Hello you beautiful cycling fans and welcome back did you miss me on…
Hello you beautiful cycling fans and welcome back did you miss me on the rest day. I'm back it's the time trial it's Paul and there's some serious serious shakeups on GC. So let's jump right in but before we do let's have a quick word from Missing Piece. If anyone tuned into the last episode my Missing Piece shopboards arrived. Missing Piece are our show sponsor for the Vuelta aspania and they were coined enough to send me out. Two, I suppose they could only be described as luxury job boards. I have been afraid to chop anything on them so far. They're closer to a work of craftsmanship or art and they are chopping board. I'm sure my sentiment will mellow a little in the coming weeks and I'll actually start using them for their purpose. But they're beautiful. They're lovely to even have in the coffee table because for a great conversation starter. If you're looking for a gift present for an upcoming event, they're the perfect way to show you actually care a little bit and you didn't just go and boy gift vouchers for that person or the Christmas present or the birthday present. So go check them barely for mention Christmas presents, isn't it? I'm on the lines now. As soon as the evening circuit and a bit shorter I'm thinking about Christmas. Go and check them out. The link is in the The show notes, it's missingpeace.ie, they are top lads and they are top craftsmen. But today we had craftsmen of another sort, absolutely dominating the Vuelta aspania stage, we had Primo Roglich. Average in a time of 46km in the hour, on the course today, on a rolling course today, The man was head and shoulders above not just his GC rivals but everyone else. For a long time we had Patrick Bevin of CCC in the Hotseats and Irish fans. That would be a name for Miller because he's a rudder who rode the Ross a couple of years ago and captured a stage in the Ross a few years ago. So he was second at 25 seconds and Kavagna was toured as 27 seconds. So Bo put up respectable displays but when you look at the demolition which Roglich imposed on his, I don't know why I had such trouble with that name, it's almost like the guy is under Poggaker, like has anyone been listening to that in Eurosport? It's getting completely bizarre. Every single one of them for the last two stages have had a completely different pronunciation of Pagukar. Pidnucci, Paguchi, Pachuchi, it's not. I'm sticking with Pagukar and pronouncing it finetically until I've heard Urrois from the main man, the youngest man in the race, who today don't eroid. He was forced to read the intermediate checkpoint. I'll get into that in a second and let's just know how the GC is standing. But, Quintana, I went into the stage wearing the red jersey and he lost over three minutes today. Three minutes, you know how hard he worked the other day on the epic stage, the queen stage to get those 12 seconds, something like that and to get loose three minutes. Three minutes and seven I think he lost today. Horrific day for the Colombian climber from movie star. Not a really iconic shot that I enjoyed from today was Roglic, Catching Lopez. I couldn't both tink back to, you know, in my head nearly the the whole Armstrong Dope and Tink. I don't know. I just don't know. It's like it's of a disassociative state between Dope and a Fence, the band, and taking the Tour de France off, and my enjoyment of watching those races back in the day. It was seven tours that were great to watch in parts, but one of the real iconic shots from the era was Armstrong, catching Ulrich, Armstrong, I can still see it clear as day, in the discovery kit with the Blue's Euro, Advanced Time Trial Helmandon, and a real iconic shot of Armstrong, the leg space, the leanness passing kind of as a change into the guard, kind of changing from the big Miguel Ingerin type grand tour writers to a new redesigned Armstrong slim down, parrot weight optimized and it was a real iconic image that symbolized up with likewise. Today I really enjoyed that image of Roglish catching Lopez who was his two-minute man and considering Lopez is one of the favorites for the race overall that's got to be a dagger blow into Lopez's heart getting caught by Roglish. What I did think was interesting was a lot of the GC guys said they were expecting to shift between a minute and 90 seconds to Roglich today. Like, that's a really low expectation. You can't be given away 60 to 90 seconds to one of your biggest rivals on a stage because it's just so hard to get back. It's not like Roglich is a bad climber. He dropped by very common into the finish to the day. Like he's one of the best climbers in the race and they're losing 90 seconds to him so it's bizarre. So we've ruggled at the top of the leaderboard now and we have Valverde at 152. Considering on into this stage we had less than 40 seconds separating the top 4 and then we have second place at 152.
