Rollman, let's talk about the fastest man in the world and his first…
Rollman, let's talk about the fastest man in the world and his first one day world horror race. It's Sam Benas. Let's Cute on intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our longevity? That is the question and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Welch and welcome to the Rollman Podcast. Roman welcome back. It's another low man cycling podcast. What day we at? Thursday, COVID lockdown times. You're gonna lose track of the days a little bit. The only way I'm orientating myself is with bike races at the weekends. Pari Roubaix has been called off. We speculated on it earlier in the week, which is pretty shit news, to be honest. Really disappointed to hear it was called off. But yes, the 118th edition of Prairie Roubaix and the inaugural edition will not take place this year according to the newspaper La Perusia, and it was scheduled for April 11th, but because of COVID, we are now fucked and we're losing Prairie Roubaix. So that's not great news. But what is great news is yesterday's sambenet won the three days of the pan, which is now condensed into one day and they're calling it the bruge the pan classic. Before I jump in and tell you all about that, let me just remind you about Patreon. Patreon and Rubey get cancelled. They're go hand in hand, they're not two distinct different things. Rubey is cancelled because the COVID situation is making it so difficult and the real pressure COVID is putting on on local shops, local economies is real. And luckily with the podcast, we've been able to weather this whole storm, but that's thanks to you guys, everyone that digs into their pocket, boys a coffee, boys a beer, and says, thanks for the content. It's worthwhile, I hope it's still here post COVID. Thank you very much for that. And if you'd like to continue to support the podcast, or if you haven't supported the podcast yet, it's a flavor. It's the price of a point of beer to support the podcast. You can head on over to patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore Walsh. The link is in the boil and support the podcast and put a smile on my face. So yesterday we had the three days of the plan, which is condensed into a one day world tour race and at Sam Bennett, the fastest man in the world. And I don't think I'm being part of the same boy as saying that the car control man is the fastest boy grower in the world. And this is mental to say this because I grew up racing against Sam Bennett. I know I'd race some most weekends and Sam was coming through juniors as I was getting started and I didn't start a junior, I started a senior and they put the category tree and the juniors in together for races. So it was like tree guys, Sam Bennett, Aaron Buggell, good friend of mine and Philip Laverie and the tree at Em were like, you know, it was nothing to separate them. So, you know, I'd say it's interesting for the two boys watching one of their peers going on and becoming the best in the world and he is the best in the world. If you look at the finish yesterday as the classic of Bruce the Pan, there's something for every single person to learn that's an aspiring boy-crotor from that. Cycling it's like chess on wheels. Your teammates, your domestiques, they all have different roles and they're like pawns in this little game and figuring out when to use them to conserve energy for yourself, to move you up, to position you. It's all very strategic and quick step are the masters at this. If you watch yesterday, watch the last 10 kilometers yesterday and try and find Bennett, try and isolate his movements. A noisy move on the left, a noisy move on the right. When are his team taking it up, Bennett does not hit one single bit of wind until about 150 meters to go on that race yesterday. and the race was chaotic, like, been a flag that in the interview after the race. The street furniture, the torns, the ballards, the corpse, I don't think that's acceptable at that level of racing. That's something like when you head out the Belgium, you're racing carmasses in the summer. There's a little bit of an acceptance that that's just the way it goes because they want to get bike races in and venues are, you know, everything's like that in Belgium. There's street furniture everywhere, they call them sleep and policemen. But when you step up to that level and everyone's home over it, everyone so fast, everyone so fit. It's crazy to have that many obstacles that can cause bad crashes. We all remember last year's Downhill, Sprint, Fabio, Jakob Simmons, it was a bad, bad crash and we don't need reminding that stuff and we definitely don't need courses that are almost built to cause these sorts of crashes. So I'm been at Navigator that unbelievably well and just go back watch it freeze frame and where he's moving, why he's moving, when he's putting energy out it's absolutely unbelievable. Before I wrap up today's podcast I want to just talk to you briefly about Vuelta Catalonia. Catalonia is my favorite part of the world to ride a boy. I absolutely love it and yesterday's stage was brilliant. Adam Yates at the head of the Boi Grace with Cepcoos and Evergreen Alhamdral Valverde. And Cepcoos got dropped, Valverde actually got dropped force but hung on a little longer. And Estavans Chavez got to see one of the happiest Boi critters in the world coming back for a strong second place. So in the end, they finished out Adam Yates, Estavans Chavez and Alhamdral Valverde. It's Catalonia's epic, it's brilliant racing, it's brilliant racing again today so it's definitely worth tuning in again today to check that out. I'm gonna be glued to it for the remainder of the week, really disappointed about Ru Beggon but I'm absolutely over the moon about Sam Bennett and his dominance and just great, great to see. Roadman, thank you for listening to my rambling and I will be back to you again tomorrow. Hey everybody it's Anthony again, really quick I want to invite you to join arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. It's a challenge, it's a challenge called a 14 day kickstart challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at right now, this is going to be the catalyst for making you faster and making you the leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guess walk out of everything. It's 14 days, training plans regardless of what your level is. There's Masters, Beginner, Advanced. There's meal plans, shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you true at all. So what I recommend you do right now is just stop everything, press pause on this audio and go to roadmansoycling.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the bio. That's roadmansoycling.com slash 14 day.