Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast. This is the Vuelta of Spaniards Stage 7 recap.

We had Crosswind, eh, I wouldn't say chaos, just a bit of, yeah, some Crosswind action,

especially on some of the climbs. And I'm here with Benji Nice, and as usual,

Alexander Vlasov, yesterday, Benji's got enough work for the pod. The European hours,

the time change is destroying both of us. But as you know, I've Vuelta, a Spaniard

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He had a pretty good stage actually on the stage before the rest day. It kind of went on notice

in the cold and wet, but he was up there. I think he dropped Rob, which actually, and a lot of

people have been having jacket issues in the cold. I am yet to see a Bahrain McLaren rider have

any issues with their clothing so far, but a lot of other riders are struggling to get their

jackets up, not naming any names, both in the Vuelta and the Giro. But if you want to check out

the colds, www.locol.cc, the link is in the show notes, or the YouTube video description.

Moving on to the world to stage 7, interesting parkour, 160k stage, rolling climbs and they do

a descent to Urduña, then the third two reps of the Puerto de Urduña climb, 8k is at 7.6%,

but there's a 14% pinch in there, they do the first climb at 57k, then more rolling hills,

etc, not perfectly flat by any means, and then they do the second climb with 130k

into the stage, and then afterwards it's about 20k to the finish from the crest.

Not a particularly technical descent off the climb, there was a technical descent

off the La Tejera climb in the middle of the stage, but that wasn't a very hard climb.

So we didn't know whether there was going to be a breakaway or GC action, I thought maybe

more so when I tried something, so they're on that climb, but they did try something different,

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