Hello you absolutely beautiful cycling fans and welcome back. It's the Vuelta Aspania, it's stage 9, it's the Queen's stage and it's why I'm doing these podcasts. Epic, epic stage results, weather, top riders been dropped, crashes it had it all, TV, outages, unbelievable stuff. I'm going to dive right in and before I do, let's just a quick word to show sponsor, missing piece. Missing piece, I've been with us all through the Vuelta as the show sponsor, and they just dropped off what I can only describe as two sensational chopping boards. I've been talking about them all week, I had heard of the quality I'd seen the pictures, but I got two hand embroidered hand-curved chop boards, and they're phenomenal. Solid chop boards, I've got the A1 coaching logo, curved into it, carved A1 coach on a little road with the boy G emblem. It's a work of art. It's truly spectacular. I got one of them and I spend a lot of time down in CanSail as any of you guys who are regular show listeners will know and I got another beautiful one with the old head of CanSail and the old head carved into the oak chop board. So it's absolutely stunning. I have to say speechless and I haven't even dropped the guys a message to say thank you. Yes, I'm just jumped on air as I got them. So yeah an absolute massive thank you to The boys up in Tony golf or just the level of detail and you know the tartfulness in Dropping off a gift like that. It's it's phenomenal So I definitely encourage you guys to go and check that out if you've any I know I've already have a bunch of birthdays and Order events coming up and I'm already airmark and these chopboards are going to be my new little signature item because it's sometimes it's so hard for especially somebody you kind of you know we joke once you get the girl who has it all or the guy that has it all this is kind of what you get them because it's something that kind of shows you care there's a lot of talk goes into as well if your personal eyes and the message and the little picture they're carving into it it really taught for heartfelt present that I know I felt a little bit of warm to get in today so there you go So today, stage nine, it's days like this are, you know, the old cliché of do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life. For me, sitting down to record this podcast now could not feel less like work. I've been scoffing dinner and I've been scording around to get here in this seat and this microphone and talk about what happened today. Because it's like, it's my place to vent. That's where I, you know, the lads that are still in the football, the mates, they me down the pub and they chat about football. It does not have the same pub, cycling culture around. I wish there was. So there's two places I really found it. This podcast, and it's the A1CC Roy, and that's the A1CC Roy, it's only once a week on Saturday mornings. And that's cool because it gives us that, you know, the wolf pack. We talk a bit about blues-ons on here. And one of the blues-ons of the areas, if you haven't heard me rapping on about them for us, the areas in the world where the highest concentration of centurions, people that live We've passed a hundred our congregates, so we're looking at Okinawa and Japan and Sardinia and a couple other places scattered around like that. One of the common traits in that, you know, they look at the big data for a cause of a live longer and one of the common traits is that sense of community, of kinship, of a wolf pack, someone in a together. So you just can't get that on your, you know, with sitting on the tour about trying to order a walk by your house yourself. You need to get out sometimes with the lads. And that's what the A1CC writes about. That's why I love it. So yeah, like sitting down here now to talk about this race today. It's just, it's what the podcast is all about for me. So I'm going to stop rabbit and I'm going to actually start talking about what happened because it was epic. Or at least I believe it was epic because we had no pictures for half the race. I kind of added to the tension and honestly a big shout out today. I'm going to give the Roadman Award today to Sean Kelly and Carleton Kirby. I know it's an early call, I know what you're thinking, it's an early call to be given the roadman award out all you've done to announce the show sponsor.