It was a very exciting day for us. Our initial plan to get a good start today and my personal goals to ride smart with the descents into the climbing transitions turned into a fantastic position riding in the leading women's group with Alison Sydor and Pia sundset ( Rocky mountain) - the overall women's GC leaders and several of the strong mixed category riders. Our race plan evolved as we went to stick through aid station 1/aid station 2 and 3 and finally up the 12km climb to the finish. It was super exciting to come across the line in first with Alison and Pia on our wheels. Great racing and what we came for. Today's win solidified our overall place in second.
The Trek VW means team of Chris Eatough and Jeremiah Bishop finished in 12th and moved into 11th in the GC.

Today's Stage four was just another day in the very fast and brutal Cape Epic Stage race. It is one thing to have pre conceived expectation about an event and quite another to learn the reality. Each day is another day and each day is long, hard and HOT Africa Hot. ( 40 degrees plus Celsius today - and if you want to know how different that is from Gunnison Colorado right now check the weather on the internet). Its also very important to get in a good group of riders however it is a dirt and mountain bike race so its always challenging and not a road race.

It is fantastic and everything about this event is somewhat mind blowing. The 3000 tents and 2 dining halls that leap frog each other. Last nights camp is at tomorrows venue. The food is exceptional, media impressive and Vibe pretty great 5 days in.

I am wearing a heart rate monitor with Polar that you can view live as i race from the Absa cape-epic website. My condition to use it was that I would not be able to see my heart rate during the race, however you can, or you can check it afterwards.   It's part of the live rider tracking on the site.
Thanks everyone, its awesome.

Jennifer Smith