One of the highlights of the mountain biking and trail running year takes place at the Hilton Bush Lodge on Saturday, 26 October 2019, when the Quattro ROAG Series powered by Momentum Awards Dinner hands out the biggest series prizes in the country for both sports.
The big winner on Saturday night will be runaway mountain bike series winner Christie Hearder, and the respective women’s trail running series winner Sarah Gray.
Hearder will collect R25 000 for her efforts after she ended the series with the maximum of 600 points. Gray ended the year on 572 points and will take home the trail running prizes.
Guest speaker at the function will be sports psychologist Dr Kirsten van Heerden. Van Heerden is one of only a handful of people to have represented South Africa as an athlete and then use that knowledge in conjunction with her PhD in sports psychology to help Olympians, world champions and South African sports teams achieve their goals.
She recently published a book on the challenges athletes face when they retire from elite sport and is the founder and chairwoman of Girls Only Project, a non-profit company focusing on women in sport issues.
The Quattro ROAG Series powered by Momentum takes place in conjunction with ten of the province’s top one-day mountain bike and trail running events and runs from February through to September. Riders earn points based on their race positions in a Grand Prix system with the best six results counting toward their final finishing positions.
The series rewards the top three women overall in both the trail running and mountain biking categories with the biggest series prizes handed out in South Africa. The series also rewards nearly 100 competitors in the various age groups from nippers to grand masters in the MTB series and U13 up to masters for trail runners.
The Quattro ROAG Series powered by Momentum is organised and administered by the Race Organisers Admin Group (ROAG) which is one of South Africa’s biggest entry and event administration systems for participation sports.
Photo 1 Caption: Christie Hearder secured a perfect 600 points from six events in the Quattro ROAG Series powered by Momentum. Photo: Tim Whitfield/Sports Wrighte
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