Roadman, it is one of the most iconic climbs in professional cycling,…
Roadman, it is one of the most iconic climbs in professional cycling, Ulta Le Anglerou. The Vuelta went up and it was serious drama. Let's talk about it. Cue that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our long changes? That is the question and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Roadman. roadman welcome back it's another week it's another month on the roadman podcast we are rolling into november and we're still talking about cycling everyone complains about the corona virus but for cycling it's unbelievable this is normally a time of the year when the error has gone back it's doom and gloom around cycling going aw it's so long till cycling comes back and that feeds into our motivation out on the bike, but we're still talking about one week of bike racing. We're into the final rest day on the Vuelta and it's November. Let that sink in. When you're letting that sink in, guys, just to remind there about the podcast and how we support the podcast, it's over on Patreon. The link is in theboyoutopatrion.com forward slash Anthony underscore watch. Years ago, I used to have a Facebook live show. We don't want to week. It was was called the A1 show, we got massive viewing figures on it and it ran for about two years. But the problem is we never figured out how to make that sustainable. So as good as it was and everybody thought it was going to last forever, it never became sustainable. So with Patreon, that's my goal on this. It seems like this podcast is going to be around forever because it's getting so much traction at the moment. But I'm just so cautious to make sure history doesn't repeat itself and it sticks around for a long, long time to come. So please, if you want to help it stick around, if you're getting some value, if you're enjoying it, if you're having a laugh, if you're learning something, buy me a point of beer once a month to just say thanks for the podcast and in return, you will get access to the secret podcast. It's once a month, I'll give you access to the secret podcast where I answer all your boring questions and ask me anything type format. Guys, let's jump being it's stage 12 it was the queen stage of the Vuelta aspania I a little bit regretful if I'm honest that I haven't done a daily Vuelta podcast but on the balance I think it's for the best I've got to bring you some amazing guests like Lawrence 10 Dom last week and I have another awesome guest that lined up this week but you'll have to wait and see who it is but I have been following every single day and I'm deep in the trenches on it and the time and this podcast is just perfect because yesterday we had stage 12 which I said was the queen stage. Alter the Angluru, one of the most iconic climbs in world cycling. It's the Vuelta's answer to Abduheus or Mombon II and that's initially why they stuck it into the race to rival these great iconic climbs in France or the Stelvior, the Mortarola and the Giro de Talya. So the vital stats on this Beast of a climb it's 12.5 kilometers long and it averages 10.3% with pitches of up to 24%. Just a soy nut wouldn't it be really cool to fly around the world and do all these iconic climbs like there's some of them that just maybe is a separate podcast you know what maybe I'll do this is tomorrow's podcast you know what that's it I'm scratching tomorrow's podcast topic and I'm gonna bring you guys iconic climbs because I'm just fascinated with where are they, what are they and what are the top five ones. So I'm gonna park that taut and I'm gonna bring that to you tomorrow. So we're on to the Vuelta Angrilou. It was the big showdown for this stage 12 and all the contenders went into it as we say, kind of groupo compacto, no real surprises, except Mark Salaire from movie star. He was the winner of stage eight a few stages ago.
He was dropped on the penultimate climb We all headed into this…
He was dropped on the penultimate climb We all headed into this iconic and sometimes controversial climb if you cast your mind back to 2002 and Show my edge here at 18 years ago And we had the British former world champion David Miller stopping at the top of the Angruloo, two or three meters short of the line and taking off his numbers and handing them in as a sign of protest. It was a sign of protest of the weather that day, it was paint on the road, the wheels were spinning, the climb was too high for them, nobody had much love and Miller was disqualified from the race for an off-finishing stage. It was a gesture that definitely was echoed across a lot of the Peloton at the time and it was, talk maybe the climb was too hard that wouldn't be put back into the race. But we have seen it as a feature through the years. And this year we had EF Education, Q-Karti, coming up to this kid. He was four on GC going into the race. But he stamped his name by winning not only a grand tour stage, but winning one of the classics. And he stamped his name with the great climbers of all time, like I'm tinking guys that have won on this stage, like Roberto Harris, Alberto Contador, Jose Maria Jimenez, Chris Horner. He's the sixth fastest rider in history. Up the Angrilio. That's pretty damn cool and I have a good friend who was teammates with him back in his raffodays and he's meant to be a super super nice guy. It was just punch getting thrown. It was like looking at the 12th round of a heavyweight world title for it. These absolute hitters. So at the pointy business end we had Carty, we had Vlasoffu, we flagged early in the race as a potential contender We'd Einrich Maast, the young