Post Ride Cafe

Episode Topics:

How do you transition out of your cycling comfort zone? Coronavirus cancellations, Le Samyn recap Paris Nice Preview

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Strava:

Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347

Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453

Strava…..Stats of the week!

Sam - 74.5 Miles. 2175 Ft

Aaron - 186.3 Miles. 5981 Ft

Ride of the Week:

Sam: https://www.strava.com/activities/3166619175

Aaron: https://www.strava.com/routes/24222283 (https://www.strava.com/routes/24222283)

Training: How do you transition out of your cycling comfort zone #justdoit

Pro Cycling News:

Velon suspends Hammer Series

Race Coverage:

Le Samyn Women’s

At 20k Chantal Blaak was solo (60k solo of the 90k course) with a 2 minute advantage over the peloton and a minute over the chasing group. Chase group of 5 attacks each other in last 2k but unable to drop any riders, sprint for the finish

Le Samyn Men’s

DQS is looking for a 3rd win in a row at this race. Rain starts coming down during the Men’s race. Flat for Coquard and Terpstra but got back into the group. Group splits in half around 38k, Ballerini goes off solo. 4 man group breaks 30k , comes back together. Attack at 22k. 1st that looks like it may stick is an 11k group of maybe 14 riders. Reduced bunch comes in and Hugo Hoffstter takes the sprint win.

Takeaways - Nizzolo is there in the group but just didn’t have it in the end, has looked strong all season though. Surprising non-win from DQS, did a lot of work and had a strong team. Israel startup looking good as a new team, 3 wins so far

Next Week Preview:

Paris-Nice: Mostly Sprints. Two possible breakaway days. 1 Climb Day. lots of big names due to cancellations

Episode Topics:

UAE Tour Recap. Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne Recap, Corona Virus

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Strava:

Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347

Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453

Strava…..Stats of the week!

Sam: 35 Miles, 1100 Ft

Aaron: 202 Miles, 6800 Ft

Ride of the Week:

Sam: Discovering a new area for some climbing.

Aaron: WVC

Pro Cycling News:

Corona - Last stages of UAE cancelled and riders quarantined. Most teams cleared to leave but UAE decided to stay for further testing. It all seems pretty odd but clearly just speculation since nobody knows what is going on. Bigger story is what is going to happen to Strade Bianchi and upcoming Italian races. I’ve heard at least Strade is to be decided tomorrow.

Race Coverage:

UAE Tour

Stage 1 - Ackermann beats Ewan Groenewegen and Barbier

Stage 2 - Ewan wins on hatta dam, beats bennett who goes a bit early

Stage 3 - Yates pulls away early and gains time on pogcar. Gadeau looks good, super hot out (man they love to talk up a brit)

Stage 4 - Windy, commentators talking about Cavendish with a chance, seriously? Chaotic final turn with strong showing by gavira and ackermann but groenewegen winning (Cavendish 21st)

Stage 5 - Repeat of stage 3, literally, they do the same climb. Froome on bottle duty. Pogacar attacks and attacks but can’t drop Yates. They come in as a 3 up sprint with Lutsenko who goes to celebrate just as Pogacar gets him on the line.

Takeaways - Campenarts in breaks, riding with the climbers, must be putting in some serious base training (changing his physique?)

Omloop

Wout a late add to the lineup who beat Froome’s strava KOM in Tenerife - showing some form

A lot of wind, set the tone for the race. Winning group slips away with 70km to go and end up pulling out almost 2 minutes. Basically boring from that point until the Muur van Geraardsbergen. Jasper Stuyven and Yves Lampaert pull away from the breakaway group. Soren Kragh Anderson manages to keep up and caught them on the small descent.

KBK

Front break goes early with a significant gap 5+ minutes around kilometer 70 there was a crash holding up quite a few riders and an unknown ineos (later found out to be moscon) throws another rider's bike out of his way. This created momentary splits but nothing significant. The race really got away without the peloton knowing when Kasper Asgreen joined the front breakaway riders eventually dropping them and holding off the peloton that finished just 3 seconds later with Nizzolo and Kristoff coming in 2nd and 3rd.

Next Week Preview:

Strade Bianche

Favorites - Sagan, SEP, WVA, Benoot, Bling, Gilbert, Dege, Nibali, Brambilla, Fulgsang, GVA, Costa, Stybar

Episode Topics:

Ruta Del Sol, Volta a Algarve, Tour Alps, Omloop Preview (Classics opening weekend)

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Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347

Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453

Strava…..Stats of the week!

