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Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

BONUS: From the Peloton to the Page: The Story Behind the Stories

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This is a cheeky bonus excerpt from the longer episode. To listen to the whole thing and future episodes become a member of The Pelo. You won't want to miss these exclusive chats dropping throughout the 2025 season! This episode from the Chronicles is a sneak peek into how my Life in the Peloton  and Svein’s incredible 'We Will Never Be Here Again' books came to life. In this special snippet, I’m joined by my mate (and co-author) Tom Southam as we dig into the early days of writing the book together—back when we were just two mates sitting down in Girona, recording hours of stories. It’s raw, honest, and a real behind-the-scenes look at how it all began. Cheers! Mitch

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0:00.0

Cheers, buddy. Thanks for coming out it's happening the reality of it

0:26.6

so I reckon we kick up yeah first thing I'm interested in

0:32.6

first thing I think it's going to be super interested. Like it. Once you've been to the Olympic, seen it, it's like the first track session with the borrow bikes,

0:44.3

how that set up works.

0:47.3

What I think is really nice, if you see if there's anything you took from, like, super early days on the track

0:53.3

or anyone who taught you anything

0:55.0

lasted your whole career.

0:58.0

Do you want to be the first initial session?

1:02.0

I think the thing then was like the community feel.

1:08.0

Like I don't know if that last, maybe it did last through my whole career, because

1:14.6

I came through a different way that, in compared to other guys, like, the thing that I loved

1:18.8

about Brunswick was, when you went down there, there was no, like, which I found out later

1:23.8

on.

1:24.8

When you first went to Brunswick, that's just what you thought cycling was.

1:37.6

So I came down, I had a pair of T-Mobile Knicks, no bibs.

1:48.0

And I came down and rolled, I might even rolled a T-shirt or a very loose jersey and trainers yeah and there's there's bikes there like they're just sort of everywhere like I

1:53.4

kind of the track used to be different than what it is back then but the seats

1:56.3

there I don't know if you went before I fixed the track up but the seats there

1:59.8

was two clubhouses like old, old like stone clubhouses.

2:04.3

And inside was just like, I feel like hundreds of bikes.

2:08.0

It's probably only like 150 bikes, but all Hillman track bikes.

2:12.6

And when you got there, that first day we got there, I didn't go into the club rooms or anything.

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