Welcome to the recap for stage four of Cape Epic 2021. Let's talk about the numbers right away.

This was one of the shorter stages, 45 miles or 73 kilometers, 5,413 feet of climbing

or 1,615 meters. That gives us a climate or distance ratio of 119 feet climb per mile

and 23 meters climb per kilometer. So that makes it so that it's kind of average for the majority

of the stages that we have, but definitely not the climiest, also not the flattest. This was a

point to point stage rather than a loop, meaning that we ended in a different spot. So we went

through different terrain, but really it wasn't anything unique. It was still a lot of rocky stuff,

some smooth stuff, a lot of farm roads, a lot of single or some single track. This one did have

a bit more road than previous sections and it started out with some longer road sections. So that

made it so that groups are tight and stuck together for the first half of the race. In terms of

weather, it was still pretty warm in the mid to high 80s Fahrenheit, got overcast toward the end

of the day, but was sunny for the majority of the day as a big rainstorm is coming in. So that's kind

of the basics on this course and now we'll hear from the teams to hear how everything went.

Stage four was I had the bad day yesterday and it was Brandon's turn this time to have a bad

day, but in a different way, it wasn't Brandon didn't have flat legs or anything, but nonetheless,

a lot of trials. Race started fast with the less climbing as well. There was just less. It was still

fast, but it wasn't too bad really in the beginning. And then once we hit a big mud puddle,

then I'm sure the other guests will talk about everything's strong out from there and Brandon and

I were moving forward in the race. Then we'll have a run in it. I somehow got a rock between my chain

ring and my chain and it... Well, I just thought I popped my chain off, no big deal, but put it back

on the next descent, my chain popped off again. At that point, John was way ahead. He turned around,

came back to me, mentioned that my chain had some sort of issue, but we were going to keep pushing

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