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Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast, presented by Zwift, the online cycling platform

that makes training fun. I'm a little bit overexcited, as you can tell, the first big GC date

of the Giro d'Italia Stage 9, the mountaintop finished a blockhouse, over 5,000 metres of climbing,

including straight out the gate, a nightmare for sprinters who are still on the course, as we speak,

by climbs 9k7%, 7k6%, and then the middle it chills out a bit, but that's with a break-all

form, and then they do the Paso Lanchiano 11k7%, a little appetizer for the main course, blockhouse,

14k8.5%, with some like 4k over 10%, in the last third, disgusted in climb,

the scene of Cantana putting 30 seconds into Dumo, but that was on the easier run-in back in the day,

and the heart of the stage is, if someone's feeling good on the mountaintop finish and they can

have their team pace, gaps can get bigger. We had caripers of the favour for the stage in the betting

markets, yates second, lunder third, and then it was sort of fortunate at Dombrowski, I'll

mate her around the teams, but anyway, before we get into the break-action, a word on our show

partners, with the perfect companion, if you cannot leave your screen to watch the Giro to get your

fitness goals done, whilst watching the race, it's cycling up the mix training fun, whether you're

trying to get a bit stronger on the bike, or preparing for a grand tour, like MVP or Cav,

there's meetups, training plans, a pack calendar, and workouts on demand, and spending more time

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