S9 Ep96: Kilometre 0 – Bring me Wilco Kelderman

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Kate Wagner, who in former lives was a classical violinist and architecture critic, is covering her first bike race – the Tour de France – and keeping an audio diary about the experience for The Cycling Podcast.

In this first of three instalments of her audio diaries, all to feature as part of the Kilometre 0 series, she talks about the art of packing for a month on the road, the French hotels, her first face-to-face meeting with a rider she has been thinking about and writing about for the past five months, Primoz Roglič. And she records her emotional response to the crashes that marred stage three.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Kilometre Zero by the Cycling Podcast, Power by Super Sapiens.
0:08.6	Energy Management for Community Dark Leads and Coaches.
0:18.8	Hello, this is Kate Wagner for the Cycling Podcast.
0:22.6	This is an audio diary entry.
0:25.3	I'm currently sitting in the back garden of our lovely Ben Brickfist here right before stage 3.
0:34.1	I'm here to report on the hotel situation.
0:37.9	So I got here in the 22nd and my first hotel was like an Airbnb.
0:44.3	It's one of those situations where there's I think some kind of ski-z landlord or something put together.
0:50.8	For Airbnb's in a house in a sort of de facto hotel.
0:57.4	And everything sort of looked nice I think at the beginning.
1:02.2	And then the day after, first of all, the power went out.
1:08.1	And the locks are electronic so I couldn't get into my room so I had to just kind of...
1:12.5	I took everything that I had down to the press center and embraced.
1:19.3	And came back and then the day after, they turned the power bug around,
1:24.4	but the day after I woke up with bug bites.
1:27.7	I was like, oh no.
1:30.5	You know what that means.
1:32.3	So I basically threw out everything I was wearing.
1:35.7	I am so paranoid about this at this point in my life with the bugs that I never leave my bag open ever when I travel.
1:45.0	Like I take off what I wear and I put it in the bag and yeah, no chances.
1:50.5	Take no chance of taking prisoners.
1:52.1	Because I got bedbugs once in answer dam and it was like truly a horrible experience.
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