Welcome back to the Lenten Rouge Cycling Podcast.

The recap of Parraubay Men and Women's.

It's 6.30.

We've just watched the end of the women's race.

The men's race finished about an hour and 40 minutes ago.

Wall-to-wall action today.

This episode is brought to you by Morton.

I've been sat on the couch since 11 a.m.

So it's been pretty idle day for me physically, ups and downs.

But we'll start with the men's race. All the big guns here that could be here, Pedersen, Van,

Van Arte, Bagachia. It is 260 kilometers long from Comp Ben to Roubaix. The first cobble sector starts after, well,

sorry, with about 162 kilometers to go of 30 sectors. And brake formation, Benji, was, it's different

every year. Last year it went early, surprised everybody. This year it was a hard fight.

The exact opposite, to be honest. And we kind of spoke about the uncontrollability of

the brake formation in Paris-Rubay, but maybe the context for that is also that because there's

uncontrollability, also a lot of people want to be in that breakway, which had an effect

on today's

break formation, I would say, because breakway didn't form. I'll clear it like that. There were a few

riders up the road every now and then, like Riley Sheehan in a group of three, then a smaller group

ended up the road a bit later. But there was no real breakaway necessarily for a lot of that first

100 kilometers and there's two reasons for that in my opinion patrick or two and a half i would say

the first reason is ua yu a and elpison look at every eight to 10 rider group that goes away and

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