Just wait for it, we've low-pizzed at 211
Just wait for it, we've low-pizzed at 211. We've Quintana at 3 minutes and we've Poggakar who's moved up and he's a trio of 5. So we've that top 5, there's a battle on. But I don't know, it's hard to see. There's a lot of boy-gracing left. There really is a lot of boy grace left. We have two kind of breakaway stages. They are a bit nuttin' common up, but there's a lot of high mountains left. Kontana showed glimpses of it in the tour, he showed glimpses of it on the force road stage proper in this year's Vuelta. He's a rider who can't take time, but Radcliffe just looks so good. His teammates, George Bennett is looking good, Coos is looking good. They're obviously gonna miss Steven Kreuzfick, but they're looking like a good team. Like, interest in will we see, you know, like a, as George Bush would say, a coalition, a coalition that are willing. Will we see a Quintana, a Contador, or a Stoyl Pact where they teamed up and gave a film of Ralxton back in the tour a few years ago? Will we see that and see a movie star, potentially Lopez Coalition, where they try and guess Roglich Oisillators? I find it difficult to imagine that's gonna happen. More like you were going to see the movie star, Shakenbake, which we've kind of seen a week, but the problem with the movie star, Shakenbake is you still have Lopez who's sitting toward overall. So if Cantana is the person going up the road, Lopez is going to be a Roglich teammate. Like Lopez doesn't want to, you gotta remember Lopez is still very young as well. Lopez Lopez is into white jersey, he's at two minutes and 12 seconds. He's not going to want to see Cantana leapfrog him on GC. So you do have all these dynamics starting to play out now people. Looking at podium positions and people looking at top boys because pogacarr in fifth You know it's a good result as well And you're gonna see him defend that against people who are six and sevens when they started attacking one thing It's for sure what a pogacarr now is on the map. He took some sneaky slowie time the other day On one of the stages from the break waves contesting away and pogacarr clipped off He didn't take huge time he took ten seconds or something in the finish But it was a soft ten seconds when the GC guys didn't respond and they kind of watched each other we won't see him being granted that level of leeway again like he's five seconds behind Cantana any move will be neutralized so it's a good thing for Pogakar he's got a status now and they're not he's respected he's respected by the by you know the powers but he's respected in the hierarchical top five now and he's a player at 22 he's he's one of the the guys who should be you you know, deem the threat to the overall, like if you're three minutes down, you know, you can win the race. Yeah. It's unlikely at this stage, but you can win the race for sure. And he's Slovenian time trial champion. Now Roggos didn't show up for the Slovenian time trial championships, but he has credentials against the clock. So it looks like we're going to see, we're seeing a future ground-to-all winner before it is not the power pressure on them. But UAE have also, you know, rewarded that with a very long contract already. So they see it in the lab as well. Poca Carver's in after the race. It was hard. I went for gas, I'm happy with the time, it's a dream to represent Slovenia, my country, wearing the National Championship jersey at the Vuelta. So pretty cool, he seems like a nice kid. Raghish is a bit more tight-lipped after the finish, he never got much out of him. He strikes me as a man who, if you were an interviewer, it wouldn't be the most enjoyable part of your job. He looks cool as he he'll combo our body, he doesn't like to press, he scaled the mountain to the day to avoid them. Like he gave away, you know, he hits us broadly, we can say the key message. Remember, we can just be real entertained in interviews and then the toy media training came in and they made him hit all these key messages and he just went to Sowbora. He's back to being super entertained again now, obviously. But Roggley's just definitely hitting these key messages. So he said, yeah, every time trial I try to go as fast as possible and I'm happy with my performance. So pretty understated and hard to read much into that. What was pretty cool, I noticed after the finish today was the Swan Yarra from MovieStar was on an electric scooter. That's an interesting little innovation. Pretty cool to see that because I get normally see the Swan he's busting their balls trying to run after riders at the finish with their kind of coke. And the likes, but that's saving them a wee bit of energy. had Alhamdral Valverde coming out after the stage and if I've already seems to be getting a bit sick and tired of the...
