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Ever wondered what life is like as a professional cyclist? Australian ex-professional cyclist Mitch Docker takes you inside the world of Professional Cycling. Bringing you the stories behind the individuals in the sport - from the pros in the peloton to staff behind the teams - to commentators & legends, plus training insights & debriefs on major races throughout the year. It’s all here! Newly retired from the professional peloton, Mitch is exploring his new pelotons - all the pelotons that ...
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Lael Wilcox: The fastest woman to cycle the globe
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP This week on Life in the Peloton, we’ve got Lael Wilcox back on the pod. As many of you know, Lael has just become the Guinness World Record holder for cycling around the world. She rode an incredible 29,000 kilometers starting from Chicago, circumnavigating the globe in 108 days, 12 hours, and …
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP Regulars to the pod might be familiar with the story of Christian Meier the cyclist, the teammate, or the Girona resident and coffee shop owner. But, inspired by organising my first running event - the ‘Pub to Pub’ in Lancefield, this instalment Life in the Peloton is all aboutChristian Meier: t…
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Talking Luft Top 6's! Worlds with Rob Hatch
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP Hey everyone, we’re back this week with another Talking Luft Top Six Most Influential! This week I’m joined by one of the most recognisable and talented cycling commentators, Rob Hatch to talk all about our most influential World Championships. The World Road Race Championships is not only one o…
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Hot Off The Press - Vuelta España Virtual Press Room
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP Life in the Peloton has been cooking up something a bit different for you this week, I’ve thrown my press badge back on, and jumped in on the rest day press-conference action, to bring you the very first “Hot Off The Press”, Life in the Peloton’s Virtual Press Room from the Vuelta España. With s…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP It’s Race Communiqué time at Life in the Peloton, and this week Luke Durbridge, Tom Southam and I, are once again covering all of the latest action from inside and outside of the peloton as we move into the final big phase of racing for the year. First up, we dive into the latest news from the V…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP This week’s episode of Life in the Peloton is a treat for all the tech fans out there as we’re talking to Josh Poertner. Currently, Josh is the owner of iconic cycling brand Silca, where he has been doing some really cool stuff in the past few years, but he’s also one of the minds behind some of…
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Talking Luft! Vuelta Top 6 with Sam Bewley
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP This week Talking Luft’s Top Six Most Influential is from one of my personal favourite races with one of my best mates from the peloton: it’s the Vuelta España with Sam Bewley. Sam had a great career on the road, riding all three Grand Tours in his thirteen-year pro career and is now a successfu…
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Unbound and Beyond - Haley Smith and Rosa Klöser
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP This week on Life in the Peloton we get away from skinny tyres and dive back onto gravel with Haley Smith and Rosa Klöser, two stars of the privateer gravel scene Many of you will have seen the epic finish at this year’s Unbound Gravel, which ended in a gripping nine-rider sprint in Emporia. Bot…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP This week on the pod I managed to catch up with one of the revelations of the season and one of the big players of last month’s racing at the Dauphiné and Tour de France, Matteo Jorgensen. 2024 has been a huge season for Matteo. After four years knocking at the door at Movistar, last winter he m…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP A little later than usual, but we are back this week with a hot-off-the-press Race Communiqué. The Tour de France is the only race on the calendar where, myself and my two regular podcast guests, Luke Durbridge and Tom Southam are all on the ground at the same time. After a month on the road doi…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP This year’s Tour de France will tell many great stories; Biniam Girmay becoming the first black African stage winner, Mark Cavendish’s 35th record breaking stage win, and it’s looking likely that Tadej Pogacar will complete an epic back to back Giro-Tour double. But, behind all those headlines i…
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Life in the Peloton Chronicles: Grand Tours
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This is a short excerpt from the longer episode. To listen to the whole thing and future episodes become a member of The Pelo. It’s finally here! The Big Show! The Tour de France. The biggest bike race in the world is about to kick off, and to celebrate the spectacle Svein and I are talking all about Grand Tours on this week’s Chronicles. 21 stages…
