{"id":21938,"date":"2013-04-08T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2013\/04\/08\/results-amp-pics-2013-aspen-trans-karoo-mountain-bike-race-r568\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:32:22","slug":"results-amp-pics-2013-aspen-trans-karoo-mountain-bike-race-r568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/results-amp-pics-2013-aspen-trans-karoo-mountain-bike-race-r568\/","title":{"rendered":"Results &#038; Pics: 2013 Aspen Trans Karoo Mountain Bike Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 06 April 2013, Orange Anvil Events hosted the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Aspen Trans Karoo Mountain Bike Race in association with the Northern Cape Tourism Authority. The 2013 event, dubbed the \u201cDown Ride\u201d, was ridden from Sutherland to Ceres and is one of the longest single stage endurance mountain bike races in South Africa.  Pitting man against the Karoo the distance, including 5 compulsory check point stops, had to be completed within 17 hours in order for participants to avoid elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at the Jupiter Lounge in Sutherland, and covering a staggering 240km of off road terrain across the Ceres and Tankwa Karoo, the race finished at the Kaleo Guest Farm, 25km north of Ceres and included the long steep ascent up Skittery Pass at just 70km\u2019s from the finishing line .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Men<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1st &#8211; Timothy Hammond &#8211; 9hrs27min48sec<\/p>\n<p>2nd &#8211; Billy Stelling &#8211; 9hrs40min33sec<\/p>\n<p>3rd &#8211; Jean de Villiers &#8211; 9hrs43min11sec<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ladies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1st &#8211; Hanele Steyn &#8211; 10hrs41min11sec<\/p>\n<p>2nd &#8211; Lolita van Aardt &#8211; 11hrs18min52sec<\/p>\n<p>3rd &#8211; Janine Wenke &#8211; 12hrs36min39sec<\/p>\n<p>For more info please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transkaroomtb.co.za\/transkaroo\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.transkaroomtb.co.za<\/a>. Find and \u201clike\u201d us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter on @TransKarooMTB<\/p>\n<p>View the full results here:<\/p>\n<p>Some pics from the event:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo: Kolesky\/ Nikon\/ Lexar<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo: Kolesky\/ Nikon\/ Lexar<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo: Kolesky\/ Nikon\/ Lexar<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo: Kolesky\/ Nikon\/ Lexar<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo: Kolesky\/ Nikon\/ Lexar<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo: Kolesky\/ Nikon\/ Lexar<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo: Kolesky\/ Nikon\/ Lexar<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo: Kolesky\/ Nikon\/ Lexar<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo: Kolesky\/ Nikon\/ Lexar<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo: Kolesky\/ Nikon\/ Lexar<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 06 April 2013, Orange Anvil Events hosted the 2nd Aspen Trans Karoo Mountain Bike Race in association with the Northern Cape Tourism Authority. The 2013 event, dubbed the \u201cDown Ride\u201d, was ridden from Sutherland to Ceres and is one of the longest single stage endurance mountain bike races in South Africa. Pitting man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21938","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=21938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21938"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}