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Barrenetxea has six points in the mountain classification and will be looking to add to that total here. Plenty more climbs to come later in the day, too.
The break are on the first climb of the day at Etxauri.
Ezquerra is back with the breakaway to make it six up front. Six minutes back to the peloton.
Brandon Rivera, Egan Bernal, and Luke Plapp are leading the peloton for Ineos Grenadiers.
141km to go
Seven minutes from the break back to the peloton.
An unclassified hill on the way to the climb of Etxauri and Ezquerra is in trouble off the rear of the breakaway group.
Movistar are working on behalf of their GC leader Enric Mas, while Ineos will be working for race leader Ethan Hayter and their GC hope Dani Martínez.
Movistar and Ineos Grenadiers are working at the head of the peloton at the moment.
150km to go
The riders covered 42km in the first hour. 6:30 between break and peloton currently.
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The gap from break to peloton has settled at around 5:30.
Barrenetxea leading the breakaway today in his polka dot KOM jersey.
The breakaway isn't too notable, and it's extremely unlikely that the group of six will be staying away to contest the win today.
However, mountain classification leader Jon Barrenetxea will be on the lookout for more mountain points with three second-category climbs and two third-category on the menu today.
The gap from peloton to breakaway stretches out to five minutes.
There's still some way to go until the riders hit the first climb of the day. The second-category climb of Etxauri (11.4km at 3.2%) lies a further 48km up the road.
168km to go
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Now the gap has gone up over four minutes.
179km to go
The gap to the break is only going up as the peloton are happy to let them get up the road so long from the finish.
Three minutes for the breakaway.
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A few early unclassified hills over and done with and now the riders will be traversing rolling roads for the next 60km.
188km to go
A few kilometres under the belt and the breakaway riders have two minutes.
KOM leader Jon Barrenetxea (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) is joined once again in the move by Txomin Juaristi (Euskaltel-Euskadi).
Javier Romo (Astana Qazaqstan), Jesús Ezquerra (Burgos-BH), Carlos García Pierna (Kern Pharma), and Alan Jousseaume (TotalEnergies) are also up there.
The move has already been let go by the peloton. Names incoming...
Several riders from the invited ProTeam are on the move early on.
194km to go
It's a long one today but riders are on the attack as soon as the flag drops to start the stage proper.
Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) is a non-starter today. The Basque rider is suffering from a respiratory infection.
Here's a look at today's stage map.
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