Stage 6 Recap: TrainerRoad Athletes Race the 2021 Absa Cape Epic - Ask a Cycling Coach 336
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🗓️ 23 October 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The penultimate stage of Cape Epic looked set to be a long, fast, rolling day on a flowing course. Unfortunately for tired racers, extremely heavy rains overnight had other plans.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the recap for stage six of the 2021 K-PAPIC. |
| 0:03.4 | A lot of rain overnight made for really muddy |
| 0:05.4 | and slippery conditions. |
| 0:07.1 | And it actually made it so that they shorten the course. |
| 0:09.6 | It's get into the numbers. |
| 0:10.7 | 81 kilometers for length, which is roughly 50 miles. |
| 0:14.3 | And 1,850 meters of climbing, |
| 0:16.5 | which is roughly 6,000 feet of climbing. |
| 0:18.7 | That gave us a climb to distance ratio |
| 0:20.3 | of about 121 feet climbed per mile, |
| 0:22.7 | or 23 meters climbed per kilometer. |
| 0:25.5 | That's about average for the rest of the stages |
| 0:27.6 | that we've had. |
| 0:28.4 | That's right there in the middle of what we had. |
| 0:31.3 | The terrain was a bit different in this area. |
| 0:33.9 | The dirt has a pretty weak composition, |
| 0:36.2 | so it's really affected by rain and water. |
| 0:39.4 | So there were a lot of drainage trenches |
| 0:41.2 | that we had cutting across the trails. |
| 0:43.9 | And then there were also a lot of water bars |
| 0:45.7 | that were designed into the trails. |
| 0:47.6 | If it was dry, I assume the dirt would have been |
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