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Podcast 2013 Episode 14 – Jealous!
What a week! It’s the 1 year anniversary since we started saying dumb stuff on the internet! We talk social media jersey, Tour of California, harrassment, racing and all sorts of stuff. Not to be missed!
Well sort of. As it turned out, Sarah and I recorded this week’s podcast literally about an hour before the news about the Tour of Languedoc. Anyway, that’s all turned to 147 different shades of shit, so make sure to check out Sarah’s post to try and help us work out what the fuck’s going on over there. It’s a longer episode this week but that’s only because we’ve got a lot of ground to cover. Pour yourselves a strong whisky (or whiskey!) and settle in. (1:15:32 MIN / 72.16 MB)
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Things we talked about this week
The Tour of ChongMing Island World Cup
Podcast 2013 Episode 13 – Women’s Cycling Fans Are Better Than Normal People
Hello sinners! Welcome aboard for a slightly unusual week of podcasting fun and adventure. This week Sarah baits Dan mercilessly with accusations of Queenslandishness, we’ll leave it to you to decide if he doth protest too much. We also do a quick whip around the racing all over the world (there’s quite a bit of it). Dan gets excited about research reports (and possibly owes Daniel Benson an apology). There’s a bunch of other stuff, including a fair bit of laughing and a whole lot of swearing, so grab a beer, settle in and get ready to press play! (1:02:23 MIN / 59.88 MB)
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Sarah’s compiling links for you right now (aren’t you Sarah?!)! Come back in half an hour or so to have all sorts of things to click!
Sarah edit! OK, that took more than half an hour (sorry!) but here’s what we talked about this week…
Last week’s racing:
Knokke/Bredene
Podcast 2013 Episode 12 – Stabby Stabby
This week we open with Dan talking himself out of a pseudo-job while Sarah imagines stabbing him through the computer. We also recap the Luxembourg something something Elsy Jacobs race in all its sprint-tacular glory! We also take a moment to sympathise (no really!) with Team Rusvelo over the difficulty of finding Czech towns as we recap Gracia Orlova. We also take some time to celebrate the return of Evie Stevens to racing, along with Sarah’s favourite Emma Pooley. We travel to the far side of the world to point out the Tour of the Mersey Valley, a 3 stage race in Tasmania which magically proved you can put good, informative and entertaining video highlights on the internet in a timely fashion (EVERY OTHER RACE TAKE NOTE – Fleche Wallone I’m glaring at you… still). We take a look at some cool blogs and things we’ve found. [DAN: I have to apologise for totally fucking up the name of Kimberley Wells' team, which is actually Fearless Femme] We also run through the complete list of acceptable reasons for residents of the UK to not attend the Bedford 3 day race shortly coming up. In summation, this is a fine podcast of great vintage, please to be enjoying. (1:10:55 MIN / 68.09 MB)
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Things we talked about this week
Last week’s racing – the videos we’ve found and Sarah’s round-up of all the action on Total Women’s Cycling
Podcast 2013 Episode 11 – Digressions
This week Sarah and I digress. A lot. It’s like this game I used to play when I was at university and someone would be trying to tell a joke and I would interrupt them to ask really specific and deliberately pointless questions. Like, they’d say “A priest, a rabbi and a cowboy walked into a bar…” and I’d say things like “An orthodox rabbi?” and “What sort of priest? Catholic or Episcopalian?” or “Did the cowboy have pearl-handled pistols?” This week’s episode is exactly like that.
We also talk about a bunch of races including Omloop van Borsele, Dwars door de Westhoek, Sea Otter, Gracia Orlova, Elsy Jacobs and more. There are some excellent blogs from Ashleigh Moolman and Marijn de Vries. But even if none of that stuff grabs your attention, you should at least listen to hear Sarah try to explain what she knows about bikes. It’s fucking hilarious. (1:13:46 MIN / 70.83 MB)
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Things we talked about this week
Last week’s racing – read Sarah’s report about it all on Total Women’s Cycling.
