Abrahm Louw

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I grew up in a small town in Namibia called Tsumeb. My parents (Dad- Leon Louw, Mom- Annemarie Louw) worked in different towns; it was kind of hard traveling every weekend. At the age of 9 I started with swimming lessons, I soon started to like this sport and at the age of 10 I started competing in South Africa. When I turned 12 my father bought a business and then moved to our  town, it was the same year when our public pool closed, we had nowhere to train, but shortly after that my father decided to build a 25m, 3 line indoor swimming pool in the backyard of his business. I got my Namibian colours at the age of 14 when I took part in All African Swimming Champs in Mauritius, while just being 14 I still came in the top 5 in the u17 category for all the items I took part in. Swimming every day, without friends, only my brothers and receiving programs over the net; this became kind of boring to me, so I just decided to do something different and more exciting. Mom convinced me to do triathlon as I am a good swimmer, from that day on I started to take part in mini triathlons and so I became addicted to a sport called ‘triathlon’. My parents soon realized that me and my brother had some potential and needed professional help. For this and some other reasons we moved to RSA-Potchefstroom when I turned 15. Still in this year I took part in All African triathlon champs in Mauritius and came 1st in u15. After returning from the ITU African Camp that year I decided to ask Libby Burrell, if she would become my coach and from this day on I only improved and it was then when I realized that I can reach great heights in this sport.

Podium finish at Pretoria ITU African Cup

November 30, 2011

Last week went quite smooth, some good quality swim sessions, track running at night around Sander Berks old house as it has a rough 400m road circle with good light around it and a bike session which left me with just 1% energy left for getting off the bike straight sitting on the ground and just lying there. After this it was off to race Pretoria ITU Triathlon Africa Cup on Sunday.

I felt good coming into this race, I know what sessions I can handle in the time leading up to a 2 hour, I came prepared and didn’t race just for training. The race started with a really slow swim, my brother came along with me and afterwards said “What were you doing in the swim, cool down?” haha but after lap 1 (750m) I went to the front as Erhard Wolfaardt lead the first lap and I slightly started pushing the pace, but still not too hard. The bike was tough, way tougher than I thought, but I and Erhard rode a fairly good pace, avg of 40km/h, it was a long run from transition to the road and coming back as well. Starting the run side by side we ran all the way together, after 7.5km I told Erhard lets do a sprint finish, just to make it a bit more exciting for the crowd, I also told him you can always try and outrun me, but I’m for sure not going to let you go. The last 1km I started a bit faster trying to drop him, but it was too hard and we had a sprint 100m before the line and I came in 1sec behind him.





Now for another prep week and then the BSG/Energade Series Final at Emerald Casino in Vanderbijlpark, really excited so lets do this!

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