CAPE EPIC 2025 | PREVIEW | CYCLESPORT.COM ALEX WILD + ZACH CALTON | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 516
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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(00:00) Welcome!
(00:50) Pre-Race Nerves and Expectations for Cape Epic 2025
(04:07) Cape Epic 2025 Race Overview
(06:16) Heat Training and Equipment Setup
(14:24) Alex and Zach’s Nutrition Strategies
(20:44) Race Strategy and Team Dynamics
(25:37) Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts
Join Coach Jonathan Lee, Alex Wild, and Zach Calton from Team CycleSport.com as they prepare for the 2025 edition of Cape Epic, the world’s hardest and most grueling marathon mountain bike stage race. Alex and Zach will be giving us an inside look at their Cape Epic experience with short 15 minute podcast check-ins after every stage. In this episode, Alex and Zach discuss their unique training routines, bike setups, nutrition plans, and overall race strategy!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm Coach Jonathan Lee in entirely different circumstances. |
| 0:06.1 | I also apologize for the audio. |
| 0:07.9 | It's been a bit of a Murphy's Law day, but just the same. |
| 0:10.8 | We have more important things to take care of than worry about the audio because we have, |
| 0:15.1 | with us, Cyclesport.com's team out of Cape Epic. |
| 0:18.8 | We have Alex Wilde, podcast regular, with us. |
| 0:21.9 | And then as well, his teammate, Zach Kelton, who's been on the podcast before. |
| 0:25.1 | You may have followed him through the Lifetime Grand Prix, uh, rider out of Utah. |
| 0:29.5 | And then we also have a rider out of California all the way over in Africa. |
| 0:32.3 | You guys are going to race the pro race. |
| 0:34.7 | Uh, first time for both of you, racing Cape Epic. |
| 0:37.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | Not first time doing mountain bike stage racing at a high level, that sort of stuff. |
| 0:41.8 | So we'll get into all that. |
| 0:42.7 | But you guys are going to give us an inside line throughout your race the whole time. |
| 0:46.3 | We're going to get to see how it goes. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm pretty stoked for this. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.4 | Are you guys nervous or scared? |
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