Rest days, routines and how Brad ended up on the front page of L'Equipe

The Bradley Wiggins Show by Eurosport

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🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It's the first rest day of the Tour de France so how will race leader Primoz Roglic be feeling?

Brad and Graham discuss how the dynamic of the race changes after the first rest day of the Tour

Brad reflects on how Sky tried to maintain their routine during rest days, even doing up to three or four hours of riding.

And we also look at how different riders approach rest days

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm currently out of office.
0:04.4	An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.
0:14.4	So I've gone to Barbados for a month for science.
0:22.4	Yours, Toby.
0:24.2	Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday.
0:29.0	Atul protected. Welcome to the Bradley Wigan Show by Eurosport, The Home of Cycling.
0:46.8	I'm Graham Wilgos with Brad in the pub for another bonus episode.
0:51.1	We are. This seems to work for us, isn't it? It's very relaxed.
0:54.6	It does.
0:55.1	It suits our style and particularly your style.
0:57.5	On relaxing, actually,
0:59.5	first rest day is tomorrow.
1:00.9	So we're recording this directly after stage nine of this year's tour.
1:04.1	So won by Tadei Pogicar, Primos Roglitch in yellow.
1:08.2	He's got 21 seconds on his nearest rival on G.C.
1:12.1	Eganber now.
1:13.2	After a frenetic start to this tour, an awesome nine stages in many ways.
1:18.4	How is the Peloton as a whole going to be feeling going into tomorrow's rest day?
1:22.6	That first rest day always feels like, you know, a long time away.
1:25.8	Obviously, these guys would have got to the tour on the Tuesday before the start on Saturday,
1:30.8	a lot of them.
1:31.6	So they've been at the tour now for two weeks, pretty much.
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