Garden Route Giro, the race that's been years in the making, finally happened — and we rode every stage.

Mossel Bay to Wilderness. Six days. Nearly 700 kilometres through mountain passes, Klein Karoo desert, and some of the most staggering gravel road on earth. We raced it, we filmed it, and we got humbled by it. This episode is the full debrief — what the racing felt like from inside the peloton, what we got right on the media side, what we'd do differently, and why Dryland have built something this country has genuinely needed.

But this weekend wasn't just about South Africa. Paul Seixas is 19 years old and he nearly broke Tadej Pogačar. Sabastian Sawe ran a sub-two-hour marathon in a sanctioned race for the first time in human history. And someone ran the entire London Marathon with a 25kg fridge on their back — for his mum.

Big week. Here's all of it.

# === CHAPTERS ===================================

0:00 — Back to the roots with Dave and Alec

1:38 — Garden Route Giro from inside the race

8:00 — What Dryland got right with race media

13:10 — Favourite moments, hard stages and riders going too deep

17:00 — The elite racing, women’s field and why the event felt serious

23:45 — Gravel bike chaos and setup debates

26:20 — Pogačar, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Paul Seixas moment

32:45 — London Marathon, super shoes and impossible speeds

44:00 — Wheelchair racing, robot marathons and strange endurance stories

50:00 — Alan Hatherly, the Giro d’Italia and what comes next

53:30 — Gattas, gravel bikes and upcoming races

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