STAGE 7 RECAP | CAPE EPIC 2025 | CYCLESPORT.COM ALEX WILD + ZACH CALTON | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 524
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🗓️ 23 March 2025
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// TOPICS COVERED
(00:00) Welcome!
(00:17) Weather Challenges and Course Adjustments
(01:20) Race Day Delays and Management
(02:54) Final Day Reflections
(03:53) Overall Experience and Lessons Learned
(09:29) Support Crew and Logistics
(11:40) Shoutouts and Acknowledgements
(17:33) Closing Remarks and Sponsor Thanks
Wrapping up Cape Epic 2025 In today's episode, we recap the final stage of the 2025 Cape Epic with Team CycleSport.com's Alex Wild and Zach Calton. We discuss the challenges they faced during the race, including a stage shortening due to torrential rain and the significant delays on race day. Alex and Zach share their personal experiences and reflections, including handling race day stress, logistical hurdles, and their overall takeaways from the event. Special shoutouts go to their supporters, both on and off the trail. Join us for an insightful look into one of the world's toughest mountain bike stage races.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the stage seven finale recap of the 2025 Cape Epic. |
| 0:05.0 | We're with Team Cycle Sports, Alex Wild, Zach, |
| 0:07.0 | Halton. You guys made it. You finished the race. |
| 0:10.0 | You came in, 42nd overall, you maintain your GC position, |
| 0:15.0 | 41st on the stage. The stage was shortened. |
| 0:18.0 | Originally, it was supposed to be longer, |
| 0:20.0 | supposed to have a significant amount of climbing. I'm curious to see if, like, the numbers came out, but I believe it was supposed to be shortened down to 40K and 150 meters. Do you guys know roughly? Is that what it ended up being? |
| 0:34.1 | I don't know. But it was 43K. Yeah, slightly longer. |
| 0:39.7 | And that was because of torrential rain. Is that correct? |
| 0:43.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.2 | So that steep climb, we went up, the neck, where a lot of people were walking. |
| 0:49.8 | We were supposed to come down that, and I think it just turns into a river. |
| 0:54.1 | And from, I talked to one of the |
| 0:55.8 | specialized guys out here and he was saying that the trails we were scheduled to ride or some of those |
| 1:01.8 | that just don't hold up well to riding in the rain so it just wouldn't be good for their |
| 1:06.2 | trail ecosystem in general either so I think it's just the right call for not leading too much |
| 1:12.5 | of a trade. It's just hardly run a thousand riders going through, but also just to be risked-clatured |
| 1:17.0 | a little way of a rider and safety of the rider. How do you manage that, though? Because they told you |
| 1:22.5 | pretty late this morning, Alex, I saw a post from you on your social media channels. You were all caffeinated up |
| 1:28.2 | and ready to go, but nowhere to go. Like, how did you guys handle that? Because it's a pretty |
| 1:33.0 | significant delay, time delay that you had for the stage to even start the stage instead of |
| 1:37.4 | starting, what was it probably a three hour, three, three and a half hour delay that you ended up |
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