S13 Ep102: Stage 2 | Brest - Quimper | Tour de France Femmes 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Follow along as they cover the race from the Grand Départ in Brittany to its conclusion in the Alps. There will be interviews, insight, features and Denny’s inevitable daily pilgrimage for cheese.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the cycling podcast coverage of the 2025 Tour de France fam, supported by Wahoo. |
| 0:06.4 | If you're training with heart rate, you want two things. You want the heart rate monitor |
| 0:09.9 | strap to be comfortable to wear and you want the data to be accurate. Wahu's tracker heart rate |
| 0:15.3 | monitor delivers both. It's super reliable, easy to wear, and the chest strap is comfortable. |
| 0:21.3 | Plus, the fully rechargeable battery lasts over 100 hours on a single charge. |
| 0:26.1 | So, what's that? |
| 0:27.1 | About a week's worth of training. |
| 0:28.7 | Whether you're on the bike, outrunning or in the gym, it gives you the numbers you need and stays out of the way. |
| 0:34.0 | Just strap it on and go. |
| 0:36.1 | To find out more, go to WahooFitness.com. Now it's over to Rose and Denny on the way. Just strap it on and go. To find out more, go to wahu-fitness.com. |
| 0:39.2 | Now it's over to Rose and Denny on the road. |
| 0:45.4 | This is the cycling podcast Feminine at the 2025 Tour de France Fam with Rose Manley and Denny Gray, |
| 0:52.3 | brought to you in association with the Wahoo. Today we are in Kampere. The Well, playing us in there were some fantastic traditional Breton music, lots of bagpipes, lots of drums, something that we recorded this morning, wasn't it, Denny Gray in Compaire, which is the finished town of the second stage of the Tour de France fam. |
| 1:38.6 | We're actually still in Compaire, aren't we? We haven't left? We're enjoying one of many little squares in this historic town. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, this is the Plas Teroduk, which is probably terribly... |
| 1:51.0 | Oh, it said so fluently. |
| 1:53.0 | But it literally means the place of the land of the Dukes. |
| 1:57.0 | This used to be, this kind of goes back to the time when the area was run by |
| 2:02.8 | the Dukes of Kornuay and we have the music today with lots of celebrations going on because |
| 2:08.0 | it is the festival of Kornuai here in Kampa. Hence all the Breton bagpipes and amazing festivities, |
| 2:17.1 | amazing kind of Breton costumes we're seeing |
| 2:19.1 | kind of lace headdresses and all sorts of, I mean, I've never seen so many people in traditional |
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