Stage 1 Recap: TrainerRoad Athletes Race the 2021 Absa Cape Epic - Ask a Cycling Coach 331
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🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
With the short Prologue successfully behind them, competitors faced the first major challenge of Cape Epic with the 98 km Stage 1. Our teams all came out of the prologue well-positioned and feeling good. How did they fare today?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Cape Epic Stage 1. I feel like it's finally started now. The prologue happened |
| 0:05.2 | sure, but this is really when it really starts. So I'm going to give you just some quick |
| 0:08.6 | context on this stage and then after that we'll get straight to the teams so you can hear more about |
| 0:13.1 | it. So 61 miles or 98 kilometers for today, 5,900 feet of climbing or 1800 meters of climbing. |
| 0:22.4 | This one had 97 feet climb per mile, which is technically the flattest stage that we have, |
| 0:28.4 | but it certainly was not flat. Lots of climbing. It comes out to about 18 meters per kilometer. |
| 0:35.1 | The stage was bookended by a lot of kind of like the strange circuitous routes through some vineyards, |
| 0:42.3 | and I think that's why it drugged down that average in terms of the amount of climbing. But just the |
| 0:46.5 | same, let's hear from the teams and hear how everything went on stage one. Okay, recap is stage one. |
| 0:54.0 | Sadly, I am by myself and we'll get to that in a moment, but let me start with the race. I told |
| 1:01.3 | the guys that today the races can start fast. And I don't think they quite believe me, but I was like, |
| 1:06.3 | no, trust me, we have like over 15 minutes between the pro women and our first group, and then five |
| 1:12.8 | minutes behind everybody else, like we're going to go fast. So I was like, we prepare for a really |
| 1:17.2 | fast start. And then right before we started, the announcers warned us that there was a big water |
| 1:24.1 | on course. And 2K into the start, we get to this raging river, and I was like, are you serious? |
| 1:30.6 | Like it is. We just went through it. I think it was a knee deep. So it was a very rough way to start |
| 1:37.2 | the stage, but yeah, we were able to kind of be in the pack split. We were in the second or |
| 1:43.6 | split into three. We were in the second part. We caught up to the first part of the group. |
| 1:48.6 | And we could see the co-ed leaders up ahead. And Nate and I were having a really good pace. |
| 1:54.1 | And then we got into the really long climb and we got past by one of the co-ed groups. And |
| 1:59.2 | you know, we just kind of ballot Nate do his pace and I just kind of followed behind. It was |
| 2:04.0 | really interesting to see just how different we tackle climbs where he would actually put time |
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