From San Remo to the Stones: Laurence Pithie Heads for the Cobbles

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP Our man, Laurence Pithie, is back for the second episode in our mini series following the young Kiwi star through the 2025 Spring Classics. After a delayed start to his European series, Laurence kicked things off on the weekend at Milan San Remo. We kick this ep off with a quick voice note from him live from the hotel room, and man, with the weather those boys had right at the start, I can tell you I’m glad I’m not a rider anymore. I caught up with Laurence after the race to get his insight into how things played out, and how his race went. If you’ve not caught up with San Remo yet, go and get yourself up to speed - but safe to say, it wasn’t an easy day for any of the riders, let alone our man Pithie. I won’t spoil the result, but hearing how Laurence’s team got around him, and his ‘never say die’ attitude was super cool. Of course, San Remo is just the kick off for Pithie’s Spring. Next up, he’s off to Belgium - the home of the classics - for De Panne, E3, and Gent Wevelgem; three absolutely massive races that lead up to The Tour of Flanders at the start of April. Oh man, these are some of my absolute favourite races. The Belgian fans, the chaos in the bunch; in a messed up way, I kinda miss it - so I can’t wait to hear how Laurence finds them. Laurence had a great ride at Wevelgem in 2024, so we spoke about what his expectations are for these first races back in Belgium to find out if he’s doing anything this time around. Of course, aside from the racing, it’s good to hear the young gun is still looking forward to getting familiar with a few Belgian beers and really soaking in the culture; that’s something I’m particularly jealous of. Finally, I spoke to one of Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe’s sports directors - another Kiwi, ‘The Flying Mullet’ himself; Shane Archbold. He gave me some great background on Laurence, what it’s like working with him, the mechanics behind his transfer to Bora from FDJ, and what he’s capable of this season. Shane’s a good mate, and a real good judge of character, so it was great to hear that Laurence has really fit in with the team and found his feet within the structure straight away, so he can focus on trying to win some of the biggest races in the world. Right guys, enjoy this episode. Our next catch up with Pithie will come next week after he, with a bit of luck, has just won the E3 and Wevelgem double…don’t let me down, Laurence. Cheers! Mitch Chapters 00:00:00 - San Remo Morning Vibes 00:03:26 - San Remo Recap 00:07:14 - Crash on the Capo 00:08:50 - Working with Ryan Mullen 00:11:10 - Gritting it Out Post-Crash 00:13:04 - Poggio Climb: The Decisive Moment 00:17:06 - Mental Takeaways & Confidence Boost 00:18:08 - E3 & Gent-Wevelgem: Game Plan 00:22:36 - Shane Archibald Interview 00:32:00 - What’s Next for Laurence I’VE WRITTEN A BOOK! The Life in the Peloton book is OUT NOW! Get your copy now exclusively at maap.cc! Can’t wait for you to read it. JOIN US IN THE PELO Where do you sit in the PELO? Come and join the Life in the Peloton membership.

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0:00.0	Wow, we're here on the morning of Milan van Ramo, and yeah, just looking out the window now, is pretty horrible weather it's super wet and low fog so
0:26.0	it's definitely going to make for an interesting race today hopefully it clears up and warms up a
0:30.9	little bit but yeah I think you can expect some fireworks in the rain later on today
0:37.3	everything's gone well in the lead up.
0:39.3	Felt good yesterday on the ride and now it's just time to rip the Band-Aid off and send it.
0:46.3	We have a super strong team here with lots of guys to help our leaders. We have a few leaders and yeah it should be a good race. I have Ryan
1:02.0	Mullen as my wingman today so he'll be helping me through the day to guide me and keep me
1:07.5	out of trouble and when I stop he'll stop So that'll be a nice luxury to have.
1:13.2	And yeah, it'll be a lot of going back to the cars for foods and changing jackets, I presume,
1:19.4	with this weather, but it should be an exciting day and let's go.
1:34.9	Well, that, of course, was Lawrence Pithy, giving us his thoughts before Milan San Remo.
1:38.7	And what an epic edition it proved to be.
1:40.7	We're here, we're in the classic season.
1:43.5	We've got the Cobble Classics coming up this weekend and we're chatting
1:44.2	with Lawrence about Milan San Remo, plus what he expects to do in E3, Gent Weblegum and the rest
1:50.6	of the classic season. He's going to be doing Warragam, Flanders and then Roubaix as well.
1:56.1	So we've got heaps coming up and what a pleasure to be writing the classics with Lawrence
2:00.3	Pithy.
2:06.3	This is Life in the Peloton brought to you by Map and we've got heaps of stuff going on in Life and the Peloton this year. We took on a brand new podcast for you guys this year called
2:11.1	Race Radio, a great series that Harry and Stu produced last year and they decided to come
2:16.2	across, make the jump
2:17.8	across to Life and the Pelt on this year. This episode they've just recently put out is with
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