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Morning, chap, sorry for the late voice note, everything with long voice journey or a bit,

a bit ruffed off with time, so apologies for that. But yeah, yesterday was, it was an incredible

day really, it was like, you don't really get many opportunities to, I guess, have the

front row seat to watch the two boys, ah, two potentially best GC riders of this generation

try and battle it out for a win. So yeah, from that point of view, it was quite a good experience,

but it also got experience for myself, you know, personally it's stuck in, um, and challenging

for, for a stage win, it's, yeah, um, been a long time sort of trying to get here really,

been quite a up and down path to this point, so it's good to know it's sort of finally all

sort of coming to, coming to some good, um, but yeah, so we'll go this morning a bit,

bit tired, bit sore, but, uh, hopefully get the first hour under my belt today and, uh, yeah,

play it by ear, don't go too hard and save legs for, for later on in the race.

So that was the voice of James Shaw getting the podcast off to a flying start,

but the quote of the day, other than James Shaw's excellent contribution just now, came from Marcel

Kittle, the winner of 14 stages on the Tour de France, the winner already of the hair,

um, just, you know, probably born that way with a full head of, uh, German golden hair in perfect

array, um, came out of the womb, like that, like that, but maybe not quite that big.

No, it's hair, yeah, his hair, exactly on the, on a baby, yes, just like perfectly, like,

shaved at the side, but standing up nicely, yeah, um, good volume, never out of place.

Absolutely, fantastic volume, but his, um, yeah, his, his line up, he just won the day

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