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Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Grace Brown - From World Champion to Bowing Out in Style

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP Well, this is it, guys. It's the end of the road season, and if you're a long-time listener, you'll know it's the end of the season for us here at Life on the Peloton. For the pro peloton, it's time to take a break from cycling. Just thinking of it takes me back to my racing days, as the 'offy' was always a bit of a special time, especially when you first arrive back in Australia. You’ve got time to rest, have a bit of a party, and reconnect with home before it's time to get back into training for the new season. Before we shut down for a little break, we've got a really special guest to close out not only our season but her career too. None other than the current Olympic and World T.T. Champion, Grace Brown! I've been holding off on chatting with Grace online this year because I wanted to have this conversation in person. Little did I know Grace was going to have the epic season she's had, capping it all off with the ultimate mic drop: calling it a day on professional racing while winning at the highest level. After all that amazing success through a season that saw her become Australia’s first female monument winner, I managed to catch up with her, still a little jet-lagged from the flight—or her career (we weren’t sure which was catching up with her!). Grace was kind enough to meet me for an afternoon coffee in her adopted hometown of Melbourne to have a good old-fashioned yarn for this pod. We talked about her career, the Olympic Games, her experiences there, retirement, relationships, and of course, how to bow out in style. For the final time this season, it’s time to sit back, relax, and enjoy. Cheers! Mitch ----more---- 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.

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0:00.0

Oh, here we are, guys, Life in the Peloton, presented by Map.

0:17.2

Don't forget, it is a great time right now.

0:20.1

The Life in the Peloton book that we released earlier this year is being exclusively sold at Map. Look, this is a project I worked on with a good friend of mine, Tom Southrum, over the last few years. It's a guide to what life is like in the Pro Peloton. Look, it's for everyone, from the aspiring pro to the cycling nerd to the

0:40.0

newbie. There's heaps to read in there. Either drop into a lab and grab yourself a copy or head over to

0:45.6

Map.comc and get one shipped out to you right now. Well, this is it, guys. It's the end of the road

0:53.0

season. And if you're a long time, Lisa, you would know it's the end of the season for us here too at Life and the Pearl Time. We've always followed the road season calendar and it's time to have a break from cycling. It's time for offseason. It's time to rest. Time to have a bit of a party. But then it's going to be time to retrain pretty soon as well.

1:11.7

Well, in the light of all that, we've got a really, really special guest for you to close out not only the season, to close out her career too.

1:20.1

It's the Olympic and world champion Grace Brown.

1:24.3

She's just arrived back here in her hometown Melbourne Melbourne and she was kind enough in a jet lag state

1:30.2

to come and meet me for an afternoon coffee and just have a good old fashioned yarn. I've been

1:35.5

resisting in jumping online and chatting with Grace this year, always knowing I wanted to kick back

1:40.9

and have this conversation with her in person. But little did I know she was going

1:45.2

to have such an epic season that she's had. And in the end of all that, all that success,

1:51.4

do the ultimate mic drop and call it a day on professional racing at the high of all heights.

1:58.2

But look, although we won't be having a podcast come next week, there will be,

2:02.2

of course, lots of good stuff going on at Life in the Peloton still throughout the end of the year.

2:07.1

Just around the corner, we have got the Life in the Peloton map cycling kit and casual

2:13.4

app app. You heard me right. The very first map Life in the Peloton kit is coming.

2:22.0

It's coming just in time for Christmas, a great little stocking filler, or why not a cheeky

2:27.7

gift for yourself too? December 1, the kit will be launched and if you were at the Specialised Dirty

2:32.8

Docker last week, then you would have seen the first glimpse of some samples of the kit floating around. But if you couldn't make it,

2:39.6

don't worry, just check out the video, all the socials coming out of the Specialised Dirty Docker

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