August 20th - A race to remember: Bram Houtenbos on the London to Tirana challenge
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Join me as I chat with Bram Houtenbos, who earned third place in the thrilling race from London to Tirana. We explore his race strategy, the challenges that came his way, and his reflections on finishing in the top three once again.Join me as I chat with Bram Houtenbos, who earned third place in the thrilling race from London to Tirana. We explore his race strategy, the challenges that came his way, and his reflections on finishing in the top three once again.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast for Tuesday the 20th of August. |
| 0:10.8 | If you were listening last week, you would have heard all about race across Europe. |
| 0:15.4 | This Lupine travel event going from central London, where the contestants departed at around noon on Saturday |
| 0:23.9 | to the centre of Tirana, Albania. And we now have some winners and some runners up. And one of the |
| 0:34.2 | latter is Bramhautenbos, who I last saw disappearing through the security |
| 0:40.7 | check at London St. Pancras International on the first leg of his journey. |
| 0:47.3 | Bram, good to catch up with you. |
| 0:49.7 | What happened next? |
| 0:51.3 | The sequence of different trains, buses, cycle hire schemes, |
| 0:57.0 | some buses and some taxis. |
| 1:00.0 | You, I understand, were involved in another sprint finish |
| 1:04.0 | because last year you lost by one minute after a 57-hour journey to the centre of Istanbul, you were unfortunately held up by |
| 1:15.7 | police action in Sultan Ahmed Square and lost the race. Something similar, I fear, this time. |
| 1:23.2 | It's certainly looking that way. It definitely wasn't the first person there. |
| 1:30.2 | The adjudication is still going on, |
| 1:32.6 | so I don't think the results are final necessarily. |
| 1:34.8 | But, yeah, I was the third person. |
| 1:37.2 | I'd say about two or three minutes this time. |
| 1:42.7 | But you made it, and to be in, I guess, the bronze medal position after a silver last year is very, very commendable. |
| 1:46.6 | You are the leading competitor so far. |
| 1:50.5 | Yeah, hopefully the shows I have some skill last year wasn't a fluke. |
| 1:55.8 | But a lot of it doesn't just come down to luck. |
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