Journalists aren't very imaginative in the questions they're asking
The journalists aren't very imaginative in the questions they're asking. So it's no wonder Reuters get pissed off answering this just bunch of questions that are the same every time. So again asked about the leadership battle in movies there. Like it's plain as day, people don't watch so you can see it's a double-pronged attack and there's no one leader. Like Vavirde at 152 on Quintana 3 minutes. It had been insane decision from management to not play bulk hurts, but again asked at nauseam at this stage after stage about it. He said, neuro the team and me are going to be tired of these constant questions about who's the leader and who isn't one minute up or one minute down doesn't mean anything. We're both going to do the best possible for a movie star and that's the end of it all. It was always clear that Ruggish was top favorite and today he showed that personally I felt like I was going well but it's a long TT and a very demanding one so that's why I was feeling empty in the last part losing the time I did is what you could expect. I like Vavarite, Despoid et al and he finished off saying we'll see how things pan out but at least I've come through the TT unscathed. Guys I would encourage you to check out ClickFunnels. ClickFunnels is basically the reason I'm enjoying so much of Vuelta and able to bring you guys this daily show because ClickFunnels is sweet for like getting all my stuff like we're using various email other responders like AWeber and they're clunky to integrate with your web sites and this is my email, my website, my marketing, all integrated under one roof. It's a sweet little product. It's the best like all-in-one solution I've come across. I've been a customer there as long before there was a show sponsor and it was initially me who reached out to Dem to be a show sponsor. So yeah honored to get them on and it's a super kill product and they've hooked you up with a 14 day free trial. I'm sure if you do check it out even if you're starting a little soy hustle to make a few quid outside your 9 to 5 job this makes it possible like if you want to sell shit on eBay if you want a dropship this is the job for you check it out it's a 14 day free trial I'm gonna pop the link in the description down below. Tomorrow we're moving into Thomas the Ghent territory I I don't know why every time we have a breakaway stage we see him Thomas again. He's basically in every breakaway but with two breakaway stages coming up doesn't look like there's going to be much stress to rugs or much change in GC bearing accidents. So I'm I wouldn't say I'm looking forward to them. I do look forward to the mountains stages a little bit more but there you have it guys. It was nice to get the rest day and Back to you guys today, it's definitely, you know the fourth day back, or anyone that's a regular listener to the normal show, not Jordan of Welter, I'm a big fan of morning routines and create momentum. And I'm actually working on something like that at the moment. I'm trying to use an object because I have a mug that I use, and I use the mug as a catalyst to get me out trying. And it's like, it's a loop you can create to use something as a catalyst to inspire an action and then you build a reward into it. I'm gonna go into some depth in a future podcast about it, but it's really interesting so I'm gonna try and get my hands on some of the mugs I'm using. I don't know if we have any left, but I'm gonna try and get my hands on some of them and ship them out to you guys for another. But I'll keep you posted on that one of the world to finish us up. Last piece of business before we go on our merry way, our training camp is still available. I'm gonna pop the link down below. It's 9 to the 15th of November in Cambrails. if you want to break up the Irish winter, I love to stick something in the diary because it just keeps me motivated and inspired to try and and the month gets very short like November is probably the worst month for training in Ireland and it gets very short when you throw in a week camp because you've a week easy into it and you've a week easy after. So although it's only a week camp, you're nearly getting the benefit of skipping three weeks of shit weather for that. I'll pop the link to that down below. You are all beautiful cycling fans regardless of whether you're a soul listener out in Mongolia or you're the lad listening open bell maulis. Thanks for listening, appreciate each and every one of you guys and girls and I'll be back tomorrow to analyze our breakaway stage. Jatiran.