Episode 82: Mitch Docker — World Tour Veteran

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The world of professional cycling is full of characters and they don't get much more interesting than Mitch Docker. Between his many iterations of mullets and mustaches, he was a standout, but it's his hard work and talent that made him a stalwart member of the pro peloton. This Australian made his way to Europe in 2006 to start his pro cycling career which has extended right up until the present, although Mitch is retiring from pro cycling here at the end of the 2021 season. Mitch and Ted will talk shop about the state of cycling, the changes over the years, the good, the bad, and the ugly at the top echelon of cycling, being a parent in the pro ranks, plus plenty more. Be sure to follow Mitch on social media, @MitchBowen, and definitely check out his podcast, Life in the Peloton.

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0:00.0	Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of King of the Ride podcast. I'm psyched to keep this
0:09.5	momentum up. We're launching pod after pod after pod. Here we are with episode number 82.
0:15.5	Our guest today, the one and only Mitch Docker. Now, I'm going to be honest, I am pumped to have Mitch on the show because he and I were once
0:24.7	colleagues, but once I stepped away from the pro peloton, I've continued on and become a huge
0:29.9	fan of his work. Mitch is wrapping up a 16-year pro cycling career here at the end of the
0:36.3	2021 season.
0:39.7	He's raised the world's biggest races.
0:44.1	He's known for his personal fondness of the classics and Perry Roubaix in particular,
0:50.9	which A means he's got to screw loose, and B means he's got some very cool stories to tell.
0:55.4	We're going to talk about his entry into the sport, what it's like making that migration from Australia to Europe.
0:57.3	The direction the entire sport seems to be going as we are probably in some pretty
1:01.5	monumental change.
1:03.6	And what it's like to hitchhike home from a spring classic, like Rubai.
1:08.8	That and so much more on today's conversation.
1:12.0	As I said, I'm a fan.
1:14.8	I really wanted to talk to Mitch because I think he and I have some interesting similarities.
1:20.1	He's the first guy in the world tour to have a podcast as he's in the world tour.
1:26.4	That podcast is Life in the peloton highly recommend it check that
1:30.0	one out in that show he has conversations with his friends and his colleagues in the pro peloton
1:35.2	so he can shed stories on that very atypical life so journeyman isn't exactly the word to use because Mitch raced for just three teams over his entire 16-year career.
1:48.8	But his story is one of hard work, grit, determination, talent, all these things amalgamated with his, I guess, really easygoing and fun demeanor.
1:58.7	Mitch is an awesome teammate.
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