S13 Ep106: Stage 5 | Futuroscope - Guéret | Tour de France Femmes 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 56 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 fan, brought to you in association with Wahoo. |
| 0:12.8 | Now you might be a seasoned rider on the indoor trainer, or you might be looking ahead to the autumn and winter and thinking that a structured season of training indoors will get you ready for the spring either way |
| 0:24.9 | Wahoo has a trainer for you and the Wahoo kicker is the gold standard top of |
| 0:29.8 | Wahoo's range and it's the trainer that changed the game for riding indoors |
| 0:33.9 | because it's super quiet incredibly accurate and it gives you proper hill simulations with |
| 0:39.1 | gradients up to 20% so you can get yourself ready for the climbs of the spring classics. |
| 0:44.7 | Plus it connects over Wi-Fi now so everything just works faster and more smoothly. |
| 0:49.8 | So whether you're training hard with structured sessions pushing yourself to the limit |
| 0:53.2 | or you just want to turn the legs when the weather's a bit rubbish outside, the kicker brings the road to your living room or garage or wherever you have your trainer set up. It's compatible with most 8 to 12 speed cassettes plus the Zwift, click and cog. So if you're in the market for a trainer, check out the Wahoo kicker at WahooFitness.com, |
| 1:13.0 | because Wahoo's mission is to build the better athlete in all of us. |
| 1:16.8 | From bike computers to heart rate sensors and smart trainers to ride analytics, |
| 1:21.8 | they've built an entire ecosystem to help you ride smarter, |
| 1:25.1 | wherever you are in your cycling journey. |
| 1:27.0 | From those just starting out in cycling cycling right through to competitive athletes competing at the highest level such as the Tour de France fam now it's over to Rose and Denny on the road in France |
| 1:37.3 | this is the cycling podcast Feminine at the 2025 Tour de France FAM with Rose Manley and Denny Gray, brought to you in association with Wahoo. Today, we're in Gere. |
| 2:03.6 | Yeah, I think I can say that like that. I mean, yeah, my one teammate fell down really hard. |
| 2:07.6 | One of the most important teammates in the team, so I hope she's okay. |
| 2:11.6 | I've not seen her yet, but she was back on the bike, so I assume she's okay. |
| 2:16.6 | She's a strong one. |
| 2:18.3 | But yeah, of course it was a perfect scenario. |
| 2:20.3 | We managed to get the bony sprints and finish with Sarah in the final. |
| 2:24.3 | It was the main goal to be together with Sarah. |
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