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Oh, Gidey everyone and welcome to Life in the Peloton. I'm on the eve of the Vuelta of Spania and I thought I'd sit down with Lionel to introduce the next episode. Welcome Lionel.

Hi there, Mitch. It's, well, it's just gone mid-October and you're getting ready for a three-week

grand tour. It must feel really quite strange. The days are getting shorter. The temperature's

dipping a bit. What's it like there in Spain where you are? I tell you what, it felt like today

the break of spring. It was a very, very weird feeling because it was like a bit cool in the air, the sun was breaking through and I thought, this feels like a day just after, you know, Pari Roubaix and I'm just starting to get myself ready for the next block. And I was like, hang on, it's the end of the year and I'm about to step into the Vuelta of Spanio, it doesn't feel

like I'm on the eve of a grand tour, let alone the Vuelta. So it is a very surreal feeling,

but on the other side of things, I'm very much looking forward to doing a big race and making

2020 all worthwhile with, you know, a big race at the end of the year.

Well, it is the day after the Tour of Flanders, so I suppose you weren't that far wrong.

It's very unusual, though.

It is very unusual, and it's very unusual watching these races and everything being out of sync,

and it is just a bizarre sort of season, but, you know, whatever it was it was two three months ago or maybe four months

ago I was very skeptical that we would get this far and I'm very happy that we have got this far

I never thought we'd be able to do all this and race so late but it's amazing what you can get yourself

to do when the circumstances are changed so who's in this week's episode of life in the

Peloton, Mitch? I've got an exciting episode this week. I thought it'd be very good to bring this

episode up because I originally want to release this when the Vuelter-Spanion was originally on,

because today I'm talking to Greg Griffiths, who is a UCI International Commissaire, and he is from Australia, and I sat down with him over the summer when I was in Australia. He actually doesn't live too far away from me. He's from Melbourne. And we were talking about when I see him at the Vuelta Spania, and I take note from him popping his head out of the top of the car there, and I thought, great, this is going to be a great episode to release just before the Vuelta so here we are a little bit delayed

we're on the eve of the Vuelta and I thought it'd be great to hear about

behind the scenes from a commissaire what they actually have to do how they can

unpack the rules how they make those decisions the daily life of a comm. So it's a pretty good episode. I hope you

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