BONUS - Punched by the Divide: Sveino vs. the World’s Toughest Race

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 15 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! We’re into July, and the Tour is about to kick off. The Tour De France is the biggest bike race in the world in terms of exposure and the sheer number of eyeballs watching the action but, at just over 3000k, it’s dwarfed by the monster that is the Tour Divide. A much smaller spectacle, with supporters watching dots on a screen rather than glossy TV coverage, but at 4000k in length and the added challenge of racing entirely self supported across the entire USA, The Divide is arguably the toughest race going. If you caught last month’s Chronicles, you’ll know that Sveino was gearing up to head to the start in Banff, Canada, with 200 or so other crazy riders and tackle this absolute monster of a race. Well, Sveino’s back home after having a stab at the Tour Divide and in this month’s chronicles ep we’re unpacking just what went down along the Continental Divide. Sveino gave it his all, and prepped for this race like he was a full time pro again! But, in the world of bike racing, you can be totally prepared and still get thrown a curveball. In the words of Mike Tyson: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” What happened to Svein out there? Well, you’ll have to listen to find out. Sveino, mate, fair play for giving it a crack - what an epic journey. The race was eventually won by Swiss ultra racing legend Robin Gemperle who absolutely smoked the record and finished in 11 days, 19 hours, and 14 minutes. That is ridiculously fast - and self supported, too?! Rather you than me, buddy. Chapeau. Guys, thanks as always for being a Pelo Member. I really hope you enjoy these yarns between me and old Sveino as much as I do. Cheers! Mitch P.S. 🚨 Tickets for The Pub to Pub and The Dirty Docker are LIVE so don’t miss out! 🏃🚴

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0:00.0	Here we are.
0:15.1	Been a bit of a whirlwind.
0:16.5	We're a little bit late, but it doesn't matter for all good reason.
0:20.7	Swayno, how are you, mate?
0:23.8	Yeah, I can honestly say I've been much better in my life.
0:29.5	You know, it's funny.
0:30.5	It's like, I think we have a pretty good, like, reference point of, like, doing grand tours
0:35.9	and things like that to kind of say like,
0:38.3	oh yeah, that was pretty tough.
0:40.4	I'm pretty wrecked.
0:41.7	But this is next level.
0:43.9	This is a new area, a new experience for me.
0:48.0	And I will say that it's, it's been weird and rough.
0:53.6	Yeah, like trying to keep a positive spin on things and like,
0:57.4	what do you keep your chin up, skip, you know, that kind of talk.
1:02.2	It's been, it's been different.
1:07.3	Let's just put it that way.
1:08.9	Shit.
1:10.0	Well, what we're talking about, of course, is the true divide, which,
1:14.7	true divide, sorry, let's put the of in there, which started in the 13th of June.
1:20.4	Everyone here's going to know what we're talking about because we've, we've prepped for it,
1:24.1	we talked about the prep.
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