Special Edition: Racing the Haute Route Alps - STAGE 6 - Méribel to Megève

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Matt Dixon

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🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to day 7 of our Haute Route coverage. Today, the team takes on THE CLASSICS.

Stage 6, the riders are headed for another climb of almost 4,000 meters as they traverse the switchbacks of the Col du Tra, before facing the Cormet de Roselend.

Matt couldn't resist and found his best ride of the course, Panos returns, Christopher attempts to add to his recent success, and Rob impresses everyone with his steady and sound performance.

Make also makes a friend along the way and enjoys some beautiful views as the Haute Route experience heads into its final day with Stage 7.

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We'll have plenty of insights and observations from Matt along the way.

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:03.5	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:09.4	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:13.3	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life.
0:21.3	All right, folks, Matt again, here we go.
0:24.0	We are almost D-U-N.
0:27.1	Yes, we are close to the finish line.
0:28.7	We are now in Mujiv, which is our Finnish town.
0:31.3	We have one stage to go tomorrow.
0:33.5	That is 100 kilometres.
0:34.8	It's very lumpy.
0:35.7	Still 2,500 metres of climbing. But let's talk about today. It started in Meribel, the ski resort. We now are in Mejave, a very, very bougie place to be indeed. And we started off this morning. Nice early start, 7.30. We had a long descent. We had to navigate through three climbs today. The good news is the
0:54.8	climbs were more accessible in grade, a lot of five, six, seven percent. Third one actually
1:00.9	probably the most challenging for people. But let's go to the start of today's stage. Let's check
1:05.4	in with Chris and Martin and see how they were feeling at the start of the stage.
1:10.9	Two more to go, guys.
1:12.5	Give me some words of wisdom.
1:15.9	Honestly, I don't know.
1:18.0	Three and a half thousand meters in 140K feels like an easy day.
1:21.9	So in comparison of what we've done, this would be a good boy.
1:26.0	Oh, very astute.
1:27.0	I can only have those bills.
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