S13 Ep105: Stage 4 | Saumur - Poitiers | Tour de France Femmes 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 52 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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We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast coverage of the 2025 Tour de France fam brought to you in association with Wahoo. |
| 0:07.9 | Wahoo sponsors more than half of the teams in the Tour de France fam, including EF Education Oatley and their star riders Kristen Faulkner and Alison Jackson, |
| 0:16.9 | Fyfer Georgie and her Picnic Post-NL teammates and the former world champion Elisa Balsamo and the rest of the Lidl Trette riders. |
| 0:25.0 | Now Wahoo's mission is to build the better athlete in all of us. |
| 0:28.7 | And from bike computers to heart rate sensors and smart trainers and even ride analytics, |
| 0:34.5 | Wahoo have built an entire ecosystem to help you ride smarter wherever you are in your |
| 0:39.1 | cycling journey. For those just starting out in cycling right through to competitive athletes at the |
| 0:43.9 | very highest level such as those racing in France this week. One way to get the most out of your |
| 0:49.6 | training is to train with a heart rate monitor and if you do you want it to be two things, |
| 0:55.7 | accurate and comfortable and Wahoo's tracker heart rate monitor |
| 0:57.8 | delivers both. Super reliable, |
| 1:00.6 | very accurate, easy to wear |
| 1:02.4 | and comfortable plus |
| 1:03.8 | its fully rechargeable battery lasts over |
| 1:06.0 | 100 hours on a single charge |
| 1:08.3 | so whether you're on the bike outrunning |
| 1:10.0 | or in the gym, |
| 1:13.5 | it gives you the numbers you need and stays out of the way. |
| 1:14.7 | Just strap it on and go. |
| 1:19.2 | To find out more about Wahoo's range of equipment and accessories, |
| 1:21.3 | head to WahooFitness.com. |
| 1:24.0 | Now it's over to Rose and Denny in France. |
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