You are listening to Durobagando by The Cycling Podcast.

Today we are in Peru. Brian. Brian Chinching-Ching-Ching.

Another day down on the Jirrittalia.

What a day it's been, another cracking day I would say time trial don't usually like

time trials but we've seen more and more I think recently we have seen more and

more exciting time trials in races generally not just in major

tours because they've got a little bit more sort of imaginative the routes fiddly some

would say climbs here and there different rules there were no sort of funky

rules today but there was that long climb at the end of the stage and it gave us a

fantastic race and a pretty emphatic verdict. We will get to that and many other things in due course

But Brian I would love to say that we are on the Corsovanucci, the famous thoroughfare in Peruja that I waxed

poetic about last night, one of the great passagatas of Italy.

Brian, I learned today an idiomatic expression that's often

employed in Peruja and people talk about Fario Navasca which kind of means

it's kind of swimming terminology for sort of doing lengths of a pool but when...

I thought I meant jumping in the bathtub.

Well it could also mean that.

But when people use that phrase in per uja they mean do length of the Corso Vanucci.

And Corsi was named after Pietro Vanucci, otherwise known as

in Perugino, the most famous painter that Peruja has known I suppose or even though he wasn't born in Peruja.

It's a bit like a Ryanair airport.

He was actually born in Chitade de la Pieva, which is a beautiful town.

...