It's cool at a compound we're sending Cambriels, park resorts. We're right down the on the road and the beach in saluting, walked down deeper legs after trying it, but it's a full pro experience. And who it's for, it's not for pros. It's a full pro experience for really for anyone. If you can ride your bike comfortably for three hours a day, it's a winter trying and camp. So you're gonna get people going and all sorts of shape. I've had top conti riders on the camp and we're really talking about iron there, but you know when someone like that's in really good form they can be on the camp and you know they can just ride on the front a little bit longer and You can have people that are you know just complete sportifes and comfortably sit in the wheel of a top rider who's Who's just in winter China mode? So we split up into two groups based on ability one I'm not gonna say a fast and a slow group because it's more like a medium speed group and a slower group Guided rides team car behind we regroup the top of climbs. It's just a fun and close of week It's more of a cycling holiday than it is a training camp really amazing week I didn't do it last year. I've done it year before and I've done it year before and we keep going back to Cambrios because it's awesome The climbs are brilliant But they're not too long. You're not like the climbs as I said I went down the door and checked out some of the climbs and they are barbaric like you just couldn't bring a training camp out there You'll be miserable for guys who weren't going in really good shape if you're There are sort of four or five kilos above race and weight. The climbs are so long and horrible out there. Cambriels, we've got some long climbs to contest ourselves. We've got good mix of roll and terrain. And as I said, with the van and stuff, it just makes it very enjoyable because we can throw kit and things into it. Stop and set up the tablet, a bit of grub at the top of climbs and professional photographer coming out. And it's amazing that 650 quid, link, I'm gonna pop it in the description shown out down below. Please join us, this does fill up fast. So if you're hearing this in two weeks time, the link may not still be there. Draw your look, draw your look, hit the link, and if you see it, it's all out button. That's what happened there. So you have been warned. Right, so what are we looking at for the Vuelta? Contenders was, right, I'm gonna go through some of the top teams and how I see this potentially playing out. Movie star, as I said, it's the Spanish world championship, we're a double prone distress because we lost Cara Paz in a crash last week in a non-UCOI race. Bit weird why he was doing that the week before the Vuelta, but there you go, he's departing for any else anyway. So his commitment to movie star, maybe a little bit in question if he had been here. We do have Valverde, who's evergreen, and we have Quintana. So Quintana, he was the winner in 2016, and he won a stage of the story this year, but we're just so used to Quintana being disappointed. And then if rumors are to be believed, Quintana's on the move this year, and he's not gonna be a movie star next year, looking for new challenges. So I just don't really see much out of Quintana, I hope I'm wrong because when he does turn it on he's an amazing rider to watch. Absolutely zero personality which kind of cracks me but and he looks like he's 62 years old which is bizarre. Vavirdi, I love him, the current world champion. He's obviously had that colourful past with the Dauphin band but look, kind of look at the WWF wrestlers. You know, was Hulk Hogan juiced up? Yeah, probably. Am I still a hulkamaniak? You better believe it brother. So yeah, Vavarri, he says he's here hunting for our stages, but Vavarri is always hunting GC. So I suspect he's going to be in around the top five. We've, Yumba is my bit of bad luck today, lives in 40 seconds, but look, it's a long race.
So, Team Wiggins folded today. Wiggins sort of briefly I heard a main interview and he was saying it's kind of come to a natural end. He'd prefer to look back and celebrate what they've done and the writers that graduated to the Pro Tour on dual James Knox a bunch of other guys, rather than to you know have any sort sorrow or mourning for the same fold and you know it's a noise it's a noise sound boy it may be true and how he fails but I also think it's I also think it highlights the port like we just Madison Genesis as well this year of holding in the UK and I think it highlights the difficulty we have for sponsors in world tour and The Reuters are just Like all our attention at the moment, it's on social media platforms. It's on you know, it's on here It's on podcast. It's you guys listen to me. It's on Twitter. It's on Facebook It's on YouTube It's these are the stars like just there's people on Instagram follow ins now that are more famous than some of the world Horror writers and the world tour writers leave this amazing life that we all want to see Like, give us backstage access, give us the Instagram account, give us a Snapchat account of what's going on in the team meetings, you know, obviously don't have the real tactics, it can be selectively added, what's going on in the evening, to bring us behind the scenes, make us a part of that world, because that's what we want to see, and that's how we're going to start spending money, and that's going to give the return on investment to sponsors, the models fucked, the models broken. It's a chargeable donation if you're going to sponsor a pro-solument at the moment, and you know, there's some philanthropists out there who went to Silicon but if you're a philanthropist, you know, there's a lot more award each hour to use around the world with the atrocities going on than the response from pro-solikland to him. So I'd imagine you'll have people coming in with fleeting interests in it like we had Rick Delaney and Akublu and whatever sustainable business model and a change in that, we're just not going to see sponsors sticking around, especially at levels just below the world or because the TV cameras do a lot of the hard work for them at world or They don't do hard work for them as can'ty. So I think we need to see a new breed of riders who are more social media. And social media is just a slang term for the internet who are more adept at using the internet to give us a look in behind the scenes. And I got onto that segue like I often do from EF education because EF education, two riders in this Rigoberto Iran, Iran, Iran, so go denimly twice. They've Iran off the tour, don't see them there much. The few karty of the tour as well, who I really like and I... is Hugh karty super super good climber coming through Rafa Condor obviously another team that's gone. I'd love to see Hugh karty doing something on some of the steeper mountain stages, it's possible. But what EF can education do which I think is brilliant is they do a behind the scenes on YouTube which is amazing. amazing. I love watching it. It's wider. We call my favorite team. I've kind of learned the personalities of the Reuters and it's been really, really interesting. Yeah, Lachlan Morton, Alex Haus and Tyler Finney, been off. They've done the dirty cans, Leadville, a bunch of other off-road racers and I find myself, you know, like we're all kids when we get on the bike. I find myself searching out off-road sections and who knows. Maybe next I'm sure he's target maybe, Jorty Counts, I will be, maybe that will be one of his targets, so yeah, who knows? But it's a great way to bring us into our world and I'd love to see more of him doing it. Orch a green edge, I don't know, a couple of years ago, Backstage Pass, I mean the parody the ACDC song all night long and it was amazing, it went viral, but they stopped doing it and the latest ones have been shitting, I was good, so who knows, there's my rambling on that.