Cape Epic 2023: Special Episode! - Ask a Cycling Coach 408
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Get to know Tiffany Keep, Rossouw Bekker, and Keagan Bontekonig – TrainerRoad employees racing the 2023 Absa Cape Epic!
Learn actionable takeaways from what these pro athletes have done to prepare for the race, how they plan to execute, and what stages they are looking forward to and fearing the most in this brute of a race.
Follow them throughout Cape Epic with the links below:
• Cape Epic YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@EpicSeries_Race_The_World
• View the race route: https://www.epic-series.com/capeepic-event-route
• Rossouw's IG: https://instagram.com/rossouwbekker?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
• Keagan's IG: https://instagram.com/keagan_bonty?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
• Tiffany's IG: https://instagram.com/tiffanykeep?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
• Rossouw and Tiffany's Team IG (Valley Electrical Titan Racing): https://instagram.com/vec_tr_team?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
• Keagan's Team IG (Insect Science MTB): https://instagram.com/insectsciencemtb?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
(0:36) Meet Tiffany Keep
(2:20) Meet Rossouw Bekker
(5:16) Meet Keagan Bontekoning
(7:35) Course Overview
(10:12) What Tiffany did to acclimate to the heat
(12:33) Did Tiffany do any unique training for the race?
(14:38) Did Rossouw do any unique training for the race?
(17:30) Did Keagan do any unique training for the race?
(20:36) How many grams of carbs per hour do the athletes anticipate on taking in
(27:32) What stage are the athletes looking forward to the most
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| 0:00.0 | Well, can do a special episode of the Asuka cycling coach podcast presented by trainer |
| 0:03.3 | road. I'm coach Jonathan Lien. I'm joined by three of my colleagues here at trainer |
| 0:06.8 | road, but they're super cool colleagues because they're racing Cape Epic. It's pretty amazing. |
| 0:12.0 | We wanted to shed some light on this, give you some names to follow and give you some background |
| 0:16.1 | and also learn from their approaches as they get ready for Cape Epic. It's going to be really exciting. |
| 0:21.0 | So first up, Tiffany, Tiffany, can you introduce yourself in terms of who you're riding for for |
| 0:26.5 | the team and your associated sponsors, who your partner is, and what your, what are your |
| 0:32.5 | hopeful finish position is for Cape Epic. Hey, everyone. Thanks for having me. I'm super excited for |
| 0:39.5 | Epic this year. I'm riding 14 value electrical. That's our team name, but my sole applicant |
| 0:45.2 | team at the moment is valid electrical Titan Racing. And yeah, we ride Titan Racing bikes, |
| 0:51.2 | and which is a local bike brand as well. So of course, being able to do a race like this, |
| 0:56.4 | which is pretty much like the Tour de France amounts of biking is super cool for the bike brand. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm really excited to take on this challenge. This has been a bucket best race for me for |
| 1:08.5 | a long time. And I'm very excited to get the opportunity to race at this year. My partner is |
| 1:14.4 | Hayley Pring. She is another local cyclist from South Africa, based in Cape Town. And she, |
| 1:22.2 | she's actually race to one epic before with a podium on stages, and they finished top five |
| 1:28.0 | overall in the woman's elite category last year. So she's definitely a pretty strong partner to have. |
| 1:33.7 | And I'm glad to have her by my side this year to help guard me through the race. This will be my first |
| 1:39.2 | Cape epic. So I'm just hoping to get to the finish with Hayley. And anything else on top of that |
| 1:46.9 | is a bonus, but obviously we're going to give it our best shot. And it's quite exciting to be |
| 1:51.0 | kind of like the young upcoming team in this race and will potentially be a cool partnership |
| 1:56.5 | going forward. That's awesome. And if you have paid attention or followed along with Cape epic |
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