Podcast 2013 Episode 10 – The Coverage We Got Was Worse Than No Coverage At All
This week Sarah brags talks about her adventures in the Hitec Products UCK team car. Dan is absolutely not even a little bit jealous at all. You can tell because he’s definitely not a bastard who asks snarky, jealous questions. Also, we talk about Flèche Wallone: the race, the coverage, how hard it is to live tweet a race with no information from race radio and how it’s actually possible to have worse coverage of a race than no coverage (Dan goes on a sweary rant at this point). (1:03:11 MIN / 60.57 MB)
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Things we talked about this week
Podcast 2013 Episode 9 – The Sound of Sarah Blushing
This week we talk through the rest of the Energiewacht Tour and there’s a LOT to cover. Sarah makes a wager with some team managers. And then Sarah renders me speechless with laughter at the thought of Fränk Schleck trying to race with the women there (seriously – it’s flat, windy, there are canals and the time trial’s important…). We talk Redlands Classic and start to get excited about Flèche Wallone. Sarah offers up some excellent race tactics (it’s easier to win if you don’t fall over? Really?). (1:06:44 MIN / 64.06 MB)
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Things we talked about this week
How I started writing about women’s cycling (aka the Secret Origin of Sarah)
I’m coming to the end of my photography degree – it’s been a long road, because I’m part-time, and I took a step back from the career I had at the time to go back to university, so it’s a strange, transitional stage of my life. One of the things we have to do is a “Professional Practice” – which isn’t just about photography – it’s also about other work we do/careers we want. For example, I’ve been using my cycling writing. This is something for university, so I don’t expect you to read it – but if you want to, here it is!
Podcast 2013 Episode 8 – Strange Bicycle Centaur Woman
This week’s episode is a little bit epic, we’d apologise but we’re not really wired that way. First up we recap the excitement of watching a cycling monument unfold live on twitter (Ronde van Vlaanderen!) and we also recap GP de Dottignies and Stage 1 of the Energiewacht Tour. We preview the rest of EWT and along the way we talk science geek hats, polemica (in cocktail and spatial terms). We also solicit your fan art! Please somebody design us a Strange Bicycle Centaur Woman, we promise to be kind to her! Also, if you’re a Dutch speaker and would like to read Marianne Vos’ book to me, let’s talk! There’s loads more so get stuck in and enjoy. (1:23:24 MIN / 80.06 MB)
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Things we talked about this week
Podcast 2013 Episode 6 – Polemica is delicious and tasty
It’s a feast of treats for you this week! First off we recap last week’s racing, making sure to check in on Emma Johansson breaking her streak of 3rd places, fortunately for her she did it by snagging a win. We also take stock of who’s been crashing (and I take over Sarah’s usual role of being the bastard in the podcast for a few minutes). We invent the best tasting cycling cocktail ever! We also discover that Sarah is a failure at pop culture, shocking I know. We also talk through some Exergy news and Sarah tells us about her favourite team launch event of all time. There’s a lot to cover so you’d best get listening now! (1:01:55 MIN / 59:45 MB)
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And of course, here’s the big list of links and videos for the week:
Sarah’s latest Monday round-up of women’s cycling news and results on Total Women’s Cycling
Giorgia Bronzini of Wiggle Honda won the Classica Città di Padova:
Podcast 2013 Episode 5 – Welcome to the Dark Side
This week we recap the Snowmageddon that was the Drenthe weekend. Sarah catches us up on some interesting developments in the world of marketing for women’s cycling. I teach Sarah about farming (including how to plant a chicken) and we swear a bit too. Early on I extol the virtues of the metric system and we take a look at the upcoming races this weekend.
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Things we talked about this week:
The Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
- Videos of the race
- Photos of the race by CJ Farqharson on Womenscycling.net and Cyclingnews
- Sarah’s round-up of Drentse 8 and the Ronde van Drenthe on Total Women’s Cycling
- Marijn de Vries’ blog about her childhood memories of Drenthe, and her blog after the race
- The ORICA-AIS race report, with DS Dave McPartland talking about why Emma Johansson didn’t get her bike changed
- The @Team_Johansson twitter account, for fans to follow Emma in races and out – we liked this photo after Drenthe:
@emmaprocyclist had a crash before last time Vam Berg.. Gears not working and just had small or big chainring. twitter.com/Team_Johansson…
— Team Emma Johansson (@Team_Johansson) March 9, 2013
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