Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Rest Day with Jack Egg.

This episode is going to be a bit of a life update I guess and another solo episode seeing as a lot of people seem to like the previous solo episode

now since then I've recorded two more episodes one with Mateos Gobbecker a teammate of mine before he went to America to race

unbound and then another one with Carlos Rodriguez from Inios who went on to win the final stage of Criterion Dauphine and finish

quite well on the GC in Dauphnaire. Now, since the last one I went to

Now since the last one I went to Frankfurt for the one day world tour race but unfortunately that didn't really go so well for me and ended up flying there having dinner the two nights before the race and getting some food poisoning.

And I basically spent 36 hours in a hotel in Germany and then flew home again, which wasn't ideal.

And after that, I went off to do some Twitter France recon.

We went to go recon the Stage 9 gravel and the Stage 7 individual time trial.

The Stage 9 gravel, it's probably a stage where you're not going to win the Tour de France, but it's definitely a stage where you can lose it.

And it's highly likely we see one, maybe two of the top GC contenders at least have a problem problem there and maybe fall out of contention. The gravel

when we recond it was maybe a little bit better than I expected, but then again it was at the end of winter after some rain and cold,

so I mentioned the gravel was probably a little bit more compact than what we'll see in the Twitter France during the summer. We went there to test some equipment and also

just to give a bit of peace of mind on what the course is going to be like. We rode the last

sixty seven kilometers of the stage. The stage is two

a hundred kilometers in total. We tested higher sizes all the way

from the 28 millimeters which we normally use all the way up to 35 millimeter tubulous

continental GP 5000s and I think we'll probably settle on either 30 or 32 millimeter tires with the Marita

reacto frame which is the more aerodynamic sort of harsher frame just because there's not that much

climbing elevation and it'll be quite fast. After that the stage 7 time trial is 25.2 kilometers long and also relatively straightforward.

The recon is mainly just to give again a bit of peace of mind and to be able to sort of mentally visualize

what the stage is going to be like when we arrive there in the tour.

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