Welcome back to the Lantern Rooch Cycling Podcast, brought to you by Join Cycling for our first

monument preview of the season and for the first time ever, both men and women's editions in

the same preview. Melano, San Remo. Seasons just started already here with monuments. It's crazy.

From Pavia to San Remo, of course, the route for the men has not changed 291 kilometers long.

The main climb, the longest climb they do is the Paso del Torquino, 140Ks in.

Then they begin the three or four capos, capomeli, capo chervo, capo bertha, which is about 1.5k, 6%.

That's 4. They begin about 70Ks from the finish, 60Ks from the finish,

then end about 45Ks from the finish.

Then the two climbs, everybody knows, the Tjpressa, which is,

every time I look at it every year, I'm like, that's not as hard as I thought.

5.6Ks at a measly 4%.

With the first 4Ks actually being the only ones at about 4.5%, 5%.

And then these are quick descent, about a 10K flat section, and then the Podio di San San Remo which also 3.6Ks 3.7% with about a 500 metre 6% section where Julian Alaphilippe attacked, always attacked actually before a quick descent where many of one in the past and then three Ks are flat on the via towards the

aroma for the flat finish in San Remo.

Looking at these two climbs, we have the fastest times of the last couple of years written

down here on the notes and I want to talk about it for a second. The faster chipresa time is

actually from the 1990s, which was 1996,

9 minutes 19. We have not seen a faster chuppressa. Since then, then again, it was a bit of

a cylinder that's going on with motorbikes and so forth in that year. I counted about seven

motors. That was an only problem. That wasn't the only problem, but there

were at least seven motorbikes in front of that man, so I can ride a bit faster the

GPS. I like that as well, to be honest. Can we have a word on that?

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