S14 Ep44: Stage 10 | Viareggio - Massa TUDOR ITT | Giro d’Italia 2026
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Join Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci as they take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the 2026 Giro d‘Italia. Today, after a rest day, the race is back underway with an individual time trial from Viareggio to Massa on the north-west coast of Italy.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Girovagando, the cycling podcast at the 2026 Girod Italia. |
| 0:13.6 | The cycling podcast, every day on the ground at the Girod Italia since 2016. |
| 0:20.5 | Today we are in Massa. Gooda Sera |
| 0:38.3 | Alli |
| 0:39.3 | Goodsera to all you |
| 0:41.3 | Ciao, Ciao |
| 0:42.3 | Pellaci, back on the Gilles Italy, Brian, it's your last day with three of us |
| 0:46.3 | We're reunited, united in some sort of, I wouldn't call it a supergroup |
| 0:51.3 | and whatever the opposite of a supergroup is |
| 0:53.3 | something like a motley assortment of podcastscasters and chaps how are we good good |
| 0:58.0 | Brian's good palachi we are at the notorious pub in massa curious peculiar |
| 1:04.0 | location isn't it it is pelachi it is it is curious location we're opposite the station we're |
| 1:09.7 | about to drop Brian off. |
| 1:12.0 | Brian's facing a time trial of his own to get back home to Lerici this evening. |
| 1:16.8 | But we, of course, have got a time trial at the Jordan, Italian to talk about. Anyway, chaps, cheers, cheers. |
| 1:21.4 | Cheers. Cheers. Chin, salute. Good to have you back, Pelachi. Brian, thank you. We're going to thank you formally for your contribution of the last week later on. |
| 1:30.1 | But Pelachi, displaying the necessary sort of caution with the mic, please. |
| 1:35.9 | Just tell us where you've been over the last week, |
| 1:38.5 | because you've been sort of enigmatically, intriguingly making your way, |
| 1:43.1 | sort of shadowing the journey to tell you. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, just following the race for fun and having, yeah, the, you know, the week of my life |
| 1:50.0 | riding my bike and taking some trains. It was one day. |
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