Hello you absolutely beautiful cycling fans and welcome back
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.
It's a two horse race for the roadman award because I did like them…
It's a two horse race for the roadman award because I did like them shopping boards for Carlton Caribbean Sean Kelly, like the lads don't have a proper job when the pictures went down, like they had to commentate on a puddle. Did you ever hear two lads entertaining an audience of millions around the world for half an hour talking about a puddle? But the lads don't it, they don't really well and they kept that tension, they kept the suspense and they actually added to the mystique and the magic and the romance of today's stage. It was brilliant piece of professionalism from the two lads in the commentary. That was a huge winner. Another huge winner was the stage organizers because the short stages are a treat. They're an absolute... I even have this debate in Ireland sometimes. You hear one Reuters and I'm sure it's every country around the world and now if you're looking off the race and a few different countries around the world it's the exact same thing. People aren't in the races often. Oh the races aren't long enough. The race length isn't, is rarely a determinant. Like if you look at cut one races in Ireland, the brake goes after about 4k then six lads are really true and off for the next whatever 100k and then the selection happens. If you're in that brake and you're one of them six lads it is born. Add in 20k or taking away 30k rarely changes the results. The stages like today, it's just, it's try to rubock out the window there. Anything could happen. A break went up the road that I massive was half the bunch. It was more like the GC lads were out the back. They called it a break which I may as I call it the bunch up the road. They defined the bunch boy where the leaders cheers. So that's why it was the bunch. but I think it was more lads up the road than there was in the bunch at one stage. It was epic. Now the only drawback on these epic stages as we've seen in the Sword of France is today we lost pitchers. The lads done a great job in pulling it together and keeping our attention both in the tour. We've seen them trying to go to them crazy high altitudes and the race got neutralized and it's boiling for everyone. So it's a very thin line between bringing you spectacular stage and entertainment and this epic road like with the gravel road today and just putting the roaders in danger and having no TV coverage. The weather it pissed trying today. The weather was terrible so they lost TV coverage and it caused a couple of crashes so yeah it's been a very crash-laden of Vuelta so hopefully everyone's all right used to crash today and that's crashed all sort of Vuelta but big big fan of those short stages. As I said a big break went up the road today. I'm not gonna name he was in it because it was nearly easier to name who wasn't in it. The GCU's weren't in it and obviously the sprinters weren't in it. Everyone else seemed to be up there. There were some strategic placements of Reuters in the break but the GCU is. Astana put a bunch of guys in the break. Fugal signed on Noble Work. Later on he's honorable mentioned. Sept Kous was up there. George Bennett was up there for Primus Roglich. So very tactical in the lads that were going into the break. Movies that are interestingly I think they only had to put Mark Salera up there and I get onto that because that's a big talk and point. They put Mark Salera up there and I think that was about it. They didn't have the break as stacked as some of the other teams. The stage finished with a Katu Katu Katu 1 and I think in Ora's category before that as they called them in Spain, a special category. He had Chavez puncturing, which was a nice bit of entertainment because he got a spare boy off the tallest rider on the team and Chavez, the smoliest man in Saiklan, wasn't smiling that much when he could barely reach the pedals. I think he went through three boy changes today and he had a noble chase back in but as you can imagine he was chasing as a movie star and a star and a tok it up. He got back in a tough day for the lads with that chase but he was still smiling after. Although, Yorasport chose to miss his post-race interview because there was some colorful language and We're all very sensitive on the main airwaves and we can't say things like fuck So everyone gets very offended so they had to code it because Chavez the smoliest mom in soi can Express themselves in a way that any adult would express himself after a stage where it's just rain and he's had three boy changes But they chose not to let us see that interestingly English, movie star were epic today, they were absolutely epic.
