Welcome back. We're here with Turner Oads. Jonathan Lee after stage four of single track six. John, how you doing?

Doing well today was we're in the second half of the race now at six stages. So I started, there was a really big

climb that I wanted to respect and not go too hard on. Turns out I couldn't go too hard. We'll get into that

later. But after that, I sort of don't work in a bit and go a little bit harder, which felt pretty good. So

yeah, it was a good stage. It was, let's see, how long it was 21 miles, so really not that far.

The start of it for a while was just like a bike path. For the first, let's see, looking at the ride

file now. Yeah, for the first four miles, we were on pavement kind of like everyone's milder and like

a path. And then after four miles, then we hit a fire road and then short descent after that fire

road climb. And then it really, really long climb climbed about 1800 feet and super steep, super

loose fire road with like tons of like rain ruts and just loose rock. Really tricky climb to go up.

Then after that, big long descent and then some like punchier and then like a sustained this climb

to a fun like machine built finish. So yeah, it was a good time. Overall like elevation

game, we climb 4100 feet in that 21 miles. Not as technical as yesterday at all, but good fun.

Man, that kind of loose, like cognitively demanding climbing, I feel like just zaps me like physically too.

And then like, are you in the position too? Are you still kind of floating behind that lead group

in between everyone else? Are you feeling you have to like navigate people or are you just like alone?

No, alone, not having to navigate the end goodness because that would be because it's one of those

situations too, where like restarting would be really hard in a lot of areas on that climb, just because

you'd start out and just rocks would be rolling underneath your tires. So it's like all about

keeping momentum and kind of like doing little surges, but you also can't put out too much power.

Because if you do, you lose traction. So you know, if you had a higher threshold, you could probably

put out more power more comfortably, right? And then you could carry a bit more momentum, but even then

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