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S-Works Epic

Full name : Burry Willie Stander

Nickname : the dart

Age: just old enough to drink beer in the us

Weight: 65 kg (this morning after a coffee and a pit stop)

Height: 174cm

Favourite food: steak ,eggs and chips

Favourite drink: chocolate milk

Hometown: Umtentweni, KZN, South Africa

Coach: Garmin ,Powertap and myself...

Training hours: 10-12 hours in season,20-25 hrs leading up to epic

Strengths: anything short and punchy

Weaknesses: long drawn out boring dirt roads...nutella and ice cream

Bikes: Epic for marathon and XC, Tarmac S-Works for well tarmac, Transition for TT or when I like to go really fast.

Previous pro teams: Factory GT

Years pro: 2009 is my 4th

Race nutrition for marathon/long road races: Typically 2 fast fuel bars,4-6 gels,4 bottles of fast fuel race fuel/water.

Race nutrition for XC: 3-5 gels,around 2 bottles of race fuel/water mixed into smaller bottles depending on laps.

Party nutrition: generally not a lot of solids,mostly fluid

Hobbies off the bike: cars, watching tv, hitting the beach, hanging out with Cherise(girlfriend) and giving Bobby, Christoph and Wellsy a hard time.

Drives: 2007 Audi a3 2.0t with Rieger body kit, 19 inch wheels, custom paint. branch exhaust system and some pumping sound, 2008 BMW x5 3.0sd stock standard unfortunately.

Favourite tv show: Entourage

Favourite movie: Cool Runnings/Talledega Nights

Favourite music: hip-hop/rock

Favourite artist: lil Wayne

Typical day: kiss Cherise,hit the coffee machine.watch some mtv and then its off on a ride.shower,eat,nap,watch tv.more excercise,shower,eat,watch tv,sleep,,,now thats a good day.

Favourite saying: "..that just happened!"

Superstitions: None i can think of.

On being Specialized: A great opportunity to becoming the best I can be, and a bunch of good times with great people along the way!

I started riding mountain bikes with my dad and older brothers on a farm just outside of port Shepstone in KZN at the age of 10. I remember those first years as the most challenging of my career. I think the bikes I was on back then weighed more than me but it didn’t deter my enthusiasm. Instead I always wanted to ride further and faster by day and by night I was flipping through American mountain bike magazines dreaming of one day meeting my heroes that graced the pages. 10 years have gone by and my passion has stayed the same. The same things that drove me back then drive me today.For me its all about being the best that I can be,and if that gets me to the top id be very grateful. The sport has taken me on an awesome journey over the years, in 1999 I won my first Sa and African titles as a u/13 or sprog as the category is known. In 2005 I made a trip to the usa to compete against the best that country had to offer. I managed three wins out of four in their national series and with that I got a wonderful opportunity to race for the gt international mountain bike team in 2006. I steadily improved over my first two years as a pro with the team racing the world cup series all over the world and had a brake through year this year winning the u/23 world cup and placing 5th in the pro men. In 2008 I also had the awesome honour of representing South Africa at the Olympic games in Beijing where I finished in 15th place. I continue to race locally whenever the chance permits and I enjoy riding with friends and family whenever I get the chance.

Career highlights pre 2008
3 time U/19 sa xc and marathon champion
10th commonwealth games 2006
17th u/23 world championships 2006
SA pro xc champion 2006/2007
6th u/23 world championships 2007
African xc mtb champion 2007

Highlights 2008
Mazda drifter Barberton sa marathon series opener 1st
14th giro del capo road tour and 2nd u/26 rider
Cape Epic stage win and leader for three stages(dnf due to itb injury while leading)
South Africa cross country champion
3rd u/23 SA road championships
World cup round 1 Houffalize Belgium 58th
world cup round 2 Offenburg Germany 7th
World cup round 3 Madrid, Spain 13th
World cup round 4 Vallnord,Andorra 2nd
World cup round 5 Fort William Scotland 5th
World cup round 6 Mont St Anne, Canada 3rd
World cup round 7 Bromont Canada 24th
World cup round 8 Canberra Australia 6th
World cup round 9 Schladming Austria 10th
World cup overall standings 5th
World cup u/23 champion
U/23 World championships 2nd
Jeep Hill2Hill marathon champion
Olympic games Beijing 15th

2009 sponsors: Specialized bikes, mr price,Oakley, Fever publications-weekly mountainbike column, Fast fuel nutrition, Crank brothers pedals, Garmin, Songo.info-charity involved in building BMX tracks for disadvantaged communities.

first world cup"w"

September 15, 2009

a little over a week after the world championship race we were back at it in champery, switzerland for the penultimate round of the world cup. the team was split up in canberra as susi, lene and i did our own flight plans while todd and the mechanics did theirs. i got to go home on sunday and spent 3 days at home enjoying the world championship. on wednesday evening i flew to europe and after a few delays checked into the hotel on thursday afternoon.

the little mountain village of champery is awesome. the mountains around there are huge and i was itching to do more riding leading up to the wc but held back. susi and i planned on doing a long road ride through the alps on monday so i was psyched for that.

it rained quite heavily on saturday and on race day the course was slippery and we chose some intermediate tires over the dry weather s-works slk tires. lene had a good race finishing up 3rd and after watching their race on freecaster todd, susi and i were eager to get out there.

the start loop took us up a 2km tar road climb before dropping into the final tricky descent on the normal lap.the lap consisted of a flattish, tecnical first loop with some steep drop offs and tight bends and then on the second loop we headed out onto a steep (23-33% gradient) climb of around 1km. the run up to the finish from here was mostly downhill covered in wet roots and rocks.

i had a steady start and dropped into the trail in 11th spot. as we headed out on the first full lap i bridged to the group in front and only alexis vuilermoz was further up the road. by the second lap absalon made his move and bridged to alexis with me chasing in 3rd. on the climb i managed to reel in vuilermoz while absalon was slowly growing his lead. i towed alexis around for a few laps as i needed to stay ahead of the riders i was fighting with in the series rankings and it seemed like absalon was going to be just out of reach. with two laps to go i could see ralph naf coming up from behind and i had to dig deep, to my surprise i brought 20seconds back on julien and i was feeling good. as we hit the last climb he still had a 25sec lead and i thought it was too late, however he was blown and when that happens on a steep climb like that , you go nowhere. i took full advantage and started sprinting up the climb. i managed to pass absalon and drop into the last downhill ahead of the olympic champion. i took big chances and experienced incredible adrenaline over the last few hundred meters before the line. i had won my first world cup! i never thought it would happen so soon...i still get goosebumps thinking about that moment when i crossed the line.

on monday susi and i rode to his house. it's a 150km ride over some big mountains in the swiss alps. after 5hours we hit the climb leading up to his house and near the top i hit a serious sugar low. we had to make a emergency stop. big thanks to mama sauser for an awesome meal after. we are now driving towards schladming austria for the final world cup this weekend. im hoping to keep the good form going...

ciao

burry

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