. Kevin Evans came in second, while Kent Horner finished third.<\/p>\n \u201cWith sore legs you can only push so hard,\u201d laughs Van Huyssteen, who is also taking part in her very first Big Five Challenge this year. \u201cMy breathing was really good on the day, but my legs just didn\u2019t want to respond. I ran really hard on the first run. I was really impressed with Candice Neetling, she did really well. On the bike my plan was just to remain constant. Candice caught me on the 14km mark on the mountain bike leg and entered transition with at least a 3 minute lead on me. I in turn managed to catch her on the 5km mark of the second run. I pushed as hard as possible as I didn\u2019t want her to surprise me later in the run. I am really relieved with the win. The Totalsports XTERRA PEZULA is definitely just as tough as the other XTERRA\u2019s, if not tougher\u201d. Candice Neetling came in second, while Gail Willimott finished third.<\/p>\n Dylan Rebello was unstoppable in the men\u2019s TOTALSPORTS XTERRA Lite presented by REHIDRAT\u00ae SPORT completing the course in a deserving time of 01hour03minutes27seconds. Michael Lord came in second, while Philip Jordaan finished third.<\/p>\n Jessica Alcock was the lady to beat in the TOTALSPORTS XTERRA Lite presented by REHIDRAT\u00ae SPORT completing the course in 01hour22minutes. Famke Allan came in second, while Gayle Momsen finished third.<\/p>\n Follow us on Twitter<\/span>: @xterrasa<\/p>\n Like our FaceBook page<\/span>: Stillwater Sport & Entertainment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PEZULA Private Estate\u2019s Field of Dreams resembled a battle field on Thursday, 04 July 2013 when just over 728 excited XTERRA Warriors gathered to be part of the action at the annual TOTALSPORTS XTERRA PEZULA presented by REHIDRAT\u00ae SPORT. Stuart Marais and Carla Van Huyssteen were the warriors to beat crossing the finish line in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[350,4267],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-xterra","tag-xterra-pezula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21723"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}