Itzulia Basque Country 2026 - Stage 2
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap the second stage of Itzualia Basque Country 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Lampson-Roo's Cycling Podcast for Stage 2 of it, Zulia Mass Country from Pamplona |
| 0:06.0 | to Quedas de Mendoquilo. This is the Leconbury finish, well they finish in Leckenberry more or less, |
| 0:13.4 | as Benji said. We have a very hard climb, pretty hard stage, it's a medium mountain stage. |
| 0:18.7 | They start with a 7K, 7% climb at the beginning, then rolling hills. |
| 0:23.3 | Then the main feast of the days, the category one, San Miguel de Arrallah, 10Ks at 8% before actually a non-rampas, non-Basque descent, actually a pedaling descent. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah. Looked a beautiful descent to do, actually a peddling descent. Yeah. |
| 0:37.6 | Looked a beautiful descent to do, actually. |
| 0:40.0 | But one where, yeah, you can actually rotate through. |
| 0:43.4 | And then the final climb was actually the best part of three Ks of climbing. |
| 0:47.5 | I really liked this stage design, I must say. |
| 0:50.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.8 | It had a, like the last climb got progressively narrower. |
| 0:53.8 | The last 1.2Ks were 7.5%. |
| 0:56.2 | You can have tactics here, you've got to have Cajonis to go from far here. |
| 1:01.5 | Is Paul Sechast Benji? |
| 1:04.2 | Do you reckon he isn't an LRC listener? |
| 1:07.8 | I don't know, because I feel like French people sometimes focus on French speaking media |
| 1:13.4 | instead of going to Anglophone media instead. |
| 1:17.0 | That's the same for every country, really. |
| 1:20.3 | Well, no. |
| 1:21.9 | Belgium goes to English speaking a lot, I think. |
| 1:26.7 | Yeah, but first, if we did Belgium, if we did Flemish LRCP, they'd listen to Flemish first. |
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