Sam - 0 miles

Aaron - 145 miles 7,129 ft

Ride of the Week:

Aaron - Silent Sunday, somo PR 45 miles 4,595 ft

Pro Cycling News:

Race Coverage:

Ruta Del Sol

Stage 1 - Fulgsang and Landa go solo - Strade style uphill finish through the city - Winner Fulgsang

Stage 2 - Fast descent 90+ kph leads over a bridge into an uphill finish - Caja Rujal rider goes in the last 750m and holds off the bunch (local knowledge) - Winner Gonzalo Serrano

Stage 3 - Late catch of the break in last 3 km - leaders start to make moves (tuens, landa, fulgsang, haig, izaguirre) Tight corners through city and tuens takes haig into the corner. Mcnulty comes up strong with 3rd behind Fulgsang and Bilbao - Winner Fulgsang

Stage 4 - Haig, Fulgsang, Landa and McNulty strongest of the race go off together. McNulty dropped (too aggressive). Winner - Haig wins 3 up sprint

Stage 5 - Tuens wins the TT just ahead of Fulgsang, Landa shits the bed (fuglsang, haig, landa overall)

Takeaways - Fulgsang is on fire, see if he can hold that over the season. Landa needs to work on his TT but still looks strong, Haig turning into a good stage racer and McNulty steadily improving

Volta Algarve

Stage 1 - Wellens tries to go, MVDP working for teammates - Winner - Jakobsen the strongest

Stage 2 - Steady climb to the finish and in the last 750m evenepoel rockets away, schachman looking strong but waited just too long to close and barely misses the sprint. 3rd place D martin (such a terrible suffer face) - Winner Evenepoel

Stage 3 - Sprint stage - Winner - Cees Bol goes long and other sprinters can’t out power him

Stage 4 - Steep finish - Joao almeda working well for evenepoel (mtn domestique on a classics team) and schachman also strong. Ineos riders look terrible, thomas dropped early. Superman Lopez breaks in the last 500m and holds off the rest - Winner MAL

Stage 5 - Evenepoel beats Dennis, solid TT from MAL (3rd overall) and same time for Schacmann who moves to 2nd overall - WInner Evenepoel

Takeaways - Evenepoel has won both stage races he’s ridden this year and crushed both TT’s. Schacmann looks great for ardennes style races, MAL looking good and must have worked on his TT, terrible TT for D Martin (no changes) and Ineos look bad in general

Tour Alps

Quintana takes stage stage win and overall, quietly showing renewed form. Early smaller race but included Pinot, Bardet, and Porte

Next Week Preview:

Omloop Preview

Favorites - MVDP, Stybar (anyone from DQT), Pedersen, GVA, Tuens, Kristoff

Wildcards - Bauhaus, Colbrelli, Kung, Boasson Hagen, Benoot, Terpstra, Naesen

Episode Topics:

Fulgsang and Race Recaps from Saudi Tour, Jayco, Langkawi and Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

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Strava:

Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347

Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453

Strava…..Stats of the week!

Sam - 42 Miles, 900 ft

Aaron - 212 Miles, 4500 ft

Pro Cycling News:

Ferrari News, Fuglsang, Astana etc

-Plus this story: Spanish civil Guard dismantles massive EPO trafficking network

Velonews Interview with Brandon McNulty

Race Coverage:

Saudi Tour

Stage 1: Rui Costa wins on uphill finish. Some drama after

Stage 2: Bonifazio takes the sprint

Stage 3: McLaren delivers a great lead out but Cavendish fades, Bauhaus cleans up Cavendish’s mess

Stage 4: Bouhani

Stage 5: Bauhaus takes final sprint and overall Victory

Jayco Sun Tour

Stage 1: Dainaise

Stage 2: Hindley wins first mtn test.

Stage 3: Groves wins

Stage 4: Hindley wins again (mtn)

Stage 5: Groves wins (sprint)

Tour de Langkawi

Stage 1: Fedorov takes stage 1

Stage 2: Taj Jones wins

Stage 3: Max Walscheid wins for NTT

Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

Stage 1: Groenewegen

Stage 2: Pogacar beats Valverde

Stage 3: Groenewegen wins again

Stage 4: Pogacar wins again, beats Poels

Stage 5: Jakobsen scores another for Deceuninck-Quickstep (Degenkolb nabs 3rd.)

Episode Topics:

Ketones, Kiryienka and Race Recaps from Cadel Evans GORR, Vuelta a San Juan and CX WC

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Strava:

Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347

Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453

Strava…..Stats of the week!

