Welcome back to Side Bitches podcast everybody. It's been a couple years since the man sitting in front of me has been on this podcast.

Too long, I would say. Rupert Guinness, welcome back to the podcast.

We missed you.

Bonj-Calee.

Oh no, we're not in France, aren't we?

Where are we?

What's going on?

We're in Boulder, and we're at a place called the Rayback Collective having we just had our dinner and having a glass

Yeah, having some sort of lager is what we asked for. No, no piches to rosé. Not far.

No. Yet. I think they actually do a du-a-rosé here.

We could find out later.

Now, the reason we wanted to hang out this week,

well the reason you're in Boulder

is because you are on your way to the race across America,

which is something you've been trying to do for a couple years now, and COVID kind of

prevented you from being able to do that.

But now you're here.

You're doing a little sort of like altitude prep slash

coming back to kind of your origins with American cycling

yeah certainly so kaly

they're coming up for the primarily for the race across America, which is starting on June 14 in

ocean side in California, but, you know, before the race begins, I want to to sort of come to a place that was close to my heart and a place where I had friends and

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