Vuelta a España 2025 - Stage 2
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
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🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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In this episode of the weekly show Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap the second stage of the 2025 Vuelta a España.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for stage two of Lavuelta, |
| 0:04.1 | Spainia. A lot of drama today actually on a stage where we might not have expected. |
| 0:09.2 | This episode is brought to you by Pillar Performance, but we have a hockey stick stage, which is |
| 0:15.6 | exponential. The climb gets exponentially more difficult. |
| 0:20.4 | 161Ks from Albert to Limoni Piomonte in Italy. |
| 0:23.7 | No categorized climb. |
| 0:24.8 | So really, I don't like it because you've got to offer the cahas and the Burgos. |
| 0:32.5 | You've got to offer them something if you're going in the break. |
| 0:34.8 | And give them some KOM points. |
| 0:37.0 | You can put it somewhere on these little hills. |
| 0:39.3 | So I think that's mean, but anyway, it's flat pretty much. |
| 0:43.9 | It then the climb gradually works its way up. |
| 0:46.8 | Big roads, not technical. |
| 0:48.3 | This is really like a straightforward stage, typical welter stage, |
| 0:53.0 | actually despite being initially. The last four and a half cases climb is 6.5%. |
| 0:56.0 | The last 2Ks are 8%. |
| 0:58.0 | It just gets progressively more difficult, but we do have rainy conditions today. |
| 1:03.0 | So rain initially and it's been summer. |
| 1:07.0 | I don't know how often it's been raining. |
| 1:10.0 | Whether the roads whether the roads could |
| 1:11.9 | be slippery, so there would be more nervousness than usual. Anything else pre-stage, Benjamin |
| 1:17.2 | Narsson? Not necessarily. We just started all the stage with the breakway rolling up ahead, |
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