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Axel, I think kind of surprised some people.

It's weird to say that she surprised people because she'd already won two stages,

but she just straight up head-to to head beat Ashley on that summit finish.

And that's, I think, when everyone was like, okay, she's hands down the strongest at this race.

Yeah, they passed me midway up and I was pulled over filming them.

And Axel just looked at me and gave me a smile, just drilling it on the front.

And I was like, oh she's uh on one hello brayden

hello we are in our RV which I'm tired of now it is the cleanest that's been in over a week.

I feel like I could fall asleep while talking.

Yes.

And we're going to do our best to recap the week.

One of the reasons we're tired is because we haven't been sleeping much for a week because

these races start early but last night we slept even less because there was a post-race party

the gravel burn rave the gravel burn rave and then we woke up at 520 to go on a game drive here in

Chamwari, private nature preserve? Reserve.

Did we see animals? Yes. We saw rhinos we saw giraffes one giraffe we saw warthogs yeah we saw a lion

yeah fresh off a meal we saw saw the meal. Elephants. Lots of elephants. Spring bucks. Spring bucks, water bucks.

Um, heart a beast. Turtle. Turtle. Zebras.

Heart a beast. They're the ones with the horns shaped like a heart um um oh yeah one one one water buffalo we saw basically everything everything was it as good as you expected yes if it wasn't for today

no i feel like we i expected to see more during the race.

Yeah.

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