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NOT A CONVENTIONAL SPRINT

15:57·7 September 2019

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After a few gruelling days in the mountains the sprinters were not to be denied today.

Bunch sprints frequently spell danger and today was no different with a huge pile up 900 meters from the finish.

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Beautiful cycling fans, it's stage 14 of our Vuelta A1 podcast

Oh you beautiful cycling fans, it's stage 14 of our Vuelta A1 podcast. Let's talk about the fastest man in the world, let's talk about the caric native. Let's get into it. Before we start, quick mention to our show sponsor. Our show sponsor is Missing Piece. Missing Piece are run an amazing contest and you can win some sweet missing piece swag, which anyone who's seen my Instagram post from today or yesterday or Instagram story should I say, we'll have seen our custom A1 chopping board, which is, you know, obviously not an A1 version of skill to me, maybe not cool to you, but getting a chopping board or something like that's really cool gift for somebody. But they're running a competition at the moment and I'm going to pop the link in down below. But it's missing piece.oy for slash of Vuelta, hyphen 2019. And you need to answer what is the leaders jersey color in the Vuelta and your chance to win some swag off them. Really, really give you that bit of kudos around the dinner party. Right, let's talk, let's talk so inland. It was epic. That's why catch raised moment. It was epic. It's been like 21, well not 21, we're 14 days in, it's been like 14 one day races. We haven't had the neutral non-exciting races yet, which has made this podcast a delight to do. There was a cat tree climb 22 kilometres in the finish today and we'd break up the road. That's really where the action started. We had Dilier, Pibernik, we'd poochio from Inny Oaks and who was the Lotto lad, was it Van Hook from Lotto? And anyway, they didn't get much rope to play with. It was apparently a very easy day in the the bunch today, I heard a lot of the guys talking about, we had Mitchell Ducker from EF Education talking after the stage about how it was quite an easy stage, the easiest one so far. But that brings its own tension and brings its own nerves and we had a gap up vugel thing launching a very strange attack over that climb with 22k to go with a break, still up the road. No idea what that was about, if you stretch his legs or he's a bit of attention deficit disorder, you wouldn't know what's going on but it was a bizarre move and one of the border, I was just marked it out and said if you're going anywhere, I'm going to be an anchor with you. But yeah, the real action start, one quick step, took it up under the center, took it up about 20k to go for Yacobson. And yeah, they started really splitting it, like the bunch has to hard legs. Like I can tell you, I have a few to hard legs, myself, now recording this podcast after the A1CC spin this morning. Good little crowd at the A1CC spin. It's far meant to be a nice little bit of a group, we're going to Keep that on roll on every Saturday at 9.30am in the food room in Clontarth. What have we done today? About 75k, noise organized, no drop, noise. I've been talking about the death of the group, right a lot. So I'm trying to use this instead of being an armchair critic using that A1 right to show good practices, no half wheeling, no people getting dropped, no egos, practically ego at home. So now it's been very enjoyable, all shapes and sizes. lads who are used to riding in the brake in the world, still lads who are used to riding the 50k local sporty, if it had all shapes and sizes out, very very enjoyable now. Anyway, I do have a very, as I often do, quick step. They took it up with 20k to go hammer time and they're just such beasts in their sweet looking vermak kit. I was just so jealous. I used to wear vermak kit a couple of years ago when they sponsored Aqua Blue and it was a lovely So I'm just yawning for a bit of ever since so it made me just love that blue quick step Train even more as they were hammering down the scent off that cat tree climb and they were ripping the bunch to shreds Because there's a few tired legs there What actually can be quite difficult as well Because it was an easy day and that polarization of very easy to very hard can be very difficult You know, that's why we're doing a warm-up We go through it quite structure it's own one bit of time zone two a bit of time zone 3, a bit of time all the way up through the zones going from zone 1 to 4 gas, very difficult.

