Welcome back to the Luncheon Rouge cycling podcast supported by the cold here with Benji as always full stage five of the welter

Espania the stage literally no one was asking for another pure spring stage whoever designed this first week holy

like

for a climber's race having this many pure spring stages it's been

Soon rough particularly stage two on the Sunday dinner how that went down anyway 185 case pancake flat

intermediate sprint with like 63 case to go no one was watching then and everyone just kept talking

about crosswinds which is like

cope in my opinion yes they turn at 30 case to go they're on a highway the whole time today

it looked like UAE stage honestly and um yeah there was supposed to be strong enough wind there

I guess but typical break Benji um we've had every other spring stage

yeah we've had us put it in the breakway once again spoke about him a few days ago

he's that you 23 time troll guy then we have uh polio sanchez something like that

I'm talking this from my mind to this time around and uh lascano of kaharidol also in the breakaway

of that breakway we had uh lascano hold on the longest and well the gap

to from the breakway to the peloton was actually quite noticeable you had two minutes with like

30 cage go usually they try and keep it at like one minute but this was all because of the

nervousness going into those last 30 kilometers like you mentioned but hey before that at 50

cage ago intermediate sprint philipsen taking uh more points in the mart air so a few people

commented and asked how the point system works for the intermediate sprints it's uh 20 to 10 points

scaled down from first to fifth in this race so it's kind of like the Tour de France but not as

many people getting points basically and uh yeah philipsen and the mart are the lowest two positions

so i think like 13 and and 10 or 11 than 10 points something along the lines of that but uh that

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