BONUS: Life in the Peloton Chronicles: New Season, New Challenges

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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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! It’s been a long, cold winter, but Svein and I are back for the 2025 season with a fresh ep of Life In The Peloton: Chronicles for you - the Pelo members. Just like when we were pro cyclists, which feels like a long time ago now, we had ourselves a little off season to reset, freshen up, and make plans for the next year. It was great to catch up with Sveino for the first time since October, and this month we’re talking all about kicking off a new season as a rider. That mental reset is just as important as the physical one, and after a little break, Sveino and I are itching to get going! Things have changed a lot since we were riders. Back in our day, we had a relaxed start to the racing season; plenty of base miles over the winter, then rock up to Tour Down Under ready to get some intensity in the legs and build towards the first “real” races in the Spring. Sveino even rode 2000km from Canada to California for an early season team camp in 2003 to build some fitness after a winter relaxing out in the snow and skiing rather than riding! I love hearing Sveino’s wild, adventurous stories - he’s like the original Lachy Morton. Nowadays, early season races like the Tour Down Under are real targets for a lot of riders. Whether it’s a team hunting UCI points to avoid relegation, neo pros that need to start getting experience in the bunch with the big boys, or legendary riders targeting San Remo in March that want some race KMs in their legs before their competitors back in Europe. We’ve just had the 25th edition of the race, and I was down in Adelaide getting stuck into the action in the commentary booth, at the roadside, and - of course - behind the pod mic, catching up with some old mates. Svein and I listened back to some great chats with our old mates Michael Hepburn, Luke Durbridge, Sam Bewley, and Aaron Gate about the Tour Down Under and how it can set a rider up for the season ahead. I also caught up with a guy I used to love spinning a yarn with in the bunch; the president of the CPA, Adam Hansen. We spoke about the new UCI rules that will impact the races this season. New feedzone regulations, changes to time gaps if you crash in the final, and the introduction of yellow cards for multiple infractions - it’s going to keep the riders on their toes this year, that’s for sure. As always, Svein and I chat about a heap of other topics - with plenty of anecdotes from our time in the bunch and the years since we both hung up the race wheels. I love telling these stories, and I hope you love hearing them. Cheers! Mitch

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0:00.0	Swino. Gidei, mate. How are you? Hey, buddy. Wow. Been a while, eh? Jeez, is this how we got to do it? We have to
0:23.6	have a friggin podcast if we're ever going to talk to each other. Seems that way.
0:29.0	Jeez. Well, I'll take it. If that's what we've got to do, then so be it. It is funny, though,
0:34.0	like, we made it happen today. Both of us have got a bit of stuff going on and weirdly
0:40.9	you sort of if it was a phone call it wouldn't have had as much pressure um you know you get to it
0:48.2	and why is that why do we why do we put work in front of, yeah, I guess friendship?
1:02.9	I just think like we're, we're, I think this happens, you know, like especially when you have family and then you have work things and you're far removed.
1:09.0	Like we can't just go meet up in town and grab a beer and shoot the shit.
1:12.2	And it feels weird like on the phone, you know?
1:14.9	Not that it is weird, but it's just not the same.
1:20.9	And so it's like, I sometimes wonder like, you know, like these conversations we get to have, I think that's why we enjoy them so much is that, you know, we are talking maybe about things
1:25.7	that we wouldn't say if we were just calling each other,
1:28.5	but we delve into ideas and things that we enjoyed kind of discussing and talking about back in the day, you know?
1:34.2	And I think that's a really solid part of our friendship.
1:38.0	So, you know, it's like, yeah, unfortunately, sometimes the podcast is kind of the best way to catch up, if that makes sense.
1:44.8	Well, it is, it's not too far off the way we speak to each other, really.
1:48.5	The only difference is we sort of have some topics we want to cover.
1:51.8	And the rest of it for everyone out there is like sitting on the couch with, with you and I.
1:58.9	Exciting or not exciting.
2:00.2	You guys make your judgment. but I guess we should welcome everyone
2:04.2	welcome to the new season of the Life in the Peloton Chronicles with Swain Tuft and I last year
2:10.9	if we've got new members welcome this is your first episode of the year last year we started off
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