Kate Wagner, who in former lives was a classical violinist and architecture critic, is covering her first bike race – the Tour de France – and keeping an audio diary about the experience for The Cycling Podcast.

In this first of three instalments of her audio diaries, all to feature as part of the Kilometre 0 series, she talks about the art of packing for a month on the road, the French hotels, her first face-to-face meeting with a rider she has been thinking about and writing about for the past five months, Primoz Roglič. And she records her emotional response to the crashes that marred stage three.

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