Dr Evil’s warm-up
There has been an evolution in sport circles on the idea of tapering with a move away from complete rest, over recent years. While you want to be as rested as possible for a big race, you also want your muscles to be reactive – you want to be peaking and not in a trough.
For this reason the Pennypinchers Dr Evil Classic is the ideal tapering (and warm-up) opportunity ahead of the Pennypinchers Lions Karoo to Coast Mountain Bike Challenge.
The Dr Evil event is sold out with 280 riders competing over three days in a clover leaf format starting at the Wittedrift High School, from September 18 to 20. The Lions Karoo to Coast takes place on the day after the event, on Sunday, September 21. More than 70% of the Dr Evil field will also compete in the Lions Karoo to Coast Challenge.
Not only will Pennypinchers Dr Evil Classic riders be in race-ready shape for the Karoo to Coast, but they will also get preferential treatment. They will get an automatic seeding into the second start group (out of seven) in the Lions Karoo to Coast. They will receive their Karoo to Coast race numbers at the Dr Evil registration, so they do not have to register in Uniondale. Karoo to Coast riders save R200 on their Dr Evil Classic entries.
The routes for the three stages are designed by Dr Evil himself, Leon Evans, but unlike the Absa Cape Epic, from where he got his name, they are aimed at fun riders. Much of the route will traverse private game and stud farms and will be a scenic and unique riding experience on trails not open to the everyday public.
“Nowhere in the country can you ride indigenous forests as you can here,” assures Evans.
The Plett Rotary Club, Plett Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), CANSA and Wittedrift High School are the beneficiaries of the event, which celebrates its third year.
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Source: Knysna-Plett Herald