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Hi, I’m Lou. Welcome to my Lou Tube. It’s stage two of the tour to France farm of Eggswift and stage two of me chasing Rianne around the French countryside like a maniac. We were going to get started even earlier today, but I was editing until 3:00, so needed a little bit more sleep this morning. So, she went out for a run, burn off some energy, and here we are going for about 90minute ride. It’s part of yesterday’s route before we head on to today’s finished town. Let’s go. [Applause] Matey boy behind didn’t like being overtaken, so he’s trying to catch up with us. [Applause] Yesterday was ridiculous. If your ears hurt from my video, I’m sorry. My throat hurts, too. I did a lot of shouting. What a day. I don’t know how we can top that, but we’ll try. Just a casual 250 watts trying to keep up with Rianne. Nope. The problem about doing a shorter route with Rianne is she doesn’t need to hold anything back and she sends it the whole way round. So, I get some excellent training. This week will be my training camp of the year as always. Thank you for making me fitter, Rianne. Oh my gosh. And she’s bought me a pan shakala arand as an incentive to get back even quicker. So, yep, we’re doing it. Ride done. Shower, changed in the lift. Let’s get out of here. Onto finish town stage two. Getting sorted. Look at these bikes. Rob, your bike is rather sweet. Pink cycling club. Pink cycling. I’ve been thinking on that one. I was going to sing it to you guys. There it is. We are parked up and getting ready to ride to um the climb, the penultimate climb of the stage. Bit of a pump action rianne before we ride. Oh, Rob. Would you uh like to have some of this road? Oh my word. It’s not cold, you know. Maybe we I don’t know. Should we save it for when it’s cold or do we just pop it anyway? Lead the way, Rianne. Have you got a song to sing? [Applause] Okay, we’re parked up. We’re just past the top of the climb. So, our bikes are here stashed and we’re getting ready. The caravan has already been through, so there’s lots of polka dot t-shirts everywhere and the riders should be through in about 20 minutes. Is there a particular rider you’re looking out for? Uh, maybe Kristen. Maybe Kristen, do you think? Look at this. Right, where are we? We are at the 30k to go point. So, I think they might We’re at the top of the climb. I think there must be a banner there. And then they’re going to come over and go down that way. And then they’re going to go and do a loop and then they’re going to come back. Amazing. And we get to see them again uh with around 4K to go. Yeah. Rianne, help. What’s happening? What happened, Rob? What? What? Who brought the Oh my god. So shy. So shy. [Applause] flying [Applause] [Music] Hey [Music] guys on this side. [Applause] [Music] coming this way. [Applause] [Music] Alex. Alex. Alex. It’s Kristen. Go Kristen. [Music] Comes the caravan. [Music] Free stuff. Free stuff. [Laughter] Free stuff. Free pass. [Music] Woo. [Music] Woohoo! [Music] It’s the chicken one. It’s the chicken. Woo! [Music] Free stuff. That’s so cool. [Music] No hats. This might come in handy if you’re getting a bit hot. Oh, I’m not getting a bit hot. I am very hot. Uhoh. Uhoh. Oh. Oh, hello there. Oh, radio TV digital. [Laughter] Multi mix. Multi. Multi mix. Oh, this actually is quite nice. [Music] Go so fast. I didn’t even get her. Here comes the rest. [Applause] [Music] All [Music] right. Heat. [Music] Heat. more on the other side. Yes. [Music] Little update there, please. Rianne, who’s in front? M Garcia is uh 2K to go. Still 11 seconds up. Um I think she might do it. Do you reckon? She was come. She came in so hot. I didn’t even get on the video. I wasn’t ready. I was like, “Oh my god, so fast.” That’s amazing. Mavi. Wow. God, she held it. She did with like I think two seconds on the line. Incredible. Mavi Garcia. What a star. Wow. Wow. Wow. Oldest rider in the Pelaton. Just won stage two. Here we’ve got a bunch more riders. Who have we got? Who have we got? [Music] Hey Y big group coming [Music] [Applause] [Applause] on Kristen. Yes, Kristen. And the last one before the broom wagon is Yeah. Ali watch your ballet. That’s it for today. What a stage. Brilliant. Now to watch more fems v Spain. Yes. So, let’s hope that Spanish don’t win the football even though they won stage two today. Oh, yes. Yes. They better not just get inspired by Mavia. Just saying. No. So, next lionesses. Let’s