Welcome back to the Lenton Rouge cycling hog cast for the Craterium to do for a time trial 31k time trial longer than the Tutor France time trial kilometers, which is interesting but many of the Tutor France competitors here and it is I mean it's a hilly TT it is not as nearly as hard as what is almost a mountainous time trial in the Tutor France, but it's an indication of you know, who can time trial who can pace et cetera, particularly with the likes of Vingigard who was the prohibitive.

More than odds on favorite for this stage actually and then Hindley or Connor and Yates how are they working on their time trials and then is the land is the mass of the world and and hake like who are they improved their time trial over the offseason for London not so much and Jorgensen who did a really good TT in Romandie could he in Velasco pull something out of the bag anyway the profile was 31 kilometers starts at 510 meters immediately does the

call to La Croix covert that covered cross maybe two and a half case to go to case sorry at 5% or near enough then there is a 7 kilometer non technical pedaling descent if you got a 60 on then a little

300 meter 6% pick up and straight after that is the T1 and then another rolling descent to T2 at Sondini de Caban 19 and a half

case and then the final can I do maths I can 11 and a half kilometers is gradually it goes from that 1% to 2% to 3% in the last maybe K is 4% and it's a little bit steep at the line finishing actually lower than where it started in Belmont de la Lois so an interesting time trial sort of similar to last year's rock on the dual time trial I think a little bit

different to finish what did you who does this suit Benji who is the perfect writer for this well first of all you've got parts in this time trial that fit to other writers for

example the first uphill section is obviously for the climbers that will probably have a better time on that section but then they might have

trouble in the downhill and on the flat section where the writers that have one maybe more technique but also next to that have a higher weight those rulers might be able to gain time on the pure climbers in the middle section of the time trial and then the last section is kind of interesting because it's a type of false flat where even the rulers can still do their bidding so the specific

writers that it fits I was thinking the Cavania that had his time on the plunge to be a few time trial that Cavania is perfect for this because and survive that and cancer you do well on the flat section in the last climbing section but we haven't seen that

Cavania in a while so which other writers fit that the thing ago was right out would definitely do well on this park or I thought he was going to win this time trial so that time trial so I thought Cavania I just didn't like Cavania's shape this year so far and I think we've we've made a habit it's kind of a rule of the

podcast that we just we don't not only do we not pick him for the TT we pretend like he's not even doing it so obviously we didn't pick him but I sometimes have

question marks over his pacing both in road races and time trials and we'll see that in his stage I think Vingigard yeah in theory he should win but also that the down hill is the

down hill is significantly worse for him than just a flat section because he stills under 60 kilograms and it's not technical so if he wants to go as quick as a 75 basic

to 72 73 kilo rider or maybe even a 68 kilo rider like an icon or a hey go grow sharp now they have to push 450 he has to push 450 but 450 divided by 60 I can't do math is over 7 watts per kilo and it's less for them so it is

interesting how the down hill I think made a really really big difference in this time trial but one thing I would say that this is also the time trial where we're right for now to really

does shine the rolling train he would probably destroy people on this on this time trial I would expect but one more thing you spoke about it shortly at the start before we go into the results

this is a very long time trial for a one week stage race while at a Twitter France is a short time trial for 21 days stage race and I like stage races having a good balance between the amount of advantage that a GC rider with a time trial ability can gain in a time trial

while the pure GC riders in trying to fight back in the mountains and I feel like there's a bit of a it's a lot of time trial compared to the amount of time you can gain in the mountains I think in this though for a park or I don't I disagree I think given the gap to say if you're a professional

like he leads a professional and he is a professional yeah if you're london you ship four minutes or three minutes because you're not a professional on the tt bike to be real then yeah you're not going to take that back but I mean there's some serious climbs later in the race

where OK yeah I mean it on the good go ahead the problem is the best GC riders now are the best climbers and the best time trial right exactly called being got Remko rocks anyway very delayed the surprise winner he's been waiting several years for as a Danish rider he's been in world tour now his fourth season after being the triple you 23 world champion is in this discipline

Mikkel Björg finally gets his first professional victory and by some margin two now he's a big rider I think he's leaned up if I guess a little bit I mean his PCS is 78 kilos but I think he's in climbing condition and he's an interesting rider who I think is actually could turn into on a on five to seven percent gradients and hilly tt's like this is actually made what is better than a better art than trying to run top 10 in on loop which I think he can he had OK classics but

look lean and he knocked us out of the park winning the time trial let me have a look 12 seconds ahead of Jonas finger guard both of the 49.5 K now average so not a 55 KPH tt or you know 40 KPH proper climbing tt either one in the middle

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