Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast with Benji Naisen, a mammoth pod today and that'll be this way for the rest of the week.

Paranise, Tarenuadriadico, Stage 1, Paranise Stage 4 and Healthy Aging Tour, Stage 1 as well in the Netherlands.

We're going to split it up on the YouTube channel into three different videos but I know podcast on podcast plays is better to have it in one big file.

Paranise first, Tarenu second, as the World Tour racers and then Healthy Aging Tour last as the 2-1.

Before we get into the recaps, I want to mention our show partner, Locole and maybe something they do that you might not be aware of.

Locole do custom kit so you can do just like with the pro teams, say it was Bahrain, McLaren last year, have the custom Locole kit.

Well, you can do the same thing with Locole. If you have a Cyclone Club or a large group of friends, you can supply your design or maybe some artwork inspiration and Locole can design it in-house with their designers and confirm the order quantities before it goes into production like a pre-purchase sort of arrangement.

And then step three is the Locole factory in Italy produced the kit and shipped it to you about 8 weeks later.

So it's pretty simple and I think pretty good to be able to get custom kit maybe it's something we could look into Benji for.

I don't know if Locole want to do meme kit.

How do we do a fake news client kit? Sure, there'd be a lot of demand.

The Sharubla stage in Parian E stage 4, this was a fake news client.

I'm not sure if you've seen the LaFlam Rouge profile of the last client. It's so up and down, it's like a weld decline.

188K stage rolling hills all day, 3300 meters elevation and they finished with this 7.4K 6% climb but it's got two sections sustained sections of like 1200 meters of 10 to 11%.

And there's an intermediate sprint at the end of one of those sections and then actual flat and like descending sections as well in this climb.

We picked yesterday, Roglic for the stage is the heavy favorite, not a genius to do that and I think Shaqman Guillemata and co as well.

So the question was Benji, who could you get in a breakaway and that was the problem right?

Could anyone interesting really go in a breakaway today in a one week stage race when they haven't lost enough time up to this point?

Do you think that was a problem with this stage that always was going to come down to the GC group?

On one end, yes. On the other end, I'm not sure that it was the biggest reason I think that either way, even if the gap was larger,

the younger would still control this race and that's basically what they did today.

They controlled the pace throughout the entire stage. We had some riders in the breakaway including the likes of Oliver Nostin and such so some proper engines up there.

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