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S11 Ep115: Stage 6 | La Vall d’Uixó – Observatorio Javalambre | Vuelta a España 2023

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Join Daniel Friebe with Lionel Birnie as they recap stage 6 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.

We’ll get post-stage reaction from Daniel on the ground, rider interviews – plus a trip down musical memory lane with “El Ritmo de la Vuelta”. Over the course of the three weeks in Spain, we’ll also have regular input from our man in the peloton, AG2R Citroën’s Larry Warbasse, and much more.

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0:00.0

You're listening to El Clásico, the cycling podcast that the 2023 Vuelta España from Barcelona

0:18.0

to Madrid.

0:19.0

Today we are at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre.

0:24.0

Bramco, we asked you this morning about illness in the team.

0:29.0

You said you felt fine.

0:30.0

How did you feel on the road today?

0:32.0

Not bad.

0:33.0

I was feeling okay just couldn't speed up when the others went.

0:40.0

I just had to hold my own pace and in the end it was 30 seconds slower than the fastest guys.

0:47.0

So I didn't feel like I was going really really all out.

0:51.0

It was more like a control effort but I just could not go over that limit.

0:56.0

You just have some days like that and today was my turn with not having the best legs.

1:04.0

It looked as though you found your rhythm in the last two or three kilometres of the climb. Is that the case?

1:08.0

Yeah it was, I could actually speed up in the last two cases.

1:11.0

It was a bit strange just a bit of a, let's say a bit of a moment.

1:15.0

The race was really really hard from the gun on so I think I just...

1:20.0

Yeah, just needed to find my own rhythm, kind of settled myself a bit.

1:25.0

The good thing is I could speed up in the last two cases, still had something left in the last 500 metres as well.

1:31.0

Like I said, if this was a bad day then it's okay.

1:37.0

You are listening to El Classico, my name is Daniel Freiber and I'm the host of this episode.

1:44.0

I am adjacent to the Observatorio Astrofisico del Javalambre, where this afternoon we saw some stars wax, others wane and the planets align for Lenny Martinez.

1:57.0

And well, except Curson, a few others.

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