Stage 4 Preview and Cycling News
It's Stage 4 of the Vuelta Aspania, let's cue that intro! The big question is this, how do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our long changes? That is the question on this podcast, we'll give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Roleman Podcast. Roadman, it's stage 4 of the Vuelta Spania. Welcome back to another Roadman podcast. Before I dive into today's podcast, big congratulations to Arlan's Lara Gillespie. She took a silver in the under 23 European pursuit at the European Championships in Holland's today, which is a massive result. And she was actually forced in the qualifying, so fastest in qualifying. Fortunately, I don't get any medals for that but she was second overall. So there you go. Silver medal, good stuff Laura, Chappo. Also other interesting news I taught today before the stage got on her way. I seen Tibo Pinot is back in action at the tour of Limwa. A quote from him because he always gets this Recurring criticism that he's fragile mentally. So he said I wanted to show him still here because people have talked a lot since last year saying I'm on holidays enjoying life, having barbecues that I don't have the right mentality. A lot of stupid things like that but I have pride, I have ego and I want to show who I am. I have to say I like Tebowpano and I know he has a lot of vocal critics and I would like to see him back. I feel like he's the opposite to what idiots are. They're clinical, they're off the power meter, he is just he's raw, he's passionate, he's everything they're not so yeah look I'd love to see Tebow back. Also before the stage got underway today we're seeing Richard the snake carapace getting whacked with a 22nd time penalty yesterday for an illegal fate. Good good job commissar! That little brick deserves every penalty he gets. So today we had a 164 kilometer stage. We went from Ilburgo to Osma to Molina that Arlegard completely flat stage, a little bit of a kick up at the end. I suppose if you're a director sporty that morning the big danger was crosswinds and that would have scared the shit out of a lot of roighters and made for some tense roiden. We had a friend of the show Jay Voyne shown his colors and doing a lot of roiden on the front for his Albus and Fennec's sprinter. The real drama, the race was dominated by a tree man break which got real back but for me the real drama nearly didn't start until 2-3k to go with that joss off our position and Raine Terume went down, and the race leader went down, crashed with 2K to go. And although he's gonna get the same time as the rest of the peloton, cause it's an incident inside the last 3K, it really underscores the importance of why we see these teams fighting for position at the front of the race. It might seem like wasted energy keeping Rog Litter, Egan Bernal up the front of the race, but it's a simple maths equation. It's like, if you have four people on front of you, there's four chances of someone on front of you crashing. If you have 200 people on front of you, just 200 chances and I'd say that's even actually multiple because we look at handled and you can't do this Matt's because it's fake Matt's but it does a fucking much bigger chance of you being in an incident so wasted energy is not the correct term for it it's the right use of energy to put that out at the right time.
Jakobsen Completes Comeback Win
Rantarumay although he's wearing the race lead you know it was great seeing him win a stage yesterday he hasn't won a stage in the Vuelta for a decade but he's not a GC contender want a group to where Cooper don't have a team to ride on the front and keep him safe so So unfortunately he is a victim of these, he can't say unlucky crashes but they're crashes from poor placements. And also you think someone gets the same time so there's no real damage but the impact of those crashes. You know, they don't look sore on TV and you know if you fall in your couch or cushions it doesn't hurt. But as a man who has hit the deck more times than I care to mention, I'll tell you, the concrete is a consistent lover. She is hard every single time. will fuck you up. So he's not gonna sleep well tonight. That impact is gonna last him for days if not a week to come. Stuff's gonna be out of line. It's a horrible situation. We've seen a chaotic lead out to this uphill sprint and this always seems to be the way with the uphill sprints harder to get the trains organized. FDJ, Groupama, for Demar, Troy to get it organized. You need to leave these super late. They left it late but maybe not quite enough or maybe just Demar didn't have the legs. But anyway, in the end it was Fabio Jakobson the tucket, completing the comeback. I know he won a couple of stages in the Toro Wallonia a few weeks back and that helped to build his confidence but it's a big win for him and I think it underscores that he is back from that horrific injury. We can all remember that injury with Dylan Grunewagen in the tour of Poland where wrongly in my view the talk was about Grunewagen