Welcome back to the pretty serious bike racing podcast. I'm Dane Cash. It's late

August and that means we get to be pretty serious about a bunch of different races

going on at once. I know people have strong opinions about this but I love to be able to

talk about the Welta, the tour of Scandinavia, the Rannui tour, there's all kinds of things to be pretty serious about today on this show.

And as ever, I can't wait to talk about all those things with my co-host,

bike racing analyst extraordinary, Cosmo, Catalano, Cosmo,

it's good to see you.

Good to see you too, Dane.

And we are joined this week by Ruth Edwards Racing Star,

Gravel and Mountain Bike Star at the moment,

former road star.

Ruth, how are you?

Doing well, thank you.

All right, well, we're here to talk about road racing.

I hope that's okay with you.

I mean, I know you're all into the gravel now but perfect great we have

well-to talk about lots to talk about it the well-to-

maybe some things that we I mean I always hype this race I love to talk talk about the V welter. I love to talk about how exciting it is.

A lot of the talking points from the V welter over the first few days, maybe not the kinds of talking points we wanted to have, but they're here.

We're going to talk about them and at least it makes things

interesting tour of Scandinavia also happened the renewi tour it's a world tour

race you may have heard of it by other names but it did have some pretty big name winners so we'll at least touch on that a little bit

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