{"id":11923,"date":"2014-06-05T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=11923"},"modified":"2014-06-05T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:00:42","slug":"hill-louw-confident-ahead-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/sports-news\/2014\/06\/05\/hill-louw-confident-ahead-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill, Louw confident ahead of nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pair, who ride in the colours of Fairview-TIB crossed the finish line at the Zuurberg Mountain Village in a time of 3:01:56 to take their third consecutive stage win and the overall title in just over 10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Louw felt the three solid days of racing had prepared himself and Hill for what was to follow at the national and world champs later this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the confidence comes from a good block of training, not so much winning the race. It\u2019s a big block that sets you up for what lies ahead,&#8221; Louw said<\/p>\n<p>Hill added that the 215km route had presented three diversely challenging days on the bike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is different riding \u2013 just exciting. You\u2019re constantly on an adventure, waiting to see what\u2019s around the next corner,&#8221; Hill explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe organisers have got it right with the diversity of riding. It\u2019s just such a great event and one I\u2019d definitely encourage people to come and race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Hill and Adriaan Louw were in confident form ahead of next week\u2019s national mountain bike marathon championships in Pietermaritzburg as they cruised to victory in the three-day PwC Great Zuurberg Trek in the Addo area near Port Elizabeth on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":11924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2887,2886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-sport","category-sports-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"General"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}