S10 Ep146: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 5, part one: Port Glasgow – Dumbarton
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
There's the Killie Pie taste test, talk of Simon's phobia of big spoons, and then discussion of his previous exploits on two wheels. Simon has ridden from Lands' End to John o' Groats, from Tring to Tromsø and tackled the Transatlantic Way in Ireland so he's much more experienced than Lionel at long-distance, self-supported cycling.
Finally, they can delay their departure no longer and the get on the road to Dumbarton via the Forth and Clyde canal. Dumbarton Football Club have a resident poet, Stephen Watt, who tells Lionel about the town and performs a poem he's written specially for The Cycling Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, I'm a Beckham, I'm a Monarch, as I run to Kutztatry. |
| 0:07.0 | I'll never forget that the kid was played, and me for Sunday main. |
| 0:12.0 | Since he, my job when you get up at the goose, for you, for Katie, |
| 0:15.3 | Bain Muller, she bates at number 8 to Strip and Glasgow. |
| 0:20.0 | When I resolved till late... |
| 0:22.0 | Did you notice, Simon, as we came into Kilmarnak, |
| 0:24.0 | it said, welcome to Kilmarnak. |
| 0:26.0 | Scotland's most improved town. |
| 0:29.0 | I do notice, I know. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah, it was on the roadside, and I thought, I like that, |
| 0:35.0 | because there can only be one best, can't they? |
| 0:38.0 | One best individual or one best team, either subjectively or objectively. |
| 0:42.0 | But everyone can improve. |
| 0:45.0 | I mean, I suppose there can be only one most improved, |
| 0:48.0 | but everyone can improve, can't they? Anything. |
| 0:51.0 | Everything. |
| 0:52.0 | I think that's quite a nice... |
| 0:55.0 | Ethos. |
| 0:57.0 | Did you see any signs of improvement? |
| 1:01.0 | What in myself today? |
| 1:03.0 | I don't know, really. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm gradually decline, it felt like today. |
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