Roadman, let's do it again. It's stage 14 of the Shirotatalia
Roadman, let's do it again. It's stage 14 of the Shirotatalia. 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 longevity? That is the question on this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Roadman Podcast. roadman welcome back to another roadman cycling podcast thank you for joining me it is the big one stage 14 from sitadilla to month zonkelong 205 kilometers taking us to the top of the famous fable sacred mountain in cycling we've seen some great riders winning up there from even basil to Chris from and mark up on tannies pulled out roads back in the day But today it was an unknown kid, Lorenzo Foronato from Contador and Baso's team, Elo that took the race and it was a massive surprise winner of stage 14, 25 year old, Italian grand tour, debutante, winning on the Zonk along after being in the break all day. It was a brilliant fairytale ending, that's what we're going to talk about today and the GC battle. Before I dive into all that, let me remind you about Patreon. Just a subtle plug about Patreon, it's how we support the podcast. So please, if you haven't subscribed already, please head on over there. It's patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore Walsh. Make a small donation to the podcast to help keep the show on the road. Well, let's talk about Lorenzo Fort Unato. So he said, and even to be commended for the photographer, taking an interview in English, a language which he's not a native speaker in after the race as a young kid, he said and slightly broken English but we'll forgive him for that. I'm very happy for today. The team is the best and in my first attacks my teammate Al Bassini was with me in the breakaway. The breakaway went easy all day but to start at the Zonk along I attacked, stayed behind My legs were very good and I'm very happy and I'm sure like for an Italian to win on Mon Zonkelong, his team manager or director is Ivan Baso who was previously won on Mon Zonkelong. COVID restrictions eased and so the Italian Tafosi was thousands of them allowed onto the climb today and that's why we love Zonkelong you know and it's a cliche but without the fans there would be no so I told them we've had 12 months of those, you know, quite draconian COVID restrictions, and now the fans are back and I know even at one point today was we did stupid Italian fan, almost pushing Lorenzo off the bike as he was you know biggest moment of his career and he nearly knocked him off the bike but it's almost what makes it so special it's that no barrier between the crowd and the rider and it's unique you know if you go to football match just hard the security guards, the same in any stadium sports, but the fans can just get up so close and personal and obviously be seen. It was a two, three years ago with Superman Lopez from Astana and the fan pushing him, knocking him off and Lopez punching the fan. You don't like to see that. That's when it spills over, but it has that potential and I think that's what makes it so gripping. That was from a big breakaway he won today and quite a fancy George Bennett. I was down the Irish here in Jarona last night and has chapped around them, Kiwi, he knew nothing about Saiklan and it just had only happened in Jarona and knew nothing about Saiklan.
He's like, oh one of my buddies George, he does a bit of Saiklan,…
He's like, oh one of my buddies George, he does a bit of Saiklan, he's into it. He's into it more than most, he's doing a trip in Italy at the moment as long as he's doing the Jero and the turns out it was made was George Bennet who was doing the Jero and in the break today and George Bennet wound up seventh today and He was actually my tip for a long time. It would a break. I thought it was a perfect finish for him But alas, it didn't happen for him. So the drunk and lad down the pub will be no doubt disappointed and that was a nice little nice little random tangent Astana took it on themselves today to do all the roiding and I suppose blast off will feel a little bit like he's let the team down to noise at dinner blast off team later for Astana a big GC Treta Contour and Astana tried to roid and I'm not sure if they're better off leaving Inios to roid or Inios are so strong and they have a group of roiders who they're going to conserve for the hill anyway and they have a group of roiders the rollers who they're going to let roid on the flat. So by Astana taking it up they've maybe you know they've ditched a few of the Inios helpers but they still have the climb and go so they've held back so you look it's six and one half those in the radar weather it was the right thing for Astana to take it up it gave any else a day off the rollers anyway because Astana took it up all day into the base of the climb hard all day and you know obviously in