And the Hello and welcome back to the Wheel Talk podcast my name is Abby Mickey. This is a

podcast about women's professional road cycling and today is a big one. The Tour Flanders. I am joined by

Gracie Elvin. Hey hey this is going to be a big one. I reckon this is going to be

not just about our favorite race but I think this might be our favorite podcast

episode hopefully. our favorite podcast episode would be if you were also sitting here because I have Lauren Rowdy next to me.

You didn't introduce me first. I was waiting for it.

I was waiting for like Gracie to go oh good morning everyone yes I'm

back in Gerona sitting with Abbey it's it's been a long time I think two and a half years

or something since we saw each other physically, not on the weekly basis.

And I realize we have actually similar eye color.

Now that I can see...

We're sitting so close together.

A lot has happened in that two and a half years so it's nice.

Oh man so much. Yeah big because two of us are physically in the same room, but also because we had a lot of really incredible racing last week.

We had D' Wars, D'Orlandran on Wednesday, and that was a phenomenal race.

And as Gracie was just saying, before we started recording,

we all were like, oh man, what a good race,

can't wait to talk about on the podcast,

and then the tour

Flanders happened on Sunday and boy did that top I mean any race I've ever seen

Plus we had big news out of the SD Works Pro Time camp that we're going to dive into and unfortunately

we had some amazing questions on the discord that I think we'll try to get to but we do have

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