DArren kicks it into high gear

Cape Town South Africa.

After finishing 9th in stage1, Darren Lill kicked it into high gear over the mountainous and very VERY windy course of stage 2. Darren finished in a leading group of 5 which included 3 previouse winners of the Giro Del Capo along with 2 Tour de Langkawi winners. Darren was beaten in the uphill sprint and finished 2nd. His teammate and team leader David George (ex Barloworld, USPostal, CCCPolsat etc) finished 5th.

Darren now leads the overall Mountains Classification and is currently 2nd overall in the Giro del Capo. He will still be riding in support of David George however, so it's going to be hard for him to really prove his worth (once again). Poor Darren has seemingly spent his whole friggin' career riding for others. He so rarely gets to ride for himself that a lot of people don't realize how good he is and how much potential this joung rider has.

He'll be team leader for the Tour of China, so lets hope he can get used to the Altitude and show everyone who he really is over there. But in the meantime, who knows, there might still be the odd opotunity to ride high and well.

Darren sounded pretty pissed off about not winning stage 2. Understandable; even though finishing 2nd is pretty friggin' good. I told him he has the KoM jersey, so that's somthing to be happy about to aim for.

As I type about sunny South Africa it is bloody raining here, rained ALL dey yesterday and has been a really shitty and wet week... Hmmmm.. I can't wait until next year to be in Australia for this time of year! :-)