Hello and welcome you beautiful cycling fans. It's the Vuelta podcast. Here we go again. It's another breakaway stage. Epic drama today, probably as a neutral one of the most enjoyable stages. So far drama right until the finish line. A busy busy show as always and a lot to cram in in our short little condensed 15 minute window. So let's jump right in. getting started out, I want to just give honourable mention to our show sponsor Missing Peace. They've been with us for the entire of Welter and they will be with us for the remainder of the Welter. Missing peace, they make custom beast bulk gifts, they're based in Dunne Hall, they're a family-run business and I've been rabbit-nonty about all the good reasons you go and check them out and guys and girls I'm humbled and it really means a lot to me to see it so many of you have gone to check it out. I got a couple of messages today with people that have bought gifts for Christmas, they've bought gifts for holidays. And it means a lot that, you know, even though it's Christmas is, you know, a good bit despite the fact that Brown Thomas Dublin's put on its Christmas decorations up to Christmas is a long way off. It's a great endorsement of the podcast and it'll help us attract future sponsors that so many of you guys have responded and are shown interest and making your purchase. So thanks very much for that. I'm going to pop the link as always for missing peace into the show notes and description. And if you haven't checked them out yet, I I encourage you to do so. Today's stage, we call it yesterday, it was stage 11, dominated by the breakaway, the escape, some fast racing to get started, but the yumba of his my boys. You know, they're new to this game of winning grants for worst, they've obviously had the jersey for a while in the year old, but they were disciplined, they knew who to let go, and when they did let the group go, it was a big group that was of no stress. People that were sort of interested in the group went on to Bethesda were Bidehausen Lastre Kavagnya who pulled him the S in the TT from Quicksdap. I'm not sure if I said that one right. And we'd lost some Craddock up there. We had Michaela Turo up there from Escati Basque and yeah it was an interesting escape and if fragmented and came back together and fragmented. The action really kicked off from a viewer perspective. If you haven't watched it yet, well, we're watching the last 10K, even though I am totally gonna spoil it for you, but it's still worth watching it. Even for the dynamics of a breakaway and how sometimes the underdog does win. There was an uncategorized climb about 10 kilometers from the finish. But when I say an uncategorized climb, an uncategorized climb in the house, Sorry, and on categories climb in the Vuelta is, holds my local climb. I don't know, I'm just brainwashed because I rolled up with today. The oncategorized climb in the Vuelta is a difficult climb. It's not oncategorized climb in, you know, the tour of Britain, which is more of like, which is there next week, which is more of like a bridge. And on categories climb in the Vuelta is to be respected and it was tough, like it split the break. And we had one guy rolling the dice just before that and getting out and his name was Michael Atura. Probably a writer a lot of us don't know. I didn't actually know him either. He's from the BASK team, the SQD BASK team, which are incidentally folding at the end of the season. So what an opportunity for the lab to get out and showcase himself and I'm sure that's all he was thinking when he initially struck for home. You know what, I showcase myself that the writers have been told they can go and look for a new team, new employment for next season, short notice in a very competitive job market for a pro cyclist at the moment. We always closer to home with a bunch of British teams following them. We've wiggens gone, Madison Genesis gone, so a lot of good pro-roiders at the county level are going to be stuck without a team. Even Evil Pro in Orlando, I'm not sure I haven't heard of their continuing yet, but I've heard rumors that possibly they're finding it difficult to secure a sponsor, so hopefully that works itself out but difficult environment for pro teams at the moment. So what a chance for a jury to get out and showcase himself and put himself on the jobs market and that's what he's done. But what he also did was it's something we've spoke about in the past when the dynamic of the chasing group initially their goal is the same goal. They want to escape from the peloton very collaborative. When it becomes obvious that the winner is going to come out of this group, the atmosphere within that group changes. It's not like a light switch, it's not binary, it doesn't change at a given moment.