S12 Ep130: Pass the Dutchies
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
With so many of the peloton’s biggest champions making the switch, we pick out which transfers excite us and surprise us the most. We’ll be discussing the comebacks of former world champions Anna van der Breggen and Pauline Ferrand Prevot in detail as well as looking at the consequences of moves by the likes of Elisa Longo Borghini, Niamh Fisher-Black, Juliette Labous, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and of course Demi Vollering.
Our mini feature takes us back to the Tour de France Femmes where Rose and Denny explored why the Dutch always dominated the women’s road racing scene. We speak to Team SD Worx’s Lorena Wiebes and Mischa Bredewold and former pro Iris Slappendel, and get an outside perspective from British riders Lizzie Deignan and Becky Storrie.
Also on the agenda, we ask what would your grandma rather eat: a mint chocolate selection box or a chocolate orange?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cycling Podcast Feminand, proudly brought to you by Shocks, bone conduction headphones. |
| 0:06.2 | This is Lionel here and for the past few weeks I've been using Shox headphones, the Open Run Pro 2 model to be precise, |
| 0:13.3 | and I've been really impressed with the comfort and sound quality. |
| 0:17.0 | They're very different to any headphones I've used before because nothing actually goes into your ear. |
| 0:21.5 | And straight away, I found this to be much more comfortable to wear, especially when exercising. |
| 0:26.6 | When I've used conventional in-ear headphones on the turbo trainer or outrunning or riding on the trails, |
| 0:31.8 | I find that they can get sweaty and slippery and sometimes fall out of the ear. |
| 0:36.3 | In-ear headphones can also compromise your awareness |
| 0:39.1 | of the sounds going on around you. Shocks, on the other hand, give you great sound, whether you're |
| 0:44.2 | listening to music or your favourite podcast, such as the cycling podcast, but they don't block out |
| 0:49.2 | what's going on around you. So how do they work? Well, shocks bone conduction technology means that they sit just |
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| 1:22.1 | actually in your ear which as I say feels a lot more comfortable to wear. Cru though, you can still hear a lot of what's going on around you, |
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