1.Hello and welcome you beautiful Cyclone fans

Hello and welcome you beautiful Cyclone fans. It's another A1 show podcast for the Vuelta aspania. Today was an absolutely cracking stage and Irish Ois are definitely smiling at the end today with Nicholas Roach pulling on the leaders Red Jersey. Lots to talk about but before I get started, woo hoo, we have our first ever show sponsor. So this is a funny one actually because it kind of came about serendipitously. The company It's called Missing Pieces and I'll tell you who they are before I give you the backstory. So they're an Irish personalized wood and craft based company. They're in Dunigal and it's actually it's a father and son business. So I was stumbling around online at Hoylego for a present for a wedding and it was one of these friends that has everything and I was trying to figure out what do you get the person who has everything. So I came across this thing called a family tree puzzle board. made an oak and it was super cool because it's a personalized puzzle. It's a jigsaw that pieces together in photo frames to sort of commemorate all life's big moments. So you basically have one for your family. So I'm kind of waiting for one of my friends to have a kid again and then it's the perfect start for it because you get the little photo of the kid and it's like a jigsaw and then you piece that together to maybe their communion piece that together to maybe a Miss Christendre, you piece that together to commune into the confirmation. They have kids and it builds into this cool jigsaw. That's amazing. And then I just serendipitously bumped into one of the co-founders, got chatting about Seidlen, he's an avid cyclist and it turns out he listens to the podcast. So long story short, he's on board now as the show sponsor for the Vuelta España. So thank you very much for missing pieces. So I would encourage everyone to go over to missing pieces and checked it out. That family tree storyboard is class. I think it's called the family tree puzzle board. So go check that out. But also what they have, which is really cool. They've customizable personalized like cutting boards, cheese boards, luxury coasters, about even get one with the A1 show custom curved into it. Who knows who knows? Who knows? Fingers crossed and they have a 25% say I'll go on at the moment. So go and check them out on missing pieces. So there you go. I didn't even have the Shalei one in lieu of a show sponsor today. Thanks very much for missing pieces for us and it's a historic day for our cycling because Nicholas Roach has pulled on the leaders jersey for a second time in his career. Like where to unwrap this one? Like I said yesterday the Vuelta starts in earnest. Once it gets started, it starts. It's not like the Tour de France where we have to wait a week for a bit of drama. They hit that hill today. I've been up at a bunch of times and I said to you guys it was hard. People were talking about a bunch sprint. I was like, no way that's going to be a bunch sprint. It kicks up to 16, 17% at times. I taught someone like James Knox, Mois Dewert, because they were second in the TTT yesterday. I taught him how to pull it off and go for the jersey today. But it turned out to be a full on bomb, full gas, GC battle on the very first hill on the Vuelta aspania. And it was incredible TV. What I noticed that the outset of World is it's just it's a way more chilled out race you can see it in the Reuters even around signing on there how they interact with the media everyone's just more chilled out in the art of the tour people are just a little bit guarded at the tour so that was evident joy from the start and then Yumbovisma really started they went to Florida was a little group up the road but Yumbovisma set out the stall early in my view because they obviously know Roglage is on a good run. Kreuzwig wasn't but we'll talk about that in a bit. Yumbov is put on the pressure coming into the intermediate sprint which was just before the major climb of the day with 25k to go and the hepta heat kind of up. Sam Bennett was dropped and they were running into the climb. He looked like he was suffering a little bit from heat exhaustion or something like that but who knows? You know Bennett's he's an old half this stage now and he knows if he's not going to win. Just sit like there's no there's no point in a battle and for a second group on the road like It was he was not gonna win over that climb There was not a small group or a big group commented line and Bennett needed a big group a small group You know if you're like say she'll burn stuff are gonna be fast out I'm gonna get over the climb well Bennett was never gonna get over the climb with all sorts of guys On the climb who was strongest the climb was a wall on the climb who was strongest With Hugh Kertie.

