STAGE 4 RECAP | CAPE EPIC 2025 | CYCLESPORT.COM ALEX WILD + ZACH CALTON | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 521
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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(00:00) Welcome!
(00:55) Alex’s Heat Challenges and Hydration Issues
(02:15) Zach’s Physical Struggles and Adaptations
(07:10) Race Strategy and Performance Analysis
(11:10) Looking Ahead to the Queen Stage
Alex and Zach discuss their experiences with continued heat, and unexpected challenges like leg pain and crashes. They discuss some crazy power data and cool tactics they’ve used to move up in the field. The team also previews the challenging Queen Stage and shares their strategy for tackling it. Tune in for insights and support Alex and Zach on their journey!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Two quick updates for you before we get to the podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | First is Zwift training plans. |
| 0:04.1 | We've just launched these. |
| 0:05.5 | Zwift races are extremely hard. |
| 0:07.0 | We all know that if you've done them before. |
| 0:09.5 | There's basically zero coasting time. |
| 0:11.7 | The power seems to be just sweet spot and above. |
| 0:14.3 | And then it always finishes with, it has decisive hard moments, but it finishes with these brutally hard five-minute efforts. |
| 0:19.6 | We've analyzed a bunch of different Zwift races, and we've built out training plans specifically for that, also for training |
| 0:26.4 | for Alpda Zwift, if you want to get your time better on that. If you go through Trainer Roads |
| 0:30.9 | training plan builder, and you select as your type of riding Zwift, and then after that, you |
| 0:36.4 | select the goals, like we talked about |
| 0:38.4 | out to Zwift or anything else like that getting better for Zwift races you know how |
| 0:42.6 | training plans specifically for it and here's the cool part this isn't just for the |
| 0:46.1 | Zwift training plans for any training plan if you do Zwift races as part of your |
| 0:49.9 | training you can now swap any hard interval workout in your training plan for a Zwift race. |
| 0:55.5 | Just click on that. You can edit it over and swap it out. You can also do that when you're |
| 0:58.9 | building your training plan. Let's say you do a race every Friday. You can make it so that |
| 1:02.7 | every Friday it's a Zwift race instead of that hard workout. Now, all that's live for everybody. |
| 1:07.8 | It's fantastic. Go check it out. Now, second, the other point that I want to talk about |
| 1:12.9 | is our training plan builder and an update we're making to it. |
| 1:15.2 | In the fall, we launched an update to it |
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