Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for a stage of the world through a spania. I won't lie to you

You got to have you got to have some of these stages in a 21 day stage race from

Monument to Juan de Castillo, Arnoero to Santander, stage 17, 142 K, so actually not very long, but it started

quite late. It just finished at about 6 o'clock in the evening in the cool rainy conditions in town in the

city so a little bit sketchy at the end but we do have three climbs like we open with

1500 meters at 8% break can form there and if it doesn't it can

reform with 90 k's to go on the the Alto de la estranguada, five and half

k's eight and a half percent that also had a two k's at 14 percent

and then a descent, a few hills and then the Alto de karakol

which is 7k 6.6% is also irregular and has 9 10%

kilometers in there.

Sorry but are you like were you lying to yourself last night looking at these hills and thinking okay something's gonna happen in this race?

Well I just don't understand why on some stages and we see it in the tour as well some stages every team group thing decides breakaway day because it's a breakaway day and so we're all

gonna fight with 50 of the strongest riders who aren't gee or sprinters we're going to fight for

three hours to make the break and then one of us out of 50 might win 2% chance of

winning beautiful beautiful stuff and then other stages like today

bear in mind Vanarts out condition on him is no knee fracture according to the

Vizma release but a deep wound to his right knee which requires careful attention so but with

Van art out you've got Alpassin with Groves to control and maybe DSM. DSM.

Like...

Those are the two teams on paper that you'd say would be controlling today's stage.

So it's also third week grantor, which never underrates, how tired some riders have become over the last two and a half weeks and as a

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