STAGE 1 RECAP | CAPE EPIC 2025 | CYCLESPORT.COM ALEX WILD + ZACH CALTON | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 518
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🗓️ 17 March 2025
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(00:00) Welcome!
(00:11) Cape Epic 2025 Stage 1 Breakdown
(00:43) An absolutely brutal start
(03:01) Partner Race Strategies and Tactics
(05:33) Managing Physical and Mental Fatigue in a stage race
(15:19) Logistics of transfer stages in Cape Epic
(18:05) Looking Ahead to the Time Trial
Join Coach Jonathan Lee, Alex Wild, and Zach Calton from the CycleSport.com team as they recap Stage 1 of the 2025 Absa Cape Epic. Alex and Zach were able to move up two positions in GC on a truly chaotic day. We cover the intense wind, dust, sketchy trails, and extremely hard start from Stage 1. We also get into how to manage frustration and expectations when your performance doesn’t match your expectations. Tune in for this and a look ahead at tomorrow’s extremely long 66km/41mi Time Trial Stage!
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| 0:00.0 | That was great. |
| 0:01.0 | He's pushed me through. |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah, it's a good day for it. |
| 0:05.0 | I think if you put yourself worth solely on outcome goals, you're missing the point. |
| 0:13.0 | So I think it's just rad to be out here. |
| 0:15.0 | The place bikes bring you is pretty sick. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the stage one recap of the Absa Cape Epic 2025. |
| 0:20.0 | This is the Asked Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and joining us is It was pretty sick. Welcome to the stage one recap of the Absa Cape Epic 2025. |
| 0:20.8 | This is the Asca Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer Rodham, Coach Jonathan Lee, and |
| 0:24.6 | joining us as team cycle sport.com's Alex Wilde and Zach Kelton. |
| 0:28.6 | Boys, today's stage, we're just going to get straight into it, 92 kilometers, 57 miles, |
| 0:34.6 | and you climbed 2750 meters or 9,022 feet. The first over third of that is a relatively |
| 0:42.6 | not climbing course. So I think that speaks a lot to the second two thirds. Absolutely brutal day. |
| 0:49.9 | Zach, can you break it down for us? I saw some footage last night. I should have been sleeping, |
| 0:54.7 | but instead I was watching. It looks so windy. Yeah. Yeah, that first 40K was just constant |
| 1:01.9 | crosswinds and it's not like a gravel road where you can kind of echel on a cross or anything. |
| 1:07.8 | It's two track at best, but oftentimes these little single tracks right up |
| 1:12.8 | against a fence. So you really can get almost no draft. And also early on, as the dust kicked up, |
| 1:20.2 | you couldn't see anything. And the sun is coming up. The starts are at seven. So super hectic |
| 1:26.9 | start. How hard was the start? |
| 1:30.8 | Alex, you've raced other epic series races. And granted, I know, Alex, you're not. And a lot of |
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