Woo. Welcome to the SomeWork All Play podcast. We are so happy to do with you today. Happy Tuesday. It's Tuesday. And I'm feeling fierce on this Tuesday. Feeling fierce. I know you look fierce. What are you talking about? We just watched the Torto France Femmes. In fact, we delayed this podcast like a whole hour so we can watch the finish. And it was epic. And they got quads of steel and great nails.

And I'm like all about it. Great nails is the key. You don't really see that in the men's tort of fronds. Yeah. Tare is done out there painting his nails. Tade needs to be bedazzled or I'm done with that sport. The Tortofrance Femmes has been incredible the last three days. maybe most highlighted for me by the domination of what would traditionally be called older athletes. So Marianna Voss is back in the yellow jersey after stage three. She's 39. Mavi Garcia won yesterday in a solo breakaway at 41. Maybe that tells us a little bit about physiology for women pushing a little bit more,

like high power can be maintained longer. I think it also just shows like women are badasses.

Women are so strong. That's my takeaway too. And I feel like it's almost even more exciting

than the men sort of fronts. There's been like crashes close to the finish line,

which obviously is like terrible to see. But like, oh, it's, it's quote unquote, terrible.

It's so annoying. Actually, before, we were kind of delayed before this podcast because they didn't re-show it on TV and you're like, I'm going to go back and find that. I did try to find it. You know, that being said, I feel like, you know, I had this terrible bike crash last April and I'm still working through all the ramifications of that. But if there was a video of the crash itself, I would be watching that 47 times in a row. We did watch the video, actually, of you being like, where's my wife? How's my wife? Again and again and again. I want to see me fly and hit a fence. I don't care about all that sappy bullshit. As long as you fly and hit the fence and have some fly-ass nails. Yeah. Oh my God.

If I was bedazzled, I bedazzled that fence with some blood. You did actually. We went back and put a heart rock there and have you noticed that it's gone? It's gone? I haven't seen it. I'm sure it's there. I mean, maybe the grass has like grown up around it, but I haven't seen it. We need to bedazzle the heart rock. So it's a little bit more visible. But the Tour de France fans, everybody should

watch it now. It's like eight stages long this year.

It ends in a couple mountain stages later in the tour. Demi Vollering, the main favorite, I would say, in those mountain stages, how to crash at the end of this stage. Looks like she's probably not going to start tomorrow. We'll have to be fact-checked on that because we just saw it.

But on the way to the finish in the last 5K,

her two teammates were riding on either side of her, holding her back while they peddled and she didn't. And I mean, I understand why that was necessary. But I'm like, if that's legal, maybe I can do the Tour de France. Just have really good riders that carry me up the mountains. Just have Tade and Jonas just absolutely pushing your back as you go. Yeah. With their bedazzle nails. Yeah. I was like, I don't know if this is legal, but man, to get to the finish line after a crash like that, she was like breathing real deep. I can't even imagine how painful that was. Toughest athletes in the world. Like, these cyclists are just amazing. in both the women's and men's tour, and maybe the most exciting part of all is that the women's tour seems like just as much hype, just as many spectators. And, you know, it shows what happens when you put money into something. There's spectators all over the course. In the old days, there used to be this narrative that it wouldn't sell. It clearly sells. It just took Zwift coming in, paying a ton of money. The race organizers coming in and paying a ton of money and correcting past inequities. And it's just incredibly exciting that we can make these same jokes now about the Tort of France fan that we always used to make about, you know, the men's tort of France. It's so fun.

And I feel like it's also funneling talent into the Peloton too, because like you're seeing mountain bikers like Pauline Vevero, who had an epic leadout on stage either one or two. It was on one. Stage one. And former mountain biker coming in. Chloe Dygert, track cyclist coming in and time trialists now coming into the Peloton.

And it's exciting to see like all this now coming into the peloton and it's exciting to see

like all this horsepower coming into the peloton from different places in women cycling i don't think

it's okay to call them horses okay horses as we established last week beautiful creatures

beautiful and so great to ride you know horses, the horse. Oh, God.

I need to get on a horse.

I actually on my Strava this week, so I did a little bit more biking this week as I was recovering from pacing.

And I had people on my Strava be like, horses are real cool too, aren't they?

Or maybe that was Instagram somewhere, but lots of good horse comments. Well, the inverse of that old big and rich song, save a cowboy, ride a horse. Okay, okay. We have a great episode for you today. This is going to be a big, no secrets Q&A, just from the gun, tons of questions. We'll see how many we get to. I bet we can get through like 15 or 20. I was secretly really excited for this, actually. I feel like we haven't had an episode recently where you just sit down and rapid fire or like somewhat fire through questions. And I'm excited. Yeah, no horse questions, unfortunately. Oh, we should get some. Maybe I'll insert. Maybe we answered them all already. I'll insert some worse questions. But some of the examples of

questions include increasing the pop feeling in your legs about Megan, the new 12-week marathon

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