Welcome back to the Lancer Rouge cycling podcast supported by LeCole here with Benji Nice and for the zero to tell you a stage 11 recap the Montalcino wine stage the gravel stage with 35k

So gravel in the last 70 I think that's a higher proportion than strata Bianca itself. I might have just made up that statistic. Here is the profile though in detail

Our 163 kilometers long we have the first 46k is easy no strata at all there's a few climbs and then the set for a start with a 70k is to go and the first ones got actually the longest downhill section of gravel descending and it's about a 9k long section and then they do a

3.7k 8.3% gravel climb they then have a false flat sort of ridge and then another climb up to the school of the past of the Lume Spento Benji correctly called these false

FAQ news climbs these ones they're like quite steep when they're actually going uphill and then downhill and the average gradient is a lie long road descent another climb a gravel climb descent on the road again so that's pretty good safety

wise one has to say and then the final climb starts with about 15k to go past the Lume Spento again 9.2k is 4.5% then the descent into the finish in Montalcino Benji how you feeling after the solo podcast yesterday thanks very much

You're doing that by the way no worries no worries I actually I enjoyed it but I'm glad you're back honestly I it's different than it's a bit more of a struggle

but I was so looking forward to the stage and I don't think I would be able to recap everything on my own looking at how the stage went so I guess I need to help too

I need to help too because I get that why must you wear the sunnies in Europe well because my eyes are just bloodshot right now I don't know how I've managed to fly from Australia to Europe and not miss a single

minute of pure erasing but that is I'm pretty happy with that before Benji let's you know what happened with the breakaway in this stage

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so what is the breakaway expected expected big stuff I thought we'd see people like perhaps a bet you'll send forward just in case before the

100 second sections happen before the race really opens up as a bit of satellite riders on these races and all that stuff didn't really come into play

I was second much more from the break like we had yeah no it didn't happen it just didn't happen

we had attacks with Lawton's Narsen he's the born battle in Gavadze Gugielmi, Van the Horn, Kluge Van Hooker, Linda Munchmid and Gobi

and this was one of the first attacks of the day like usually in the last Malant stage and Hill stage we had 60K's of trying to get in the breakaway

I was expecting the same one that's kind of stage but the second that these riders got away in Yoss put themselves at the

front of the group and they were like it's done people they could still try to attack but they did that

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