Welcome back to Lenton Rouge Cycling Podcast for the preview of Milano San Remo,

2006, our first monument of the year.

I can't believe it's already here.

The season is flying past.

It's brought to you by Morton, who if you want to do 300Ks, you need Morton.

I think every rider wants to win this race.

We take Morton Bike up, probably.

Anyway, we're going to go through

the favorites the route in case you don't know it it's not changed uh the men and women's race

before giving our predictions on what is going to happen i love doing scenario analysis for

san remo particularly because yeah i see a fixed number of scenarios that can happen so i love doing scenario analysis for San Remo, particularly because, yeah, I see a fixed number

of scenarios that can happen, so I love doing it.

When you run us through the route, Benji, familiarize people with it, or with previous

editions?

I'll start up with the previous editions, or now let's start off with the route, because

it always stayed as the same also over the last five years.

So let's start there.

It's the same route as always, which is basically roughly 300K and it's all about the last, what can I say, 50 kilometers, I would say.

And those last 50 kilometers include, first of all, three capi, small hills by the coast in Italy.

Then we move from those copy to the Chippresa the battle for the chippresa is massive in terms of positioning you want to be in an optimal positioning there

because that's where tade poggatra and you we blew up the race last year and try to blow up the race

two years ago that climb is only 5.6 kilometers at 4.1%, but if you smash it, then

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