Why do we love these things, the classics?

Why do you love them? Because it's not a common thing for us not being from Europe, especially not from Belgium. These guys grow up with this. For us, well, for me anyway, it was a thing I had to learn. I didn't really see it much on TV before I came across. Why did you find yourself, I don't know if you're in love with them, but why did you find yourself going into these classics?

And what is it about these races that you like?

Well, it's definitely a love-hate relationship.

I guess they're just so, they're just so bloody hard.

You know, yeah, racing in small roads and rough roads,blestone roads nothing feels fast about it on the on the concrete block roads that we we do race on plus then you enter into the cobalstones you want to go fast you have to be really on a good one and i guess it's just i remember my first time I did them the the feeling I had afterwards was like holy shit these are these are real bike races this these are really really hard bike races

why just because you go up there and you turn up and you think you think you're going pretty good you know you've trained pretty hard all winter

or in our case we quite often we come off the tour down under and the sun tour and the cadale's race

and had a training camp got all the new kit you head up to belgium you think you're going pretty good

and then all of a sudden you're not you just get processed um it's it's a hard place to start. Just another number. That's the one thing I found out is like you said, you've got to train hard, you've got to know as much as you can about the parkour, you've got to really fight, you've got to mentally motivate yourself continually throughout the day. Come on, no, it's where I want to be, come on, keep moving up, come on keep moving up come on come on and to do all that sometimes you're just another number and that's a good day

to not be spat out by the machine almost exactly if you're still in a reasonably sized group

coming to coming across the finish line if you make it to the finish line,

you've had a good day, you know. Things have gone your way. You've had some luck. You've

obviously had the legs and it's a good sign for things to come. Thank you. I'm I'm Gide guys, and welcome to Talking Luft. You just heard from Tom Scully there, and that is an

episode that I did with him, traveling to the opening weekend in Belgium, chatting about the

racing at the opening weekend,

and then traveling back.

It's an on the road with Tom Scully.

It's a fantastic episode.

If you haven't heard that,

get across to the cycling podcast,

listen to that full episode,

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