It's the Jiro D'Italia Stage 1, let's cue that intro
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.
Stages I'm picking out today are like the six, eight, and nine with…
The stages I'm picking out today are like the six, eight, and nine with the three thousand meters of climb. if you're a roiter tonight sitting down in your hotel room and you're picking up the race manual and you're looking at these stages, these are the horrific stages you're not looking forward to. So it's it's going to not balance between this has got to be a manageable event for roighters and it's got to be enjoyable for spectators. The jiro definitely leans more towards this is going to be an event for spectators. So let's see how it goes. We always hear back these crazy stories from the jiro. Reuters have the foyer or bus transfers and shitty hotels. We'll look, it's a little bit apart of the game. What is it? There's a word that goes before a cycling and that's pro cycling. Manager used to say that to me. Stage 11 is the gravel stage. And then we have to wait till stage 14 for one of the most iconic climbs in our sport, Montzunkalung. It's an absolute wall. And obviously each day as I go, I'll give you the preview of the stage. I'm just giving you a few stages to mark in your diary at the moment. And the second last stage is an absolute epic. Mount Zonkalung obviously stands out with the Queen's stage, but the second last stage, the Penultimate one, is 4,800 metres of climbing, and that is going to sting after three weeks of racing. And then we head into Milan for the 29 kilometre TT. Some are rattle true and think about who we reckon is a contender for this year's 0. We've got Eigen Bernal as a standout rider, I think he's came back last year to defend this Tour de France and he was was worse than choice. He was pure muck. He was pure horse than choice around the same level. But he was worse than that. He was real bad. He was riding like a lad at the pressure of the world on him. And I know when you're throwing any else jersey on, you definitely have a lot of extra pressure. And Bernal with the expectations of Colombia on him, a young kid, winning the Tour de France. And he didn't deal with it. Last year, he just looked like the lad with the weight of the world on his shoulders. And he didn't perform. and he actually looked like he was telling that way in the world up the climbs he was going out the back so early. I think this year he looks better. We've seen him in the classics and he's been active, he's been at the front of Boy Grace's in the classics, Stradob Yankee put in a massive ride. So I think he's good and I think he's going to be a hard man to beat for this year's Euro to Harley, especially with how much climb there is in it. But if anyone has gone to beat him, these are the guys that are going to do it. We had Simon Yates, can anyone ever tell the difference in Simon and Adam Yates. When I read the earlier on, it was like Simon Yates, bike exchange. It's like, oh, did he not go out to any else? So yeah, there's actually two in Simon and Adam Yates. So Simon Yates, if you had cast her mind back to 2018, he won three stages in 2018 and he held that Maglia Rosa Pink jersey for I think over 10 days. It was a pretty epic ride from him that year. And obviously we've had Matt White on the podcast, we've had Bling matches on the podcast, big fan of the bike exchange team. We've Chris he or Jenson there. We had a bunch of background staff on the roadman's summit earlier this year, so there are a good bunch of lads. So I wish them all the best and hopefully Simon Yates can pull something good off. And, namely, you can't look past the shark. What is the winner in 2013? He's the winner again in 2016. Yes, you will say he's 36 years old. Yes, you will say he broke his wrist only a couple of weeks ago. And both of those are probably good reasons to discount him, but I felt I had to mention him anyway. I don't think he's going to be there in the shake up. Remko Evanport, all the pre-race medias about this kid, Remko Evanport, but he fell off the sort of a cliff last year and he hasn't been saying on a bike since. So we literally have no idea what his form is like. Fell off the sort of a cliff, gotten brawled in that controversy around what he had in his pocket. He didn't need any of that. It was kind of nasty at the time for a young lad. He actually, we got to this weird place in Saiklyn where you're not there to have something in your pocket and you assume to be guilty until you prove your innocence. Like who gives a shit what's in his pocket, a packet of tic-tacs?
He doesn't have to prove his innocence, that's not the way it works
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.