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Oh, Well, welcome back to racing, everyone. Life in the Peloton is back on the road. And finally, I'm back to racing. And I can do the real podcast once again, back on the road, back in the life of racing. I've got Lionel to join me again this week. Welcome, Lion once again back on the road back in the life of racing i've got lionel to join

me again this week welcome lionel back to the episode hi mitch how are you doing i'm doing well mate i've

recovered it feels like i've been on a bit of a grand tour or something i've only done two one-day

races but i got back from those two one-day races and I felt like I needed to have a little mini

off season. It was pretty hectic. The racing was hard. It was hard being away from the family. It was hard being back in, back in the old life again. Well, you say back in the old life again, what is this week's episode all about? I think this is a really good idea. You came to me with this idea and you said,

you know, it could be interesting, get a bit of a diary on your first race back, which at that

point I thought was going to be Tour of Poland. My program got changed to Strata Bianchi in Milan,

San Remo, and we thought, I don't know, can this idea still work? But it did work brilliantly

because what I didn't think about was this time between

we're in these bubbles now. There is no going home between one day races. We stayed together for

the week in Italy, in a beautiful Tuscan villa, by the way. And it was just a really cool

atmosphere, cool, weird, whatever you want to call it. So I sort of recorded

snippets over the whole week and try to give everyone a little tiny insight to what life was like

back on the road or what life is like on the road as a pro cyclist, staying with the team,

talking to mechanics, talking to riders, before the race, before the

recons, after the race, you know, during the week when we're just kicking back as well.

It's actually turned out a hell of a lot better than I initially thought it might.

Well, it's a kind of a fly on the wall of the EF Pro Cycling Team Bus and inside the magnificent

Tuscan Villa, which I think you do mention half a dozen

times or so through the course of this episode. So it must have been spectacular.

It was, it was actually brilliant. I tell you what, I really did feel lucky there. I was not telling

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