It's the Jiro D'Italia Stage 1, 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, this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Welch and welcome to the Row Man Podcast. Row Man, welcome. So it's zero to tally. It's the 140 edition and I've decided to do a daily podcast again. I knocked out a daily podcast for the tour, the 0 and the Vuelta last year. They're super popular. You know, we can see it in the figures coming through from the downloads in the podcast form. So I said, look, well, you know, trying to expand it out into Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, all the other good places where you're hanging out. So as they're going live there, you're getting a little bit of a heads up on the podcast people. But if we have guests and stuff on, maybe I'll only keep them over on the podcast because honestly, the podcast is where the huge viewer figures are for us and your platforms are a little bit peripheral. But nevertheless, we'll try it out and we'll see how it goes. So we are in to the 104th Jiro de Talya. Before I jump into the podcast proper, let me just remind you all about Patreon, because Patreon is how we fund the podcast. If you don't currently listen to the podcast, it's live every single day with five days a week. We knew a little bit of a taper for the year old. So I've been off the gas lately, but it's normally five days a week. Yesterday we had Jay Vine from Alpiesin Fenix on it. It was a great episode. Knocked out four days a week and we haven't taken on any sponsors. So the way we fund the podcast, it's user contributions. This keeps us sterile. And me and Jay talked about it yesterday or sorry, neutral, right? and me and Jay talked about yesterday because there's no conflicts then. I can get him on and he rides a canyon and I'm not going to, you know, my toilet sponsor is not specialized and then they're, you know, he can't come on because he rides a canyon and the sponsor more specialized. It gets messy. So we've kept a totally user phone that, so if you want to buy me a beer over the course of Patreon, that's how we fund the podcast over the course of the year up. That's how we fund the podcast over on patreon.com. It's forward slash Anthony underscore. the wall. I'll link it around the place over the course of the Jiro. You can buy me the price of a beer once a month that you'll say, thanks for the podcast. I'm enjoying it, getting some value out of it. So the link is there. Okay, let's dive into it, folks. It is the 104th Jiro d'Italia. And this year's race, it has a little bit of everything we have a gravel stage. We have Mon Zong along, we have the final TT into Milan. And it is dubbed the world's even if this is self-dulped and on a Euro sport art, the world's hardest race in the world's most beautiful place. So I'm super excited to cover it and I know there is other podcasts out there to do a daily j-year-old and tour podcast. I actually enjoyed a move podcast with Armstrong and Hincapie, except if it wasn't a 40-minute podcast, it was like 37 minutes of fucking ads. That would be a lot better. So I'm not going to subject you to that. And just looking around the room like, here's an ad for safety pins. This is probably brought to you by safety pin supplier. It's absolutely shocking. I don't know how to get away with so many ads. Anyway, we 21 stages this year starting today, May 8, and we're running until the tortilla. That is 3,450 kilometers where we're dipping into Slovenia and Switzerland as we go. You're definitely going to need your climbing legs if you're going to contend this year's year-old because we have stages 6, 8 and 9 with all over 3,000 meters of climbing. We have to wait until stage four for our first uphill finish and the really meltwater in once, our stage 11 when we get a little sample of Strada Bianchi and it's a gravel stage and I know these are highly controversial. If you think back to last year's tour we had Richie Porte puncture and a gravel section over top of one of the climbs in the final week. Not sure if I loved them in the final a week because a lot of the hard work has been done and then to completely, you know, throw it into the hands of face as to who is going to contend GC. I don't love that idea. But what thrown it into the second week, it's a spectacle. And even jumped to Jay yesterday. It's an interesting one because for us, it's a spectacle for the Reuters. It's terrifying.
He doesn't have to prove his innocence, that's not the way it works. So Ren goes back, he looks fresh, we'll get into today's time trial because he did look fresh in today's time trial and yeah look he called Dewap, or I think he's overhiped for this race given that he has no race there, his legs. He's not overhiped as a rider, I think he's the real deal but I just I don't know maybe rides his way into We'll see, but it just seems a big time. It's a first-grand tour and he hasn't ridden the bike or raced the bike in almost 12 months. It seems it's gonna be difficult for the kid. Hugh Curtis from a Rafacondor rider, EF Education Now. He won up the Angrilu last year. Again, if you've climbed the legs like that, you can't be, we can't overlook him, but at the same time, I just don't see him challenging a podium. Other riders of Nogjay Hindley, Vlasov, Bookman. I think our podium is going to be Brannal, Yates, and Brannal, Yates. Oh, I don't know. Brannal, Yates. My heart says, Remko. But my head says, I think, Nibali can probably squeeze in, because just the experience, the nearly the sense of this. I'm going to go with heart. I'm going to to go. Brennav, Nibali, Remko. Let me know in the comments, DMs, Twitter, Instagram, everywhere, who you think is going to be the podium. Stick it down, nail your colors, tear the mast, tell me who your podium is this year. None of your sitting on the fence, Shoyce. TT, today, I actually caught a pre-recorded this podcast yesterday because the TT today was, it went the obvious way. It went to be Philippe Bogana, it was an 8.6 kilometer TT. Wait and you here, then fucking speed this lad on, 58.7 kilometers per hour. For an 8.6 kilometer TT, it was absolutely insane. So hopefully Bogana said afterwards that it's been, it's been a lot of time that I wasn't in the hot seat, but I'm here so I'm really happy now. We have to take tomorrow and start to recovery. It would be really hard to hear. I started with a smaller radio, but I didn't hear anything. So I told myself to go full gas and listen to the people on the road. So they cheered for me, then I knew I was going fast. That's how I got this amazing victory. After my after roman, the more morale wasn't too high, but now it's back. And I'm really happy. He seems almost unbeatable in those type efforts. So we had Philip Bogana winning at a time of eight minutes and 47 seconds. We've a fieney from Yumbo Visma, 10 seconds back, fast, or Dain seconds back. Yeah, Almeida, 17 seconds back, Kavanya, 18. We'd order notable performances. Remko was seventh, only 19 seconds back. Lassoff and another GC, he got 24 seconds back. And yeah, no one gave away crazy time. Victor Carpernarett's was a bit further back than I thought he would be. If I was maybe picking someone as an outsider for the stage, I would have picked him, the World Era record holder. He was 32 seconds back. Hugh Cardi gave up 38 seconds. for an hour, gave up 39 seconds. And our very own Nicholas Rochi will be awesome. We're gonna one join the Jiro at some point. We'll see how busy he is at 40 seconds. Nibley was at 40 seconds with the boys as well. So nobody lost crazy amounts of time. And yeah, we're heading into stage two tomorrow. Folks, I'm gonna back on this. I'm not comparing the sofa, and then I'm gonna go through for the next three weeks what the lads are gonna go through, with the Daily Jiro podcast, it is gonna be difficult. Thanks for joining me and Roadman, I'm gonna chat here tomorrow. Do all that stuff, like sharing it around, tell everyone we're doing it, send it into your WhatsApp groups. It's gonna be a great tree mix. We're gonna have a bit of fun and normally the sterile crap that you'll get on some of your other podcasts. Roadman, thanks for listening, chat to you tomorrow. Hey everybody, it's Anthony again. Really quick, I want to invite you to join arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. It's a challenge. It's a challenge called a 14 day kickstart challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at right now, this is gonna 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 masters, 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 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.