Placeholders: Is it safer at altitude?
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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This week's episode of Placeholders, recorded after a busy weekend of racing – but before Dwars door Vlaanderen ... – ponders which men's Classics team is best right now, riders skipping races to go to altitude, and whether the "Big Six" is really a thing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Placeholder Podcast, everybody. I'm Kayle Fritz. Fantastic show for you. It is, well it's just about Holy Week in the cycling sense, not the religious sense sense a bit of both actually. |
| 0:23.5 | It actually is what it is right now. |
| 0:26.8 | Well I'm talking about it almost being holy week in the cycling sense |
| 0:30.6 | it is technically already holy Week in the religious sense. |
| 0:34.1 | Anyway you heard Rona McLaughlin there welcome back Ronin. |
| 0:37.1 | Thank you I'm just wondering which is more important holy week? |
| 0:39.6 | Well speaking as a not particularly religious person I can tell you which way I go |
| 0:46.7 | Dane Cash which Holy Week do you prefer? Oh boy this is getting kind of deep you. You're really going to ask that question in the first |
| 0:53.4 | one that I mean, my answer is Tor Flanders, but I mean, geez, you're really, yeah, I'm breaking it open here. |
| 1:00.0 | You know, what's the word I'm looking for? I'm speaking carefully here. |
| 1:08.2 | No disparagement upon those who see the world differently. |
| 1:14.0 | It has always shocked me the way that, I mean, Flanders is a relatively Catholic place. |
| 1:20.0 | And the fact that they get out for the bike racing on that Sunday that so often is Easter I mean |
| 1:24.9 | That's so often as Easter that's the key. It's not always Easter. It isn't yeah |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, but it often is. Yeah. Well great way to start sub so We have things to talk about. We have bike racing to talk about. We have, well, we have actually lots of things to talk about. We have the Tora Flanders coming this week. We, all three of us, plus most of the rest of the staff, are headed to Belgium. |
| 1:45.0 | Well, actually tomorrow, I'm leaving tomorrow, landing Thursday, and so we'll all be together. |
| 1:52.0 | We will do a big Toroflanders preview on |
| 1:55.0 | well it'll be Thursday, Friday once we get on the ground and we hear some quotes |
| 2:00.0 | and we talk to some riders and we get final start list and things |
| 2:03.2 | of that we'll do a little mini preview today but we're really excited about it |
| 2:06.8 | I'm very very excited to head over to Belgium do some riding |
| 2:10.0 | drink some beers watch some bike racing it's really it's one of the best weeks all year. |
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