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Energy Management for Community that Leads and Coaches.

Hello, my name is Hugh Owen and I'm one of the producers of the Cycling Podcast

and I'm Adam Bowie and I'm another producer of the Cycling Podcast.

And so perhaps Adam we should start by saying where were we on Sunday?

Well Hugh, at the end of Sunday we were at the top of Alp Dues.

We were weren't we, in the beginning of Sunday we were 103 miles away from Alp Dues

with three massive mountains in between the two points weren't we?

Yeah, yeah we were basically scared senseless in a large starting pen at Briancon.

We were because we were there to do the it's apt at all, 2022 and we didn't know that we were,

each other were doing it until a few weeks before. I think we spotted on the email that we were both doing it.

And so Lionel suggested or asked us if we wanted to record some of our experiences.

So that's what we both did individually. We kind of on the ride and before the ride and now we recorded

some bits of audio just to kind of document our experience, our suffering. And so in this episode

of Comments A zero that's what we're going to do and it's going out on the day of Stage 12

of the Tour de France which is the stage that we rode. That's right, yeah so for those who don't

know the Attempt Tour is it's a mass participation sort of sportive organised by ASO who are the

organisation behind the Tour de France. It's been running since 1993 and it usually runs over

a stage, a full stage, mirroring one in that year's tour, the most recent to be in the Alps and

the Pyrenees. It's also actually a race, there is a winner of it, there's podium and everything,

not that I'd think I've a hue or I would particularly challenging for that. For obvious reasons,

it hasn't taken place for the last couple of years. I think the last one was due to happen in 2020,

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