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<\/a>They completed the 57km stage from Franschhoek to Wellington in 2:17:21, finishing ahead of Andrew Hill and Marco Joubert (TIB Insurance-Momsen Valley Light), who clocked a time of 2:20:35.<\/p>\n
Jurgens Uys and Nicol Carstens (Versus Socks) were third for the second consecutive day, finishing in 2:23:00.<\/p>\n
The stage’s outcome gave Woolcock and Kruger an overall time of 4:29:00, just more than six minutes clear of Hill and Joubert (4:35:27). Uys and Carstens (4:39:50) are third.<\/p>\n
Woolcock said it was not a case of making any significant moves on the day, but maintaining the pressure on their rivals until the climb up Cascade Manor 40km into the race.<\/p>\n
“The first 15 to 20km were fairly fast and flat, but knowing the trails pretty well, it was a matter of just keeping up the pace,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The guys were on and off us the whole time and we had a gap of about one minute when we hit the big climb of the day.”<\/p>\n
He added that they wanted to build up a decent gap going up Cascade Manor to the Hawekwa Plantation.<\/p>\n
“We managed to achieve that and still had something in reserve because there have been some fires in the region, which meant we had to be fairly careful on the single-track down to the finish,” said Woolcock.<\/p>\n
After riding a large part of the first stage of the Liberty Winelands Encounter, in partnership with STANLIB, at tempo, he said they had been able to ease back even more today.<\/p>\n
“You could see that fatigue had set in with some of the riders and I always believe in keeping something in reserve rather than trying too hard and making mistakes.”<\/p>\n
Kruger said they were still in good shape, having maintained their momentum without “pushing ourselves into the red”.<\/p>\n
Even with a fairly comfortable lead, he said they would not take anything for granted going into the final stage.<\/p>\n
“The race is never over and we will definitely have to ride smartly tomorrow,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We don’t want to run the risk of any mechanicals and crashes, or get caught at the back on some of the single-track.<\/p>\n
“So we will definitely be on our toes and make sure we are up near the front.”<\/p>\n
Swedish Cape Epic champion Jennie Stenerhag and South African partner Katie Lennard continued to call the shots in the women’s race, crossing the line first in 2:47:10.<\/p>\n
This puts them in the general classification lead on 5:22:10, well ahead of Jana Kruger and Ilse Viljoen (Companero), who finished in 3:15:14 for an overall time of 6:23:05.<\/p>\n
In the mixed category Corne Barnard and Vera Adrian (dormakaba RA) took the day’s honours in 2:37:03.<\/p>\n
They were followed home by Matthew Stamatis and Carmen Buchacher (Home Ice Cream) in 2:37:47 and Pieter Seyffert and An-Li Kachelhoffer (Bestmed-Ellsworth-ASG) in 2:44:26.<\/p>\n
Barnard and Adrian lead the general classification on 5:04:18, giving them a decent lead over Stamatis and Buchacher (5:09:38) and Seyffert and Kachelhoffer (5:24:50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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