the end it didn't work out when the shit really hit the fan in the race today the big GC attack that we seen was Simon Yates and there was only one man who could follow Simon Yates and it was the best boy proder in this race maybe the best boy proder in world at the moment. Egan Bernal Gomez and yeah he followed Yates with seeming ease and then he whacked him with about 500 meters to go and he took more valuable time in GC which I'll go through in a second. But what I found interesting was a Reuter who's fallen apart completely at the moment and I don't want to be too critical of him because he's a great talent and he's come into the race way over how he put in my view it's Remko Evanport. He's calling Joe I made a back on the climb you can see him on the radio calling I made a back I made a sitting up but then what this is about there's no advantage to calling I made a back at that point the road is so steep there's no arrow advantage honestly I think it is just annoying me if I've been dropped having another team made around me that's waiting for me there's talk of I made a leaving at the end of the season So maybe it's a bit of a flex of ego from Remco to say, look, I'm the boss, you wait when I say wait, but I just don't see the benefit. On a climb, that's Steve. You're not getting an arrow advantage. There's no idea of tempo setting when it's 20%. It's in the last few Ks. So for me, it's it's all your team orders are Remco showing a little strappy. I don't know. I don't know. In the finish, the run through the gaps at the front obviously aren't too important.
We We had a fortune at a win in a time of five hours in 17, which is…
We We had a fortune at a win in a time of five hours in 17, which is itself barbaric to be finishing up in the snow and the clouds after five hours in 17. We'd Jan Trappnik who looked like for a long time from Bahrain victorious. I heard today that the Bahrain victorious, the victorious part of that name is named after the sponsor's horse, that it's not actually a brand, that it's just the owner's horse. Not sure the truth about that. might hit me up on Instagram DM, Rodeman.Sawitlan and let me know the truth of that. We had Alessandro Colby from UAA coming in toward then we had the real battle. We had Bernal coming in forward. Ballomas out of the break and fifth so don't worry about him. But we Bernal finished at 1.43 and Yates finished at 1.54 so he's taking 11 seconds on Yates which is you know it's it's pretty big but he put damage into the rest of them like right now the GC is Bernal, Yates is a minute and 23 seconds back but he's cloned up to second. Caruso Donoroid today is only 151 back. Vlasov's at 157, Hugh Cardi's at 211, Buckman's at 236, Chaconi who I tipped for a podium never liked them. Good to see him falling down to 7. The little prick he's down a trio tree and Remko Evan Paul completely falling apart. He is a 3.52. I don't see a point now in Joe I made a road in for Remko. Quick step out of team that rode for a top 10. Let Joe I made a goal on one stage. He looks like he has legs. He looks like he's coming strong. Simon Yates looks like he's coming super strong as well so you know we might see a very exciting last 10 days of this race with Simon Yates. Hopefully he can push Bernal and give us a bit of entertainment but I'm not so So sure, Bernal just looks calm, he looks composed and after the race he said, of a good gap but you need to become anything can happen in Jiro. He's just, you know, I say it every day but he's so humbling, so likable. Tomorrow, it's a little bit of an intermediate stage. Tomorrow kind of squeezed in between two days in the Huy Mountains. You might see a breakaway going the distance. It's stage 15, 147 kilometers from Gradle to Graziazzi. Roadmen, I'm looking forward to that one but today's Zonk along stage was epic and it's definitely one that lived up to the fabled reputation of Mon Zonk along. Roadmen, enjoy yourselves, ride safe and I'll chat to you again tomorrow. Hey everybody, it's Anthony again. Really quick, I want to invite you to join arguably the best team I've ever put out inside the Roadman community. It's a challenge, it's a challenge called a 14 day Kickstarter challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at, right now, this is going to be the catalyst for making you faster and making you the leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guesswork out of everything. It's 14 days of training plans regardless of what your level is. There's the master's beginner, advanced, there's meal plans, shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you through at all. So what I recommend you do right now is just stop everything, press pause on this audio and go to roadmancycling.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the bio that roadmancycling.com slash 14 day.