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Wheel Talk Special: A very extensive Giro Donne recap

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Strap in Wheel Talk listeners this one is ... long. Matt and Loren are back with Abby to chat all the biggest stories from the Giro Donne and they are joined by a special guest and friend of the pod Matilda (Tils) Raynolds. They talk about this being Annemiek’s final Giro, what that means for the future, how the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift has changed the Giro and more.

Hear from Niamh Fisher-Black (SD Worx), Sarah Roy (Canyon//SRAM) and Nina Kessler (Jayco-AlUla) plus some really special audio diaries from Iris Slappendel and Gracie Elvin about Annemiek’s Giro Donne journey and being her teammate.

Perhaps listen to this one in two sittings, or on a long ride, but it’s definitely not one to miss!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Neve. From Post-Eurodon, in 2023.

0:05.0

I survived another one, huh?

0:10.0

Nine days this time?

0:11.0

Well, actually, eight days, because first stage was cancelled, but yeah no less tough.

0:19.8

I think yeah this was an unrelenting dearer I mean every day was it was a tough day

0:29.6

always up and down a lot of climbing and yeah not really many sprint days in the end but yeah the

0:39.0

last stage was another hot one incident in here, some more notable climbs but not super steep, so just the kind of climb that drags on, you know, long and enough pace that you're just dropping or sweat and just, yeah, I feel like

0:59.8

your perceived rate of exhaustion.

1:08.0

The exertion goes so much out of work in the heaters. Not much power feels like a lot.

1:11.0

Also the end of a stage race but yeah anyway we came over the top

1:16.6

of that client as a team in three Blanca Anna Shackley and I and there were quite a lot of attacks after the climb and we also

1:26.2

were quite keen to try take one last opportunity you know getting a break away but nothing really stuck then it was

1:35.3

downhill fast all the way to the finish so we sprinted for Blanca but yeah it was a it was a

1:41.6

tricky full gas front, that one.

1:45.2

And yeah, Blanca just, I mean,

1:48.0

it was difficult to check and I

1:50.5

on the best lead-out train, but so So yeah, she rode to top 10 or something.

1:55.0

But yeah, it was not a bitter end to the Jura, I think we were really happy with the Jura as a team.

2:01.0

We definitely had a lot to celebrate and yeah I mean it was

2:09.1

super enjoyable and super cool. Obviously like my own expectations I didn't really meet. I be honest

2:21.5

my writing was a little bit inconsistent and that's not what you need for

2:25.2

for a tour in G.C but I think it's also part of the challenge you know to just put that behind you and like

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