Welcome back to the Lantern Roos cycling podcast.

This episode brought to you by Morton for one of the most entertaining days of cycling this year.

We missed a lot of it, which is a shame.

But as we sit here in, I have pretty good weather in the Pyrenees.

I'm quite fortunate.

We did not in the middle of France, in the Loire Valley, a brutal stage in Paranese.

If you log on to, you know, you check, actually none of you have jobs, so you will watch

the race live.

But if the few of you do, if you check PCS later, see the time gaps and you see what

on earth went on here has did the Middle East conflict expand

to the Loire Valley?

Because these time gaps were crazy big.

And what was the stage today, though, Benji?

Because on the paper, it just looks like a medium mountain stage.

Yeah, the stage itself looks like, okay, the first half is relatively flat, then three

climbs in the second half of which the first two are seen to be attrition climbs because

they're not necessarily steep and hot enough to make an explosive early action happening.

So it was all about the final climb, Patrick, where there's steep percentages in a relatively

short climb, I think.

In total, it's like eight kilometers at 4.5%, but in reality, it's the last two kilometers

that are really steep.

And we were expecting action to happen on the last climb unless echelons happened.

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