They took it up hard, very hard, dropping most of the bunch and then…
They took it up hard, very hard, dropping most of the bunch and then when the real attacking started it was Lopez who went. Lopez went, Cantana countered, Lopez went again, nobody had legs to match Superman. He had a couple of teammates scattered around the road, I think he had Omar Broily and then he had the backup google sign and he was tearing the race to pieces and then we went dark and Roglish looked isolated, Sept-cous had just gone back to Roglish and movie star were given the all shaking bake to Roglish, Cantana would go, Vadver, they'd go, the double header and Roglish looked in a spot of trouble and Lopez looked like he was sailing clear and then we went dark as we were hitting the gravel section. And there's still a bit of confusion as to what happened when we went dark. What we do know is, Lope has hit the deck because he came out the other side of our TV outage with cuts on him and back in the group behind just after being caught by Vovar Day and Quintana and then we had Roglic, apparently dropped from that group. We later found out that Roglish indeed crashed and we had Roglish interestingly after the stage chose to not speak to reporters. These scurried up the side of like a cliff and then into one of them little ski carrots and got a cable car down the mountain back to his team bus. He wasn't interested in talking but we heard the team director for Lotto and he came out and said it wasn't possible to hear anything on the radio. We couldn't even talk that much in the car. I I understand there was a small crash for Primos because motorbikes were blocking the way, but I don't know in the end I think we look at the results in the finish and we got through the day very well So Roglic definitely went down. It looks like a TV motorbikes stalled in front of him and he got gapped from Quintana Vavard a pogacar Interestingly who was pronounced like I was curling her, but he was calling them like Pachuchi or Pinocchio or something for the day, bizarre He corrected himself and then proceeded to call him the wrong name another 15 times Poggaker is not that confused in the award. He's one of the best writers in the world So yeah, I know I'm commending the boys at the top of the podcast here and I'm abusing them at the back butcher That's the way we roll on here. The gravel section was a nice little addition, although we missed it all So Lopez was down Roglic was down to over top four or down We Poggaker and Quintana set and sale and And so this is after it settled. Pogakar, Katana, set and sail, trying to get across to Mark Saler, former Tour Lavaneer winner. And looks like Saler is going to take the stage and then he gets the call to wait for Katana. He choses Rattle out of the pram. He doesn't think it's the right call and he makes everyone aware that he doesn't think it's the right call. Like, he's a professional boy, Croydar. I understand that he's disappointed. It probably wasn't the best way to express his disappointment. Cantanas after going into the race leaders jersey, so they were well entitled to ask Salaire to wait and pull for Cantana. He's gone into the race leaders jersey with a narrow marriage, and so without Salaire he wouldn't have went into the race leaders jersey. So he's well entitled to try to rattle out of the brand, but I think he should have privately. Emotions sometimes boil over. We've seen Lopez who can your man around in the gero and it wasn't nice to see but it happens. I think Celaire probably should have just bit his tongue and expressed it in private in the team meeting later on. It would have been the professional thing to do but it was a tough day so we won't hold it against the young lad. Before I go any further on this podcast I'm going to do honorable mention to our other show sponsor which are click funnels and click funnels have been legendary for me in A1 coach and click funnels are the reason that I'm able to launch this podcast. They have freed up so much time for me. It's the reason I can get out trying in the morning. It's the reason I get time now to spend a good chunk of my day researching all these crazy bio hacks and you know we're looking heavy on bio hacks for the common months probably starting around October looking at mad things like photo, boy, homodulation, grounding, structured water, a bunch of stuff like this. But the research is heavy, spending big chunks of the day on PubMed.
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I'm sure it was more of well to organizers thing
I'm sure it was more of well to organizers thing. Maybe it was the designated area was floated from the heavy rain. I don't know. And I would check out on door if you haven't been so eutland yet. Actually only looking at it again. I was over there. But I was over there a lot of love. Maybe less than a year ago. Loved it. Went out checking it out for a training camp. I don't know if I'm going to go with a training camp there. The problem with it is the accessibility. You're looking at 200k from Barcelona airport around I think you could find it to lose maybe the end it's around 200k from there but you're looking at you know 3.5 hour drive because it's not a straight road it's not motorway it's twisty terrain a lot of towns or you're looking around a fiver or train it's a lot flying from you know I'm based in Dublin so it's a lot flying bar set and then over there like you nearly get to America or Canada just as fast but it's amazing beautiful place tax-free haven as well over anyone looking to go and scow you off Dan Martin's new home. Beautiful place to go but we are sticking for this training camp with Cambrails so if anyone hasn't signed up yet I'm gonna pop the link in the show notes. We're six days out there from the 9th of November. That's gonna be a full pro experience. It's gonna be pretty cool with follow cars, amazing scenery and climbs, cool little resort we're staying in Cambrails Park Resort. Full pro experience but very chilled out vibe so I'm looking forward to that. We have people coming through the a one eight week challenge step about to lock that off so it's probably your last chance if you're hearing this podcast a Monday to get in on that and what else have we got going on yeah I think that's all I really wanted to show to you guys we have a rest day tomorrow I've made a stream nine days back to back on the podcast last night to bring you guys the podcast just so you know podcast life and the level of dedication that it takes to bring this podcast or the level of mentalness that it takes. I had dinner plans with friends last night so I had to drive in and have my laptop and a hotspot of my iPad in the car and the podcast still had an upload about the time I got to the restaurant so I had to hide the laptop along with the iPad to hotspot it under a bunch of coats in the back seat of the car on Baguette Street in Dublin to upload the podcast. So there you go. The things you don't see behind the scenes, we've arrested a tomorrow and I am looking forward to taking the day off the podcast. Now that I don't love chatting so I can see you guys and girls but it'd be nice to take a day off the routine of there's a bit of a production in goes into getting it done, watching the stage, getting it uploaded, graphics, all that like. So that's why I do appreciate the show sponsors clicking their link support and that really makes a big difference to me. We have stage 10 after that when we come back on Tuesday. That's only a 36 kilometer one. It'd be a rest day for a lot of the boys like Sam Benden the fast men. 36k in Po, we're heading into France. It's a rolly course but it still favors the TT specialist. Expect to see Premus Roglet taking the Red Jersey after that stage. Guys, it's been an epic nine stages. It's been crushes. It's been entertainment. It's for very evenly matched roiders. It's been amazing parkour and it's been a treat to bring it to you guys. So thanks for listening, thanks for supporting, keep sharing around, spread the love and as I say we're gonna build this into a little self-sustaining ecosystem. So I do appreciate you guys being part of our little tribe and our cult and spreading it around and a big shout out to our man in Mongolia, still getting the downloads racking them up. Thanks for listening folks and I will be back on Tuesday for TT stage. Chatty old then. ... ... ... ...