Bike racing is about a couple things. It's a mixture of a couple of things. It's a mixture of a couple, a few things. It's a mix of running a marathon, playing a game of chess, driving in NASCAR, and running for president.

If you can't figure all those out, then you're not going to win. Hey everybody welcome to the forward podcast yes it is a Friday and this is normally a podcast for Mondays.

But however, this is a special podcast and well, it's not like crazy special, but it's special in the sense that some of you might have listened last week and know that I'm going to do with friends. I'm going to do a daily Twitter France Recap show.

So what I thought I'd do today is put this episode up,

introduce the players, talk about what this show will be like, which is basically a

spin-off of the forward, and then talk a little bit about the Tour to France,

what I see to be the key points, the key

players, the key messages, the takeaways, the risks, the reward. And in a lot of ways this is kind of a

contradiction on what we've done for a year.

We've been at this for almost a year. We've done 50-something episodes.

Thank you to all the people that have downloaded episodes of the forward.

I just heard today that we just went through 4.2 million downloads, which is just, if if you had told me a year ago sitting in the same place

same town with Tim League that I'd have that many I would have said you're crazy so big

thanks to everybody here all right let's get to it so we

I'm gonna do this podcast about the tour to France which is basically a recap show I'll

watch the tour I'll watch the tour, I'll absorb the tour,

take some time to reflect and almost immediately we'll record this podcast and put it up.

This thing came to be because about six months ago George Eincapé and I started kicking around the idea of doing this very thing.

Georgia's schedule is super crazy. I couldn't get him to Aspen, Colorado for an entire three weeks.

And so...

You found another sucker. I found another sucker. Well, actually, I'm going to get to you J.B. But I've

first then we went from George and I that didn't work and I thought well I'll do it by

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