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Talking Luft Top 6's! Tour de France's Most Influential with Dan Jones
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP It’s time for another Top Six! This week, I’m joined by my old mate - the creator of Greenedge’s infamous ‘Backstage Pass’ series - Dan Jones, and we’re talking about the biggest race of them all; the Tour de France. It doesn’t get bigger than the Tour. I’ve been watching it since the 1990s, but…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP In this week’s episode of Life in the Peloton, I’m learning more about one of the most important parts of life; sleep. When I retired from the professional peloton a few years ago, we were already wearing sleep tracking devices and starting to tap into how we can improve our sleep and, therefore…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP This episode is supported by our friends at The Escape Collective. The Tour de France is here, and this week’s Race Communique podcast is our Tour preview with a difference! I’m joined, as always, by Luke Durbridge and Tom Southam, who’d literally just got their fresh TDF haircuts, to discuss ou…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP This week on Life in the Peloton we have a dead set legend of a guest, Geraint Thomas might be a Tour de France winner, but the Welshman is also, so, so much more. These days you could think of him as a Grand Tour guy, but ‘G’ has not only had an incredible career, but an amazingly varied one. H…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP I’ve been loving doing the Top Sixes on this show lately, but this week I thought it would be fun to go back to the old-school style of Talking Luft! So this week it’s back to the rapid-fire questions, having some fun and putting our guest under a bit of pressure while we work out what their cyc…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP Jack Haig is one of only a handful of Australian riders to have stood on a Grand Tour podium. An almost accidental pro who fell into a career on the road whilst surfing and mountain biking back in his home in Australia as a teenager, he has been a constant presence in the biggest stage races in …
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP After a short pause, this week we’re back with another episode of The Race Communiqué! We’ve had an absolutely bumper month of racing with the first Grand Tour of the year, the Giro d’Italia, wrapping up in Rome just a few days ago. Racing is what this pod is all about and we are going to be dri…
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Life in the Peloton Chronicles: The story of GreenEDGE
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This is a short excerpt from the longer episode. To listen to the whole thing and future episodes become a member of The Pelo. In this month’s Chronicles Sveino and I have gone for probably our deepest dive yet - back to where we first got to know each other, taking a look at the formation of Australia’s first ever World Tour cycling team, GreenEDG…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP This episode is supported by our friends at HVNM. The team at HVMN have an offer for all Life in the Peloton listeners with a whopping 30% offer for orders when you visit hvmn.com/lifeinthepeloton. This episode is also supported by our friends at Pillar Performance. Head to pillarperformance.sho…
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Talking Luft Top 6's! Giro d'Italia's Most Influential with Harry Dowdney
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP What else could we be talking about on Talking Luft Top 6 this week other than the Giro d’Italia! My guest on this episode of the pod is one of the many people who keep the sport looking and sounding so cool from the other side of the lens, film producer and director, Harry Dowdney. Harry has be…
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP After dipping my toes into MTB Enduro on the pod a few weeks back, in this episode of Life in the Peloton I dive right in, at one of the best Enduro events in the world, the NZ MTB Rally. The NZ MTB Rally is a six-day Enduro event that takes place around Nelson on the South Island of New Zealand…
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Well, we are coming towards the end of an absolutely action-packed month of pro racing, which can mean only one thing; it’s time for another Race Communiqué! As you all know by now, this is my chance to dive back into the pro peloton with current Jayco-Alula rider, and former teammate, Luke Durbridge and my former DS (and even teammate - way, way b…
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What is Enduro? With Paul Van Der Ploeg and Matt Fairbrother
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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP Since retiring from the pro pelo, I’ve been itching to dip my toes into as many different cycling disciplines as possible. I raced on drop handlebars and skinny tyres for over a decade, now I want a heap of new challenges to tackle on the bike. I love getting out and exploring on my gravel bike,…
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