STAGE 7 RECAP | CAPE EPIC 2025 | CYCLESPORT.COM ALEX WILD + ZACH CALTON | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 524

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(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.

HUGE thank you to Alex and Zach for sharing their Cape Epic experience with us!

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This was a really great daily check-in - congrats on powering through and riding hard!

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Great series and congrats on the accomplishment. Well done.

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Agreed, I really enjoyed these. Extremely impressed by how Alex and Zach handled all the adversity and the humor they brought to their reports. Gained a ton of respect for both of them throughout this series – truly inspiring. Congratulations to both of them on finishing this, hope they can get another crack at it next year! (And hoping to be there myself)

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Thanks for the podcast. Was great to add this to the viewing experience

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Thanks to all for making this happen and congrats to Alex and Zach for getting it done. Pushing though the adversity was both familiar and inspiring. Well done!

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True grit from Alex and Zach. Kept getting hit but kept on going. Plenty for us mortals to be inspired by. Chapeau.

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Loved the format – more of this in the future, please. Kudos to Zach and Alex for having a laugh on every call regardless of the BS they faced nearly every day. The mud in the contacts, the back wheel shenanigans, the chat about Alex distancing himself but offering help when Zach was just in the hurtbox. Good laughs and I hope these guys have some fond memories of this race.

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Very cool to get the daily updates. I know it would be have been extra time and burden to the guys, but they graciously obliged. Thank you guys.

During stage 7’s recap, in South Africa, Alex said https://www.cyclesport.com/ is a local seller. But they’re not, they’re American.
Just in case people wanted to know :+1: