We screwed up (BC Bike Race Day 5 - Cumberland)

foreign [Music] [Music] Mackie and we're professional mountain bikers on a quest to reach the best and most challenging mountain bike races around the world [Music] and perhaps not surprisingly this Quest has brought us back to Vancouver Island British Columbia for another crack at BC bike race [Music] over the next seven days we'll be racing 180 miles climbing 25 000 feet and battling some truly brutal conditions so click subscribe and join us for an epic week [Music] day five is in Cumberland BC which was our favorite venue and we lasted this race in 2019. this will also be the biggest stage of the race with the most climbing and some technical descents to rival what we saw in day three we're pretty excited for this one as it really suits our skill sets unfortunately we make a big mistake before it even starts there's nothing I could do because we had already started I think I did kind of let it get to meet yep we really screwed this one up in this episode we're going to be knocking down the already pretty unstable fourth wall on this channel and giving you a look behind the scenes into how we capture this footage or in the case of today's stage how sometimes we don't I'm locking up and I'm looking at this guy on the top and I'm like I'm going to steal your GoPro battery as always thanks to our team on patreon for supporting us and making it possible for us to do these kinds of races you can watch day six video on patreon right now okay let's go [Music] crazy oh I have not been sleeping like amazing yeah I keep waiting for the part I get so tired that I can sleep anywhere but more fit they haven't hit that point yet [Music] I'm excited for today I like these these were well we got to see some of the trails on today and Sunday's stages yeah and they're really fun so our favorites true this is actually not flat on the first row yeah I forgot that was where we did that last year four years ago I think it was just bad luck overall I feel I don't feel like ridiculously sore I don't feel ridiculously tired so maybe I need to push a little harder but we are still on day five which means we have today and then two more days so which doesn't seem that bad to be honest like I feel like it's going faster yeah but I mean not including the prologue we've essentially raced half the race I feel pretty good yeah I'm feeling like a little like this morning like we're forgetting to do something but we'll find out because it's 9 10 and we feel like we're ready nine ten yeah so then we should probably actually go warm up yeah that's what we're forgetting to do today's stage is the biggest of the week at 25 and a half miles with 4 400 feet of climbing and unlike some races where the queen stage has lots of fast Road sections today much of the climbing takes place on single track combine that with rough Rudy Rocky technical descents and we're looking at a big day in the Cumberland Forest I wanna I wanna I wanna well now you've come to Cumberland to make your bar so take your stand well Wheels upon the starting line the time has come to Grunt and grind I wanna I wanna you've probably caught on to this by now but making these videos is a large part of how we're able to do races like this okay it's really the entire reason we're able to do this before we started making videos we were scraping together a privateer program living paycheck to paycheck and always feeling the pressure to get better race results to keep our sponsors because of this we ended up doing a lot of races that we didn't necessarily enjoy just to get results or prize money and we were always on the edge of burnout now we get to train and race full time and we only do races that we're truly excited about first of all we get to share this journey with almost a hundred thousand of you that's your sign to subscribe if you haven't already and help us get to a hundred thousand subscribers we are so close and once we hit that Mark we will probably never bother you about it again help us out let us know that you like these videos and smash that subscribe so while racing with a chess camera isn't necessarily ideal it's opened up more opportunities for us than we could ever have imagined when we started doing this back in 2017 and we are so grateful for that however by day five of a stage race filming starts to feel like just one more thing to keep track of finish the race recovery Drake stretching breath work eat for God's sake get out of that shammy dump footage clear cards carry all of our batteries over to the media tent to charge eat some more remember to go get the batteries keep hydrating etc etc anyway to make a long story short here's my face on the start line of day five the moment I realized we had never put a fresh battery into my camera and it was about to die I was not happy I tried to put this into the back of my mind but by about five minutes into the race I realized that if my battery wasn't charged mackie's camera probably wasn't working either forgot to put a new card back in my GoPro after I took out the full card yesterday share it with the media crew I have done that before once I thought I would never do it again there's something insulating about having the camera when things go wrong in a race you know you can always tell a good story no matter what is going on and last of course what is going wrong is the camera itself while I didn't get too negative about the situation I did let myself get pretty distracted and ended up losing contact with the girls I've been racing with all week on this first long climb this footage is from day seven by the way when we went up the same Trail I just got really bogged down in thinking about how we were going to make this video which it turns out does not really make you race faster however about halfway through the race course I saw an opportunity welcome to phase five we have come up and my battery's dead and I just was walking up and it was fun since I was the media guys with a girlfriend on his head and I was like give me all the battery because I would literally scream my video right now and he's like yeah this is about a minute to figure it out which but I am extremely grateful so a huge shout out to Sam you see the arm media unfortunately I just missed the coolest section foreign more likely that Maggie forgot to put the battery in or that all the stuff we were charging yesterday wasn't charging thank you all right so cool I hope I'm wrong and that Matthew did record no protection absolutely oh foreign foreign thank you there's Trucking on me [Music] yeah I'll take both okay foreign foreign [Music] oh what if you get a good spot I'll take it but thank you thank you extremely tight and then you feel good hi there hi thank you hey Ryan you got it thank you guys for being out here okay here foreign I'll give you two I love it oh this is really cool and mossy laughs wow that's hard what is a rhizome part of a potato thank you guys thank you oh wow I have a view for the first time incredible did you guys get lost okay thank you thank you I have one main regret from today that is that I forgot to put a new card back in my GoPro after I took out the full card yesterday share it with the media crew and I have done that before once I thought I would never do it again because I was so annoyed the last time I thought of it multiple times yesterday I thought of it at least once this morning and I still blew it and forgot to put a card in so I got on the start line and I hit the button and it went does this like three beeps which is turning on and then it goes and you're like oh no I know what that noise means I knew immediately what had happened but there's nothing I could do because we had already started besides that though I had a really good day normally for racing I try to do 400 calories an hour like consume 400 calories an hour generally scratch super high carb mix which a bottle is 400 calories this week because it's been so hot I've been drinking more so I've been drinking like a bottle every 40 minutes so I've been doing close to 600 calories an hour which is a lot of calories and I really do think that like making that such a priority getting the calories during the race as well as breakfast in the morning and dinner afterwards and eating lunch afterwards and doing recovery drink afterwards like all of those things trying to just replenish the glycogen stars as quickly as possible I think is paying off in terms of like being able to keep going I ended up eighth again I felt good I think I rode well I think the fact that I've been focusing on recovery and not digging myself too much of a hole over the last three days or four days allowed me to have a fairly good day today you're welcome thanks for being amazing yeah shout out to Sam this battery we currently have and he has ours I guess I assumed when you said my card was good that you had also put a battery in I that's a perfectly reasonable assumption that was that was on me I screwed up and forgot to put a card in mine and forgot to put a new battery in yours this morning so yeah sorry about that through him I am I think I did kind of let it get to me at the beginning I was kind of upset I got the battery like towards the end of race rocks like really steep like Road thing I like just spun out because I wasn't in the right gear and had to walk and I'm walking up and I'm looking at this guy on the top and I'm like I'm going to steal your GoPro battery that was like weird question do you happen to have a spare battery that I could take and bring back the media tent later and he's like I actually do I honestly had an okay day the end just kept going and going and going and going and I was like very ready to be over I honestly don't know if I sucked or if like Lauren and Mia were just like having a better day because I was ahead of all the dudes that I've been riding like I passed most of the dudes that I've been with all week nice like the girls were faster it's like I don't really know what to make of that I hurt a bit more today than I had previous days and it was hard to know if that was a sign of I just kind of regretted not going harder at the start but I also really am not sure I could I love further Burger though that's like my favorite Trail ever the like Rudy pump tracks you're like while this wasn't a great day for us as YouTubers as bike racers we held our own and we feel like we still have something left for the next two days and morale definitely improved with the dip in the lake and some ice cream [Music] stay tuned for day six where the fun heads to Campbell River for a very different kind of stage on his Adventure start foreign [Music]

Channel: SYD and MACKY

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Length: 24min 3sec (1443 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 12 2023