go. Yeah. Got a bit of a go load to get out of here. Barely hanging on. Seriously, where’s Rob? Not sure. Rob, I can barely find him. There’s a baby in the corner. [Music] Wow. Uh, what is going on? What’s happening? The uh route was blocked. So, we are going straight through the middle of some sort of party. Hello. Hello. So, we’re still watching the fam, we’re just watching different fam. And I can’t focus on what’s on the screen because instead of my video being banned by the ASO and cycling people, it’ll be banned by FIFA and all the footy people. So, we are watching it. We are one all at the moment. We’re hoping it doesn’t go to extra time and penalties. kind of hungry and need some dinner. But um come on England. Come on the lioness’s. Are you enjoying it? There’s two minutes left going into overtime. We’re not going to handle that. Let’s go England. Yeah, let’s go. Let’s go. We need an update. What is going on? Well, that was the end of extra time. We’re now going to penalty kicks. I got my lucky loops on both sides. Gosh, I don’t know. Four beers. This is the time. Can we please like in five? Let’s just go ahead and let’s go with three block one or two of Spain. Let’s make it happen. Come on in. Let’s go. Let’s go. You going to That was a penalty that got disallowed. So, we celebrated a little bit early, but then we just got one in. This is quite stressful for our beautiful nails that are being chewed on. I’m like literally chewing them all off. The lucky loops you got going on here. Looks like some sort of bre lips. Oh yeah, this is how I sleep at night actually. Okay, hold on. No, we’ll just keep it on me. Okay, because it’s one one right now and we’re stepping up. Here’s the kick. And [Applause] oh, let me put it back on. That’s lucky. Spain just missed. Come on, England. England is up. It’s 2-1. Lady Hampton just uh blocked the last one. Okay, here we go. Oh, they saved. Saved. Saved. We’re still okay. Saved. We’re still okay. You know what? We’re still okay. It’s still 2-1. We’re coming up to the fourth kick. Uh Spain just missed. If we score this, we win. What’s going on? It’s 2-1. So, we’ve got Dame Kelly stepping up. Hasn’t been kned yet. Switch to the lucky 2-1. If Kelly scores, we’ve got this. She’s super sub. Oh, no. I can see it in the mirror. Oh, wow. You need to change it this direction. Okay, I got you. She’s got the hop. It’s the [Applause] [Music] It’s come home. England. Wow. Oh, wow. What? I got scissors to chop up my pizza. Oh my god. It’s so hot. I can’t even stuff it in my face. Wow. That’s really cool. Okay. I can’t keep up with her on a bike, nor can I keep up with her on a pizza. Oh my gosh, that was pretty special. She went at it with a knife and fork. So, it turns out these might not be I didn’t I didn’t see it. I can’t keep up either of these. Impressive. What a woman. I’m talking loudly over the music so I don’t get done by copyright. But I’m partying with these guys. and the rest of France. Oh yeah, what’s going on? We’re peeking too soon. I’m wrapping up this video before I get back to the hotel and start editing and then fall into deep regret about not wrapping it up. So Rob, we’re navigating home thanks to Matey Boy Mustachio that we drove past 500 times earlier looking for a parking space. We’re green. Okay, we’re walking. We’re going back to hotel Rianne. Okay, Rianne the taskmaster is making me ride 100 km. Yeah, let’s do it. 100 km tomorrow. Fast. So, we’re going back now. Going to get some sleep. Try and process another amazing day of women’s sports. And I will see you tomorrow for some pain. Not my kind of ham, which means bread. her pain that she inflicts on me for stage three. So, um, thank you for the likes, comments. If you don’t subscribe, please do. And we’ll see you tomorrow. Bye. Go on the lionesses. I know I wrapped it up, but France. Okay. 999

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8 Comments

  1. Normally when you slot-in behind a rider, you get that momentary feeling of relaxation as you ease off the power and settle into the draft. Rhian looks like the type of rider that when you slot-in behind her, you think "damn, this sh*t is going to hurt". Meaning this in the most complimentary way possible, Rhian is an absolute truck…

  2. The past two days have been incredible fun, to witness France putting on two T'dF's at the same time. I BELIEVE, the womens' tour is here to stay!

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