Seven days hence, on the finishing line of Val de Vie in the Paarl-Franschhoek valley, we will learn just how much of a marker was set down by the two leading teams on the slopes of Table Mountain in Sunday’s prologue of the Absa Cape Epic. While Annika Langvad and her Investec-Songo-Specialized team-mate Kate Courtney were all calm smiles and confidence after their near-perfect win to take a one-minute lead, there were tears and howls of joy from the Swiss-Austrian pair of Nicola Rohrbach and Daniel Geismayr (Centurion Vaude), who will wear the yellow jersey as the leading men. For Rohrbach, who has finished second and third in his two Epics, the emotion became too much when they were announced winners by 18sec. "It’s good to be in the top five at the start position after the prologue of the Cape Epic. We have worked super-hard for the last three to four months. "We have been in SA training really hard since February just for this week. We won the prologue today, so it’s really emo...
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