Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. I'm Alicia Legget and I'm here this week with Sarah

Moore and Mike Kazimer. This podcast episode is a pretty interesting one with some

incredible guests.

We cover what it's like to be both a high-level rider and an emergency responder, and then we

also touch on some pretty interesting stuff about my own injury recovery, so it was cool getting

to talk about where all those worlds overlap. But first, we're going to chat about the news.

Racing is back on right now, and we're seeing the Cape Epic for those who really love to suffer. The Cape Epic is a cross-country

stage race in South Africa, and riders have to race in pairs and finish within two minutes of each

other, so that adds just another level of

complexity to an already pretty grueling race. The race is over eight days with a prolog

race, then seven longer stage days. We've seen some very familiar names at the top of the results.

Sarah, what do you think of this type of racing? Sounds absolutely grueling. Like you just see them at the end

of the race and usually they're like caked in really like just so much dust. And it's not like

super technical riding, but you can like have some pretty gnarly crashes because it's very

high speed and you're out in the middle of

nowhere and there's kind of the element of making sure your bike holds up as well as you and your

teammate all hold up. So yeah, it's a pretty exciting formatting. I mean, I don't know if it's that

exciting to watch this kind of racing,

but it is nice to like follow along with the results, I think, for myself.

Yeah, there's a lot to go into with kind of race analysis and figuring out how it all happened,

even if the racing really just looks like people peddling for a long time. Yeah,

yeah, it's definitely not as exciting as watching cross-country World Cup races, but you do see

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