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in Northern Ireland. Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling podcast presented by Zwift,

a huge stage for the podcast, for Zwift, and for some of the riders involved. We were perhaps

disheartened by the passivity of the recent stages, and we didn't hype up this stage from Bill Bauer

to our senseon. I'm just going to call it Pico Hano, 182 kilometres long. It doesn't look that hard,

but it does have the most elevation gain in the whole race, and the Coyada de Brenes, 6.2

cases, 8.7% is hard. The final climb really isn't that hard. Pico Hano, 12.6 kilometres,

6.5%, it's got a little flat section in the middle, but all of the sort of estimations and

projections get thrown out the window when the weather changes rapidly. It's been very hot

in the Vuelta. It's not extreme cold today. No one's rugged up. There's still in some of

jerseys, but it's gone from 35 and to 15 degrees of the finish, cold at this finish. It's raining

for a lot of this stage, and so the temperature changed day to day makes a big difference.

Some riders struggling, like a Gita and a Yusso in the heat. How will they go in the cooler

wet conditions? But we had Benji a break away with the Ikepluchenko, you could find with neither of

them. No, here's this Harada. It was Mark Padoon, there's the big name in that break.

Exactly. Mark Padoon was in that break away. We obviously know what happened in the race

last year where he struck quite highly. It was the Dofinet where he won two stages in a row.

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