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in Northern Ireland. Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast, presented by

Zs with the online cycling platform to make your training fun and make you get faster. This is

stage 3, the croutin d'Earth and A from 167 K's, Long Quasante, Pauliano to Chastray,

Sansi, difficult finish for me to pronounce, rolling climbs, including a long one up to

co-deb or best on Chandest. These are own names that are really tricky. I also got an email

the other day, by the way, about Breton pronunciations and how they're different, like Maddoos,

you pronounce the ass and stuff, and come on, I'm just, I'm flat out just doing like

Galibier, correctly. Anyway, this stage culminated in what we expected to be in uphill sprint,

6.2 K's, 5.6 percent, that is, it's really weird in that we discussed at length yesterday,

who Jumbo would go for, because it's 5K's proper climb, like 7% average, and then it's 1K flat,

and then it kicks up at the end, maybe like 4-5 percent, for the last 150 meters or so, I would

remind you in, oh, is it Paranise last year, when Robert crashed out in 2021, there was the

Sharubla stage, of course, where he beat Laporte, 2K's 6 percent, but there was also,

oh no, that was the Sharubla stage I'm talking about, that sort of kind of long-ish climb,

a little bit harder, but 7K's 6 percent with some step bits in the middle, and he just terminated

everybody, so they got an embarrassment of riches with Inosco for Dumbo, to a hungry finish,

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