Vuelta a España 2025 - Stage 16
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In this episode of the weekly show Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap the 16th stage of the 2025 Vuelta a España.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast, the recap of stage 16 of La Vuelta. |
| 0:05.0 | Again, after the rest day like we had in Bilbao last week, today we have one of the most interesting stages in the entirety of the Vuelta, |
| 0:14.0 | because it's not a UniPuerto, it's not a soft mountain top finish, it is a, it's a raid stage, it's a medium mountain stage |
| 0:24.1 | with very steep fake news climbs. This is originally, I think we were really going hard on |
| 0:30.0 | the fake news climb like narrative back in 2021 around these sort of stages. From Pollo to |
| 0:36.0 | Castro de Ervil. |
| 0:37.7 | As I said many times, it's the stage where Lopez got in the car because Bahrain went on a long-term |
| 0:43.1 | raid, a long-distance raid. It is wide roads on the valleys and descents. Well, there's no |
| 0:49.4 | valleys on the descents because of the, and then satellite riders can be very, very useful. |
| 0:53.4 | It steep climbs the final |
| 0:55.2 | begins about 40ks to go with the 3.7k 7% shallow descent 3.2k's 9% with an absolute wall in the |
| 1:05.0 | middle of it guys were standing still descent a one mile punch of 6% descent and and then in theory, in theory, an 8k 5.5% finish with |
| 1:16.2 | 3Ks at 8%, but it remains to be seen what would happen there. I am just give me a bit of slack |
| 1:23.1 | today, a bit tired. I did have, I did eat, like I eat Morton. I had Morton on the flight this morning. |
| 1:31.0 | Like I had a Morton bar for breakfast on the flight. I don't know if that's like allowed, but... |
| 1:37.6 | Yes. It's allowed. |
| 1:39.5 | I've done that definitely a few times where in the morning I want to jump on the bike and do a bit of a ride |
| 1:45.2 | or even a Zwift race at like 9 or 8 in the morning and I'm like, okay, let's try and find |
| 1:50.2 | some breakfast or should I just eat a bar before I ride because I don't want it to be on my |
| 1:54.5 | stomach for that ride. |
| 1:55.7 | So I was shoving a bar. |
| 1:57.0 | That's my strat. |
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