Stage 5 Recap: TrainerRoad Athletes Race the 2021 Absa Cape Epic - Ask a Cycling Coach 335
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🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Stage 5 featured the most climbing of any day in this year’s Cape Epic. Add in cold weather and occasional rain, and it pushed athletes to the absolute limit.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a recap of Stage 5 from Cape Epic 2021. |
| 0:03.9 | This was the day that a lot of people had their eye on |
| 0:06.4 | and referring even though it's not the queen stage. |
| 0:08.7 | I don't know why it wasn't the queen stage. |
| 0:10.0 | I had the most amount of climbing. |
| 0:11.3 | So let's get into that. |
| 0:13.3 | Today had 2,900 meters of climbing |
| 0:15.4 | or 9,314 feet. |
| 0:17.6 | And it did that over 53 miles or 85 kilometers. |
| 0:21.9 | That basically brings it, it's the most climbing |
| 0:24.8 | for the race. |
| 0:26.4 | It came out to about 34 meters per kilometer |
| 0:30.1 | that we climbed 180 feet per mile that we climbed. |
| 0:33.6 | This course is in a new town called Wellington. |
| 0:38.0 | The trails though are really similar |
| 0:39.5 | to everything that we've ridden so far. |
| 0:42.3 | A lot of vineyard roads, a lot of chunky rocky stuff. |
| 0:46.9 | But we did have more flowy, smooth descents |
| 0:49.4 | in a few spots, which is pretty cool. |
| 0:52.9 | The weather was rainy and cold. |
| 0:56.5 | It was just kind of raining off and on all day, |
| 0:59.3 | which ended up later on when we were just |
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