That's what happened today and you see entire legs and what happens…

And that's what happened today and you see entire legs and what happens with torrid legs if they make mistakes and they leave splits. There were splits all over the bunch gaps forming coming back together and then with 900 meters to go as the old Batman and Robin cartoons would say we had the big comical speech bubble popping up that said boom bang, crash, wallop, wamo and down went half the bunch. Among the victims of honorable notes we had World Champion Valverde, we had our Red Jersey, Primus Roglage, we had the new Princess Euchlin pogacar all down in the crash. Now it was inside the last three kilometers, anyone who's not an avid GC anoract like myself, might not know that there's an imaginary finish line drawn at three kilometers. so any accidents that happen inside tree kilometers you're credited with the time of the group that you were in. So the group that you were in and the group that the boys were in at the time of the accident was the main bunch so there would be no change in GC as a result of that crash which is great news for the guys but people take that to me and that you still don't hurt that oh it's fine it's inside the last tree k well it's not really if you break your arm inside the last tree k It's not just magically grand the next day. So a few lads had big get downs. It looks like the GC guys escaped But we did have some guys like as we call them in the biz get down stay down we had Who was it it was Luke? What's the last name from oracle Scott look at main mangees? He looked very bad. He was stretched off in an absolute hoop But anyway, the sprint continued in earnest and Sam Bennett. The team did a great job keeping it fast, keeping them up front. It was a difficult, difficult uphill finish and Rakezi had lost. Jakob Simbot, Rakezi launched to go after one of the Lotto boys. It was Vander Sands. He went after him because he came at speed from behind Rakezi opened up and basically lead Bennett out and Bennett just made it look so so easy sprinting in the hoods and yeah he wasn't actually sure that he won or not so Bennett he's a gas man he said the team put me in a fantastic place in the final we slowed down and a lot came past me with a lot of speed I was afraid to celebrate as I didn't know if the break was caught or not so yeah it just shows you and the hoylite hell chaotic it it was if Bennett wasn't even sure if the break caught. He also said he's now reached this target for the season in terms of wins. And that's Torthain wins, he's has this season and it's also his second Vuelta stage and he throw down on top of three, Jiro stage, I think it was, four of grand tour stages in the Torthain win season. Very, very hard to argue, the Bennett isn't the on-farm sprinter in the world at the moment. But a great lesson I think there for a lot of kids You know anyone racing today from Bennett. He wasn't sure if this a breakup they're old. Did he hesitate? No, you sprint for the line when you see that line you sprint regardless you figure it out after the race That's what Bennett on it's a lesson. I'm sure he was drilled into him from the Martyn or Lachlan's coach as a kid and I mean Sam had the same coach for a number of years and Martin is very good at those sort of lessons A little catchphrase like head of a accident's down, you know like that touch your class Anyway, we shall sponsor again for the Vuelta and it is ClickFunnels. ClickFunnels have some amazing amazing tools to just make your life easier and get you back out on the bike instead of stuck running email campaigns and marketing campaigns. One of the books that is written by the author Russell Brunson has been particularly good for me. It's .com secrets. secrets. I'm gonna pop a link to .com secrets down below and it's an amazing book. I mean you get that. It's also a 14-day free trial on ClickFunnels. So the link for that is down below.

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Other than that, yeah, I really enjoyed today's stage

Other than that, yeah, I really enjoyed today's stage. We're back into the Hills tomorrow, where stage 15 takes us over four category one climbs with a 7.9 kilometer climb at 9% to the finish, which sounds particularly difficult, but a campy as hard as yesterday's line where the Slovenian National Cyclocross Champion and National Time Trial Champion, soloed to victory, well, soloed by virtue of a gift from his countryman, Roglich, the two who came in, basically hand in hand. Working on the Cyclocross plan, and I'll couple of you guys' message me on we're doing a six week Cyclocross plan, get you started in the cycle across season but also have video course. I'm working hard on it guys, it's rough going but the daily podcast, the cycle across plan. I've also had this cool idea I wanted to do and I don't know how soon I'm going to do it but I'm going to try. So the idea is I'll dive into just one deeper in a full podcast. It's about how we form habits and habit forming loops. So we have a catalyst to the habit, we have the act and then we have the reward, it's tree phases to a habit. So a catalyst for me is every time I'm going out for a ride I have a cup of coffee before I go but the coffee's not the catalyst the mug is the catalyst. So I've this mug that I use the same mug all the time. It's a roadman mug because I think roadman I think it's a cool idea to be a roadman and this I built a cool little definition around out which I'll show up to you guys in the podcast after we finish out the Vuelta. So I drink the coffee out of this roadman mug, that's the catalyst, which means I'm gonna go training, I go training and then I get the reward, which for me I make this cool lovely kind of lion-bury recovery drink, which is sweet and that's a habit-forming loop. So very soon you can take out the reward and it's like the Pavlov association between ringing the bell, salivation and the dog Eden. Very soon you didn't even need to give the dog food, he just starts salivating at the sound of a bell. This is very, very similar where all of a sudden when we see the mug, we drink out of the mug, we know it's game time and we're going training. Just makes motivation automatic. And we make so many choices in our day, you know, what to wear, what to watch, who to listen to get bombarded, advertise and what message is taking and what to block out like we've decision fatigue. So when you can start automating stuff like this, automating like getting out the door and training, it's super, super powerful. I'm going to go deep on this. I'm going to talk to you on one of the future podcasts, performing loops it's class and I'm gonna try and get a bunch of mugs and get them shipped to you guys for free because that's the sort of deal I am. Now I just I want people doing this and I want to see the power of it and you know I can't have a study of one so I'm gonna get all these mugs out to you guys for free and hopefully they can be catalyst to get new guys out trying it so let me work on that one but that's a little bit down the road next up is the the Soikla Cross plan and obviously continuing with the Vuelta daily podcast which I'm loving the own although it's challenging at times. Uploading in laptops, going through the city and things is difficult, not always easy to get the go connection but loving it so far. So I'll be back to you guys tomorrow and we're going back into the hills for stage 15 and another Apogra Car Victory here at Air Force. Talk to you tomorrow.

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NOT A CONVENTIONAL SPRINT

15:57·7 September 2019

Listen on

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After a few gruelling days in the mountains the sprinters were not to be denied today.

Bunch sprints frequently spell danger and today was no different with a huge pile up 900 meters from the finish.

Join us in Spain for a week of cycling from November 9th to 15th

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Beautiful cycling fans, it's stage 14 of our Vuelta A1 podcast

That's what happened today and you see entire legs and what happens…

It's a great read. It's one of the more formative books I've ever…

Other than that, yeah, I really enjoyed today's stage

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Beautiful cycling fans, it's stage 14 of our Vuelta A1 podcast

That's what happened today and you see entire legs and what happens…

It's a great read. It's one of the more formative books I've ever…

Other than that, yeah, I really enjoyed today's stage

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