2.Predict him yesterday that he was gonna ride well Hugh Carter he took…

I predict him yesterday that he was gonna ride well Hugh Carter he took it up early done a lot of the riding by Verde was super strong but then really the three strong guys emerged as former low Pierre Latoro good to see him in riding well for asjiduzir and George Bennus from Yumbo Vizma. The three of them really looked like they were strongest and they were forming the split by Verde brought another you know what I'd say seven eight guys across with him he was super strong in the end he proved to be the strongest over the top, taking the KOM points and that was, I think that client top dealt with around 23K to go and with around 20K to go, roji or boil, Nicholas Roach, Sunweb, hit out for home and very select group. This wasn't a group that rolled off the front. Roach is a good boy cracer when the race gets tough, Roach typically rolls up the sleeves and he gets stuck in well but this wasn't a group that rolled off easy. This was a group that went at the hardest point in the race. You know what went at the hardest point of the race? Because of who's in it. The group is made up of Roglich Arru. If you can't see me here because I'm not doing a video, I'll pat myself on the back. Arru hasn't been at it for two years. Who called him yesterday? Who said Arru was going to be motivated for this one who said aero was one to watch there he is forced a he's in the tick of it there's not more dangerous than a man with a chip on his sleeve and if you look at the runny and aero's head to this race he's definitely a man who's coming here in condition so it was Roger Lick aero Roach Quintana Nivey Rigoberto Iran like it's a serious crew but who is missing in that it's Superman Lopez yesterday we were talking about how Lopez blows hot and cold and he certainly did blow cold. You just never know what you're going to get from Lopez. I think he had Omar Froily over the top of the climb with him. Jakko Fugostang after crashing out with the tour of the France with the concussion. He didn't make the front group very surprisingly for me. He's one who stellar early season for him and winning the classic obviously. The Lières Juan, I think it was stellar early season for him and I would have thought that was a climb that sealed it. But He just didn't have it, left Lopez isolated. You know, one step numbers got up the road, like, you know, you look, say you have Cantana up the road, so then you have Valverde sitting behind following the wheels. Valverde is not going to contribute and help bring a group back across to his teammate, Cantana. Uh, likewise, you've got like Hugh Cardi in the group, Buddy's Rigobert over and up the road. Uh, you have, uh, George Bennett in the group, but he has his team later, Roglich up the road. Like, the group behind had no cohesion and they honed at 14 seconds for a while and you got the feeling that if they didn't get them inside the Force Cup L'Acay that they weren't going to get them, that it wasn't going to happen. And then the elastic broke, then it went to 18, then it went to 19 and once Lopez started roiding, sure everybody just leaned on him. So, Lopez definitely the big loser. I'm surprised that Stan and let them get themselves get so isolated because yesterday they obviously wanted a hit the ground run on this. put a big effort in that team time draw and then they're after losing the time today. So yeah, disappointing shown from them. Another disappointing shown was Teal Gagan Hart. We spoke yesterday about Teal, how these chances are the team like any else. They don't come along very often. We've a stacked roster, we've carapassed there for next season, we've obviously from Bernal, like Cote de Toro win usher in another 10 years of dominance for someone like Bernal. We've obviously filmed there as well. Stacked roster and you have a young English lad from London like T.O. Gagan Hart and you've given the chance to be team principal for a grand tour. The big Reuters got a digrasp, they really grasp it. T.O. didn't step up to the plate today, it's disappointing. I was looking forward to seeing him. It's so early into the race. He's freshness, he got around yesterday and the team's hand drop unscathed. It's a perfect stage for him. It's not like, you know you can make your excuses about the azurellate l'athalia when he's cutting the crosswinds but it's it's a climb it's what he does and he's not there so very disappointing. Also we had Stephen Kreuswick he's suffering super early on the climb and yeah again disappointing we heard him in interview yesterday before the start of the stage and Kreuswick was talking about how you know we've come into this informed dual principle between him and Roglage so it looks like that's been sorted out already but gone on today's display Christ makes not even capable of helping Roglic later on, but it's a three-week race, so we shouldn't make judgments in haste.