Reuter, classification leader, we'd Carapaz, we'd Roglitch, we'd Dan Martin, we'd Sepp Kuss, and for a period we had Walt Paul's and Mike Wodz. We had these guys just literally turn strips out of each other as the climb alternated from that brutal 24% back down to 18 or 15%. Like it seems strange to even say back down to 18%. You don't hear that off. Nobody ever says the climb went back down to 18%. Different Reuters strengths came into play like Hugh Cardi suffered a little bit on the super steep pitches but seemed to recover a little bit faster than the guys when it came back down to that 15-16%. And in the end we had Cardi forging ahead and in pursuit we had Blasov and Mas and that's the way finished. Karate 16 seconds clear of Lassoff, Mass and then Karapaz very importantly latched onto the back of Lassoff and Mass at that 16 second lead and Roglic didn't come in for a four to ten seconds with Seppkos and Dan Martin so he's 26 seconds back, seen the race lead to Karapaz by 10 seconds now and then we had Walt Pils and Mike Woods bringing up the rear of that kind a leak group at a minute thirty-five back. What does this mean for the overall race? Like, if you haven't had a chance to go back and watch that yet, even though I'm sure you've seen the results everywhere and you've now you've listened to the podcast, go back and watch the last 10-15 kilometres yesterday's stage. It's absolutely epic. Not my fault in my sight, it's epic sport. These absolute gladiators, turn strips out of each other, that all on the line for our entertainment. It's incredible viewing. I've heard commentators this morning and I've read an article saying, you know, is this traditional rug glitch falling apart and that's something I talked about. Potentially rug glitch could fall apart heading into the toward week. Was this rug glitch falling apart? For me, absolutely not. This was a massive show of strength in my view from rug glitch. This is one of the hardest climbs in the world. Rug glitch is not a super steep, high-mountain climber like the Luxa Carapas equidorian born at altitude. Roglic isn't that type of rider. He's a good, steady GC all around there and we're heading into Tuesday's time trial with Roglic only losing 10 seconds. Like if you were to say to Roglic before we start this race, you're going to have a 10 second deficit to make up going into a 26.2 kilometer time trial on Carapas.
Would you take it? The lad would have absolutely bit your hand off
Would you take it? The lad would have absolutely bit your hand off. I don't see this as a sign of Roglic just falling apart. I see this as a sign of Roglic has grasped this race and now Tuesday he's going to put his stamp on it. He's 10 seconds to make up on Carapaz and then we have in turn place Hugh Carter here 32 seconds. This time trial is not a straightforward time trial but Roglic is a versatile time trial rider. It's a 36.2 kilometer time trial but we have a 2 kilometer climb at the end. I I listened to Wiggins in commentary in EuroSport yesterday saying he doesn't think the time trial is going to be the deciding factor. I completely disagree. I think the time trial is Roglich is so strong. His team are so strong. Seb Koss is there in the final yesterday with him. If you listen to Roglich, actually I think I have a quote here from Roglich. I think Seb could have went for the win, but he had to stay and support me. The guys are on a great level today. Hopefully we'll have some opportunity in next few days, but the overall is the big goal. So Seppkuss caught on that stage, he looked super super strong, but he stayed with Roglic because they know Seppkuss isn't going to win the overall, he's not going to win the time trial. Roglic is nailed on now for this Vuelta España, I almost said Dure D'Italia, he's nailed on for this Vuelta España. Wiggins doesn't see the time trial as a deciding factor, I do. The steepest climb in the entire race, Roglic only gave away 10 seconds to his nearest rival carapas. I expect them to put in over a minute into carapas and Hugh Carter on Tuesday's time trial. He only lost 10 seconds in the hardest race in the hardest stage on the hardest climb in the world. We have some steep hard uphill finishes coming but he's such a strong team around them and he's going to be going into it with about a one-minute buffer in my opinion. Roglic is taking control of this year's Vuelta aspania. Hugh Carter is the man we need to celebrate for the moment because it was an incredible win and for someone that's been around for a little while now I think he's 31 years old he's etched his name into Grant Hall history and I'll leave you a quote from him he said it's a dream come true to win any professional boy grace but to win a Grant Hall on the most of mythical climbs it doesn't get any better from that it's hard to put it in towards Hugh Cardi, Chappal, Hats off to your son enjoy the Vuelta España rest day everyone and we're gonna be back while the Reuters at least are going to be back for a pivotal time trial on Tuesday. I'm going to keep you posted along the week and we might do a wrap up show on the Vuelta on Saturday or Sunday, especially edition one. Thanks for tuning in, roadmen, to another roadman cycling podcast and I'm going to be back to you tomorrow talking about iconic world climbs. Chat then. 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 leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guesswork out of everything. It's 14 days of 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 roadmansoidglings.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the bio. That's roadmansoidglings.com slash 14 day.