TrainerRoad Athletes Race the 2021 Absa Cape Epic: Prologue Recap - Ask a Cycling Coach 330
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 17 October 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Beginning and ending at the University of Cape Town, this opening time trial was far too short and early in the race to cement an overall victory, but a major setback or crash here could have ended the chances of success for the rest of the week. How did our athletes fare in their first day of racing at Cape Epic?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the first of eight podcasts |
| 0:03.2 | that will be getting live here from Cape Epic down in South Africa. |
| 0:06.4 | Today was the prologue, and I'll give you the stats on this stage. |
| 0:09.5 | And then we're going to hear from each of the teams on how they did. |
| 0:12.0 | So we quick updates to keep you up to speed, but go to our blog. |
| 0:15.8 | That's trainer road.com slash blog and our Instagram just find this at trainer |
| 0:19.0 | road to be able to get all the details and even more information and even talk |
| 0:23.0 | with the racers and ask them how the race is going. |
| 0:25.6 | A super cool opportunity. |
| 0:26.8 | So the details, the prologue is short. |
| 0:29.4 | 12 miles or 20 kilometers in climb 1,969 feet or 600 meters over this course. |
| 0:37.2 | To give you an idea of what that is, that's almost the climbiest stage of it we have |
| 0:42.4 | in terms of your climb to distance ratio for this whole race. |
| 0:46.2 | But it's short. |
| 0:46.9 | It only 12 miles. |
| 0:48.1 | So the course is known for having kind of some like fast and cruiser fire roads, |
| 0:54.8 | some steep climbing, traverse, and then some steep descending. |
| 0:58.4 | And that's sort of delivered. |
| 1:00.2 | However, unexpected in this case was the rain and really slick conditions that we |
| 1:04.8 | had for the days leading up to this. |
| 1:06.8 | So let's hear from the teams and see how they dealt with those challenges and |
| 1:10.2 | kicking off this huge face. |
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