so today race replications um riding over towards the course now uh the first thing we're gonna do
is go and check out the finish then we're right down to pedro agua good pronunciation there and
then basically we're gonna do uh three races it's four versus four and basically it's down to you
as a team to work out how to beat the team the course finishes with to down over and into the
sprint before that there's a four or five minute climb out of order so basically it's down to you
to kind of work out your own tactics do you want to set it up for the climb do you want
to try and have someone away before the climb do you want to make sure alex peters is nowhere to
be seen to ride off me on the climb that's like that's your job to try and work this out and yeah
try and come with the best tactics you can as a group of riders we're deliberately doing it
in small groups because in the day the chance of having like a full team of eight at the end
of a finish coming to a finish set it all up is probably somewhat unlikely to work in small units
work to your strengths use the weaker riders to advantage you know try and do the work to
set your set your strong boys up communicate amongst your teams yeah communication is key
so i'm very happy to be in the car today with uh john boy owen from mavic and the guys from
the team are doing a bit of race simulation so we're gonna be driving behind no they can't use
the car at all but they're definitely in each group of four there's going to be a bit of a bit
of interest to see how the other pan it out each team's gonna have its own tactic depending on the
level of rider that's in the team and who performs how well split up evenly so be interesting to see
which each team nominators there main man and see if it comes off it's not a new nickname
then oh no it's been it's been been a nickname for six years now come on cam dropped already
so to put things into perspective this is the seventh day of riding for these guys on training
camp and they've done some big volume coming up to this race day session yesterday uh you may
have seen yesterday's episode there was 200k on the cards and most people finished the full 200
so they're definitely going to have some tired legs today and they'll have to
be thinking as well because race simulation i thought you were still there so i hit it
again i should have still both of them came past me they've known that was the quest
that's good i had ross underwear and harry attacked and i was like oh that's gone
i thought i had another because i saw the hairpins i thought there was another hairpins climbing
well did a good job i think we could definitely be more aggressive
like yeah if ollie was up the road as well
the best climber on their team to the front and he was like well i'm
not taking the sprinter to the finish so we just start there and just cruise up the hill
tactics yeah yeah you've got an unfair advantage because you only did three hours yesterday
funny you know because i remember my ride being six oh
really yeah strava cut it off it wasn't fair i thought some of us did six solo though
is that all morning morning about what's your legs there haven't you
got sore legs now the camera's on his legs are fine is that funny there's no problem with him
yeah raising each other yeah all at once yeah yeah so that's very interesting because
you don't know which team you're going to want to make the break do you the minute and do the
work it's amazing how much they are learning about each other's skills and not having to do
it in the first race they actually enter so exercise like this is so valuable isn't it
i mean to be fair the eight lads over here have been here for a few years know each other very
well they hate coming in but they know them well but have never ridden actually with them
as as a race team and things like stewie balfour been abroad for five years he's not raised in the
uk apart from doing that under 23 worlds he's a bit of an unknown they know him as a person
but not how he performs and so far this week i've been very impressed with the way he's going he's
doing really well but everybody's fitting in well and it's knitting together very very nice
and there's a lot of opportunities going ahead for some big results to pay back our valid responses
back into try and not
thank you a video of your coffee that's the up market
put it about your ear that's meant it looks great that's not true it's worked for me
absolutely is true it's quite gorgeous now why is it that distance to turn your camera
it turned into an eating challenge i wasn't allowed to eat more than half
because it would make owen upset but what i'm hearing is now it's an eating challenge
so i've got to eat my baby one bite one bite one bite whole donut
oh
i don't know if i'm impressed or embarrassed what donut
that was mad as if as soon as you got an airpod it just came for it what birds
oh he's coming he's coming