closing the door for him when in reality it wasn't a Grunewagen problem. Grunewagen done nothing that Mokesprinter's wouldn't have done but it was a downhill sprint with some barriers that were just shocking. And the criticism was pointed at Tilling Runaway, and he got a big ban, unfortunately. And, you know what, even though Jakobsen got completely fucked up in that crash, he didn't endear himself to me the way he went on, like, you know, bitching about Grunaway, and now subsequently soon, and stuff. I didn't like it, so yeah, I don't know. I don't know what to think about Jakobsen after that. Anyway, we'll park all that. It's a big comeback story regardless, because he had shocking injuries, severed vocal cords, sounds horrific and that was one of the milder injuries this lad had, brain contusions, it was horrific. It was touching God whether he was going to make it for a while. So today to win out from Philipson who, as we said, Albus and Finnex, they were some crazy work for him and Michael Machia was just sprinting very consistently. It's all about leaving it late and look to these races, if you're a racer yourself, even a club league racer, what can you learn from this? Slog Uphill finishes you can't hit the wind too early. You got to leave it late, leave it late. 75 meters is all you went from today. So you hear these you got to go from 200. You got to know the terrain, you got to know the wind, you got to know the gradients and today 75 meters. That was it. That was enough to win them the stage. Really hard to leave it late. It requires patience and it requires holding your position. I just watched that and I watched that hectic run in and I just can't reconcile how he's still able to do that after that crash in Toro, that's why they get paid these big bucks, they are nerves asteal these lads.
GC Standings and Ice Barrel Preview
Jakobson on the finish line, he said I started winning Grand Tours of Welta two years ago and to be here again winning in a bunch of sprint while the accident will be always part of my life. Now I can put it behind me and go for sprint finishes because that's what I'm going to ask. Mixed daylands, good man Jakobson, Yeah, might be a little bit of a prick. I'm not sure. I'm gonna hold. I'm gonna hold my tongue on that one. The GC, it is still my entire mate, right? Holding the GC for what it's worth at this time of the race and Kenny Ellison second, 25 seconds back. GC for real starts and third place with Primo's Roglage at 30 seconds back. As I said, we can't really tune much into it. Roadman, tomorrow I'm not going to do a Vuelta daily podcast. Instead, I'm going to bring you an amazing interview with the founder of a company that I'm just infatuated with at the moment called Ice Barrel. Ice Barrel is anyone listens to the podcast regularly, you'll know all about coal therapy, coal therapy for its ability to burn fat for its meditative properties, for its mental health benefits. I love coal therapy. So there's this thing I've ordered and it's basically like a big empty Guinness barrel and they've figured out how to insulate it. So it keeps the coal water colder, keeps the heat out, built a wheel out of ladder up to it and all. I have one of these ordered. It looks the nuts up. I'll post a picture of my Instagram as soon as I get it. It's roadman. That's all I'm going to follow me over on Instagram. But I interviewed a founder of this around call therapy. Why call therapy is important? Why you need to integrate this into your life. It's a really cool interview and that's coming tomorrow Roadman. So until then, chat to you. Ride safe and talk to you soon. Okay, stop what you're doing, it's Anthony again. I want to talk to you for one second about the next step in the roadman journey. I'm laying down a challenge for you, it's called the 8-week challenge. So for 8 weeks, I'm challenging you to be the very best version of yourself, whatever that is. For 8 weeks, I want to take you under my wing and I want to personally build for you the customized training plan on our analytics platform. plan it's gonna be laser focused on your goal and I'm gonna navigate around your life, your work, your social commitments so don't worry about what your circumstances are right now. I remember after I took some time out of cycling I went off and taught a really big businessman I came back and I realized I wanted to get into cycling but I knew after a bit to train it alone it actually wasn't making me any fitter. My needs is an entire system it needs a 360 overhaul so for the first time ever. I want to share with you this exact system I use to get back in shape. I'm talking stuff like I'm going to give you my morning routines, the cold therapy I use, the cookbooks and recipes I use and even the motivational audios by listening to get back on track. So right now what I want you to do is pause this audio, go to www.roadmancycling.com forward slash eight week or check out the link in the bio, click that. So one more time It's roadmancycling.com forward slash eight weeks. Chatty also.