Sam - 37mi, 917ft

Aaron - 161mi, 5400ft

Ride of the Week:

Sam - Shadetree Bike Shop Group Ride

Aaron - Shadetree Bike Shop Group Ride

Pro Cycling News:

Tour of Oman back on?

Possibility to be rescheduled in early March

Kiryienka Retires due to recurring ‘cardiac issues’

Dutch Anti-Doping Authority ‘uncomfortable’ with Jumbo-Visma’s use of Ketones

Race Coverage:

Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

Quickstep try it again. Devenyns pulls off the surprise

Vuelta a San Juan

Stage 3: Evenepoel dominates the ITT, McNulty strong 5th

Stage 4: Gaviria takes another sprint finish

Stage 5: Miguel Florez wins on Alto Colorado, Evenepoel manages potential disaster and shows his ongoing development

Stage 6: Stybar shocks the peloton

Stage 7: Gaviria mops up the competition

Cyclo-Cross Worlds

Van Der Poel dominates but Pidcock put in a great fight for 2nd

Episode Topics:

Gravel talk, Tour Down Under, Vuelta a San Juan

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Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347

Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453

Strava…..Stats of the week!

Sam - 97.8 Miles, 5774 Ft

Aaron - 189 Miles, 6713 Ft

Ride of the Week:

Sam - Saturdays Sonoran Ride, 40 Miles, 20mi/h Avg, Sunday SoMo: Took another minute off my time, 30:55 Inching closer to my goal of beating my PR 28:01

Aaron - Monday Holiday 71 miles some castle climb and curry down to tempe

Pro Cycling News:

Tour of Oman Cancelled

UCI Gravel Worlds - Riders say they already have a gravel worlds, lachlan - dirty kanza and gravel race in lincoln

Changes to Tour Down Under

Race Coverage:

Tour Down Under

Stage 1: Bennett scores one for the Wolfpack

Stage 2: Ewan Wins

Stage 3: Porte delivers on Torrens Hill Rd

Stage 4: Ewan Wins again

Stage 5: Nizzolo takes the sprint. Bennett 3rd. Ewan...in the dust

Stage 6: Homes beats Porte on Willunga, Porte takes overall

Vuelta a San Juan

Stage 1: Rudy Barbier takes hectic sprint. Crash at 3.4km caused by spectators

Stage 2: Gaviria Wins

Episode Topics:

Tour Down under preview and Women's recap, weekly news and Vuelta a San Juan preview

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Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347

Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453

Strava…..Stats of the week!

Sam - 70 Miles, 1800’ Elevation

Aaron - 112 Miles, 2500’ Elevation Bike, 1200’ Elevation Hike

Ride of the Week:

Sam - Heber Muddin’ Ride

Aaron - Heber Muddin’ Ride

Pro Cycling News:

Colin Strickland declines offer from EF Education

Vegni warns Italian PCT teams to improve or risk missing wildcard invites

Team Ineos announces Riders Calendars, Carapaz to defend Giro, Bernal and Thomas to the Tour, Froome still in recovery

Race Coverage:

Women’s Tour Down Under

Ruth Winder wins Women's Tour Down Under

Who’s there to win it?

Impey, Porte, then Bennett, Powless, McCarthy, Bardet,

First chance for the sprinters

Ewan, Bennett, Viviani, Greipel, Philipsen

Next Week Preview:

Mens Tour Down Under

Who’s there to win it? Impey, Porte, then Bennett, Powless, McCarthy, Bardet,

First chance for the sprinters. Ewan, Bennett, Viviani, Greipel, Philipsen

Vuelta a San Juan

Begins next Sunday

Episode Topics:

Off-Season News - NTT, Ineos, EF

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Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347

Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453

Strava…..Stats of the week!

Sam - 73.5 Miles, 1350 ft

Aaron - 127 Miles, 4047 ft

Ride of the Week:

Aaron - Bicycle Ranch No-Show

Pro Cycling News:

Bjarne Riis takes over Team Manager role of NTT along with 1/3rd Stake in Team

Can Riis make GTs more interesting tactically?

Campenaerts outlook boosted with Riis as a manager?

Velonews Interview with Neilson Powless about transfer to EF Education

Rohan Dennis opens up about his mental health

Team Ineos going national. Rohan Dennis to lead TdU and All Columbian team for Tour De Columbia

Trouble on the horizon for Froome’s comeback?

Episode Topics:

The First! Get to know the hosts and the podcast

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Aaron - https://www.strava.com/athletes/777347

Sam - https://www.strava.com/athletes/150453

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