I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.

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All right, Matt Dixon here just finished out the stage two of the route.

Firstly, apologies for yesterday.

We couldn't get the connectivity to work, but I hope you saw the slideshow.

And so let's talk about today.

It was cool. What do we say?

Brutal, that's right.

Two major climbs. The first one, the longest climb I've ever done in my life.

It went quite well for me.

I think the biggest thing for me was fueling and hydration and really making sure that early staying on top of it, which was really important.

On the flip side, the cruelty of this event, my brother Martin, having to drop out on this stage.

He'll be back tomorrow, I think. But heat stroke basically yesterday, really suffering.

Whole system shut down, made a really smart move. The rest of the gang, we are going to chat to.

In fact, we'll check in with Peter at the end of this video to see how it went for him today.

But the news on the road is everyone's doing very, very well. The second climb, Calder Oiswad, really scenic.

And after it's all done, I'm standing here, I can think, oh, it's not that bad. But let me see, let's see my reaction when I'm at the top of the Izwar.

Top of the coal, the Lord Izwar, no matter what I tell you, when it's all settled down,

this thing's freaking hard. I'll tell you that, it's hard. All right, so that was the truth telling right there.

That was a little clip of me suffering a little bit today.

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