You're listening to Aribe by the cycling podcast. Well, the men may have just started their first grand tour of the season but the women have

already finished one and that's why we're back the cycling progress feminine bring

you this special arivei episode about the Vuelta feminina my name is Rose Manley and I'm delighted to say that I'm joined by

Denny Gray of the British Continental. I can see him down the line sitting there

with his big calculator, his crystal balls, all the tools he needs for excellent insight,

Debbie.

Well, your introductions just get better and better, Rose, they really do.

I know, well that's because I just used to give you such a terrible humiliating

introduction that now I'm trying to big you up a bit more.

No, thanks for the Crystal Balls reference as well. I don't know what images that's

conjuring up for

listeners but hopefully they're pleasant ones. Well we better stop going

down that route almost immediately but yeah then we've got loads to talk about, don't we, about the Welter

Pemina. Obviously this is going to be a Rivay episode, so it's full of spoilers, full of us

analyzing exactly what happened, but it gave us plenty to talk about it was a really

interesting race almost every day there was kind of a new talking point wasn't there?

Yeah lots of lots of

storylines a really kind of mixed diverse parkour as well which I think helped but the

racing itself was was tremendous and very varied crashes. We had the team time trial of course

mountain stages, some interesting sprint storylines, some new stars emerging so

yeah it was there was plenty to talk about which I'm sure we'll get into

in a minute Rose yes we certainly well well I will give everybody a little reminder and I have

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