Zach and Alex had a strong prologue while figuring out the team aspects of racing with each other on the prologue. They go into those details, how they built a pacing plan that leveraged each other’s strengths, nutrition, heat, warmups, and more before looking ahead to a monstrous Stage 1 tomorrow!
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(00:00) Welcome!
(01:12) How to Build a Race Strategy for Cape Epic
(12:10) Managing Heat and Hydration at Cape Epic
(14:36) How Alex Wild and Zach Calton warmed up at Cape Epic
(17:22) Cape Epic 2025 Stage 1 Preview
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What a challenge! Best of luck to them both!
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Weird about the UCI regulating the ice packs
Surprised to see Beers and Keegan finish so far back in the Prologue…2.5 min is a decent chunk of time.
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I’m not… Nino Schurter and some of the others are on another level.
Beer/Keegan down over 7 minutes after stage 1. But given Beers’ history with the race, I wouldn’t count them out just yet. I’m surprised the gap is as big as it is, but there is a long way to go.
At Cape Epic, you’re only as strong as the weakest link. I don’t think Matt Beers is the weak link in his team.
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Agreed given Beer’s history with the race (has won with 3 different partners). But it’s still a team event and both these guys are built for stage racing. When Beers won it in '23 with Blevins, they were even further behind after the first stage. Marathon, not a sprint.
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after Stage 2 - Beers / Swenson are around 9 minutes down in 5th GC rank right now. But could not see anything on Alex / Zach yet during the live coverage from Epic Series Channel on YT.
Beers was saying that Keegan hasn’t been training/racing “much” on his MTB before Cape Epic. Did Keegan overestimate his abilities or is he just sick? I feel bad for Beers.
