Eight days of adventure, wonder, beauty, pain, tears, fierce determination and finishing the hardest most grueling event of a lifetime…Absa Cape Epic.
It didn’t take but a day or two to figure out that the race was not at all a watered-down version of its reputation – the “untamed African mountain bike race” – or the hardest mountain bike stage race in the world.
Being “epic and grueling” sounds romantic and enticing to the adventurer, but once you get into the live moments lasting for hours upon hours you realize that this thing is for real.
There are no words or accounts of mine that can really put into perspective what we went through as it was more than just physical, it was hugely emotional and mental, and more than ever in my life I had to dig deeper inside myself to find that spark that would keep me pushing through, one pedal stroke at a time.
Clipped In is the biggest online resource for cycling events, races and news in the United States. We are putting all cycling events, group rides and other helpful resources like news and local training routes all in one place. Find your favorite cycling events and bike races on clippedin.bike so you can stay up to date with your cycling community, get better at what you love and enjoy the best sport in the world.
We provide a one-stop shop with cycling news, events, discounts, store, a comprehensive cycling event calendar, races, rides, bike shops, teams in road cycling, mountain biking, cross-country mountain biking, downhill mountain biking, cyclocross, track cycling, BMX and triathlon. You can create your own bike race calendar with our My List feature. You can also post bike races, cycling events, group rides, cycling team information, bike shop and coach bios.
Finally there’s one place where you can find both sanctioned events and fun rides, gran fondos and gravel races, crits, road races, cross races, mountain bike races, fat bike races, donut rides and more. We live for cycling and so do you, so why not have a place for all of our favorite events to live?
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