3.Lopez, Gagan Hart, those sort of guys, when a group goes with Dafour,…

But, like Lopez, Gagan Hart, those sort of guys, when a group goes with Dafour, Haru, Kintan and Yavey, Roglic, Roach, like Iran, you gotta go, like, you gotta go. It's not a... Oh wait, and see how this one pans out, you gotta go, the biggest players in the race are after making a move, and Roach just put a stamp on this. Like Rocha's had a disappointing season. He's been sifting of Vuelta before. He's obviously wore the red here before. I heard him interviewed after race, and he said last time he made a prediction that he'd last three or four days in red, and he only lasted one. So he was unwilling to make a prediction on this. But he has been in red before. He's been fifth on GC in Vuelta before. He used to be a good GC rider before. He started turning to a stage hunter, and then I started calling it a couple of difficult seasons. He's had a particularly mixed season this year, and when I say mixed mostly, bad, the crash where he's stuck it up in the Alps, but Roach is a man who likes to race a lot. Like this is his third-grand tour of the season. And if you think about it, this is Roach's tent Vuelta aspagnan, it's a 20 second grand tour in total. So I still kind of think of Roach as a young lad, but he's definitely an experienced campaigner at this stage. And he's a guy that goes well with a big race and volume. Like you can see, doing three grand tours and then arriving in August in the Vuelta with the heat today and pulling out performance like that you just have to love race near bike and Roch just loads those days back to back to back to back I think Roch is gonna get better and better as this race going on. Can he do? Look, I'm not gonna sit here and say Roch is gonna hold the jersey all the way for the next three weeks. He's not but Can Roch pull off? five, ten days, didn't it? He's a good climber. He'd be hard to displace. I think he'd be there for longer than a lot of people think. We heard him after race and he was talking about just to where the leaders jersey he said again at Grand Tour. I'm absolutely speechless and then he ran through his talk process coming in the road. The roads in the Calpe, like the roads I've ridden the lot and roads I was talking about as well. They based themselves out there. A lot of pro cycling names seem to base themselves. I think it's Hotel Diamontae, a lot of them stay around in Calpe, lovely spot for cycling if you get out there but honest there's not a lot to do it's a real spot to go for if you're a pro cyclist. You go there and the town is pretty shit. It's real chavitown and not much fucking going on around there. The cycling is beautiful but it hasn't got any of the big climbs. It wouldn't be my favorite part of the world to go cycling. Now it is beautiful but But it's just not the deal when you get off the bike. And if you're not a full time, well, not even if you're a full time booger. If you're not a pro who's forced to stay in the hotel, you wanna get out and have a dinner in the evening in a nice restaurant or you wanna have a walk around. There's one poxy cafe on the sea from the weekend. They're going to over and over again, tango bar or something, and it goes cold. And they're going to that poxy place over and over again. Boy, I wrote, said he spends about five weeks out there each year. So he said he knew that climbing, so he had to ride on the way back to the hotel every single day. So he definitely had Ricky Dachloin very, very well. But coming in the role, it's quite lumpy. It's rolly all the way in, and then it gets quite technical as you get in. But Rauch said he was just thinking about the stage, not GC at that point, that he was thinking of he focused on the stage, the GC at look after itself. So even we're talking about the late and the season thing, he conceded that he said even when he's a kid, he's always been going well in August, which is mental, but I suppose it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy if you think you go well in August you're trying to click your nutrition, click your mentality, clicks and everything seems to start lining up for you around August. So the lawyers did the same and for an Irish lad he handles the heat very well, he spoke about how he relishes that heat and a lot of people kind of cope with it and our roachies brought up partially between Ireland and France and at one point he had declared for France but switched his nationality back and so it's probably the French side of it that's tolerating that he's rather newer side.

4.Quintana, who rolled off Quintana

Quintana, who rolled off Quintana? Don't listen to yesterday's podcast. Yeah, I did question Quintana's motivation coming into this race. You know, he won a stage in the tour. He's won this race before, but I just didn't see it. I just didn't see it from Quintana coming into this race. He looks super good. He looks super strong. Like Quintana sold on away from a group like that with the horse power like rugby behind and Iran behind. on away we haven't seen that in a long time so if you're still not on stage just don't suit them but I mean the final of today's stage like the last 6 7k wasn't Quintana terrain if you're still not what are you gonna do and we hit the whole amount so yeah it's it's interesting it's really interesting Quintana log glitch like anyone that's in that front group you gotta think they're in good form uh the guys behind a little bit of ground to make up So interesting and exciting. I hope some of you guys had the chance to go and check out our training camp page. We launched a training camp on yesterday's podcast. It's going to be epic. Had a few people in court already. A couple of sniffs around, so I'm sure it'll fill up no bother. It's a small camp. I think we're going to limit it around 10-12 people. It's nice. Two groups, one sort of medium speed group and one slower group. It's basically available or it's basically a suitable for all levels because at that time of year even the good lads are riding super slow and steady endurance miles. So that shouldn't be a problem if you're comfortable riding your bike for three hours in the Unsporteeves and stuff like that. You should have no water at all on the camp. It's six days, it's in Cambria's, we fly into Barcelona, picked up the airport, advanced to bring our bikes there. Combinations looked after, breakfast looked after, dinners looked after. We're gonna ride through lunch, she'll give you food, fill your pockets with. Careful on us each day, pulling out a table at the top of the clients with drinks and food, cultures in each group, it's class, it's epic. It's a full pro experience for not being a pro. It's a lovely, I love putting something in the diary and I'm sticking that in the diary and I hope you are too from the ninth to the 15th of November. So hopefully you can make it. Guys, it has been a pleasure to do this podcast. Nicholas Roach, X Irish National Champion, X-Welter race winner and he's pulling on that red Gansy again which it's a brilliant day and then tomorrow we have a sprint stage, stage three, looks like a sprint stage, so on where they're definitely going to roy tomorrow to protect this, they've had a shit season, Dumelands are on the move, they've had publicity for all the wrong reasons, they're going to want to control it, they're are going to want to keep Nico in race, who's saying Bennett's not going to pull it off and make it Irish back to back success. Thanks for tuning in. Make sure you go and check out the link down below for our training camp. And also again, thanks to our show sponsor, our first ever show sponsor. I feel like a kid of Christmas so excited. Missing pieces.au link is in the description down below on the show notes. Thanks very much for tuning in guys and spread the news. It's a delta, it's a well, that daily podcast. Thanks for listening.