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Join us at escape collective.com forward slash join. Hello. Hello and welcome back to the Wheel Talk podcast my name is Abby Mickey and we are

here to talk about women's professional road cycling I am joined by Lauren

Rownie. O, number one today. Good morning everyone. Oh, good

afternoon. You're always number one in my heart. Good day. And today, a special guest on the podcast, Matilda Reynolds Tills.

Hi team, yeah, thanks for having me. I'm in Lawrence Territory. Well, I'm in her country.

It still feels like I'm quite far away. I'm yeah set the scene.

Well, not territory. You're closer to France. Remember there's a divide between Flanders and the rest of the country.

So yes, I'm in West Flanders. I'm on the border of France just above Lille in a place called

Bizet sort of area.

I'm surrounded by about 12 Selvello bikes

living in team accommodation.

And yeah, I've got my nose right up against the Wi-Fi router, hopefully it holds probably get nasal cancer.

But yeah, we're here. We're in the European time zone fighting off the Belgian races, but yeah, excited to talk to you guys.

We look forward to hearing about the racing.

Yeah, it's pretty short-lived.

We have a bunch of racing to talk about today and not just the Vuel to a

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