John McAvoy

Watts Occurring

Rocket Sports

Sports, Leisure, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Meet John McAvoy, an endurance athlete with a difference. In this episode, Geraint and Tom chat to the former armed robber about how a rowing machine changed the course of his life, how he broke a world record from inside a prison gym and what his bike has done for him since. And we get the inside story on the miraculous recovery of Geraint’s stolen bike! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a crowd podcast.
0:10.0	Hello, I'm Garron Thomas.
0:12.2	And I'm Tom Ford Ice.
0:13.7	And you've just entered the Garayn Thomas Cycling Club.
0:16.6	Brought to you by Zwift, the indoor cycling app that makes training fun, because fun is fast.
0:23.4	Croiso, that's a bit of Welsh for you.
0:26.1	Gerard, you seem to have had a rather busy weekend, a little bit of a roller coaster.
0:30.5	If people haven't seen your social media recently, let me introduce this story, and you could do it properly for us.
0:38.2	Coming up next on Crowd Network, a new series of true crime thrillers.
0:42.8	Episode one, Geraint's bike.
0:45.6	Yeah, so I was on my bike and I don't know what I started talking then.
0:51.1	I was on my bike.
0:52.4	Just a nice little afternoon ride was with a mate, Michael Valgrin.
0:56.6	Yeah, we stopped for coffee because we both, it was quite late in the day and we hadn't had lunch.
1:00.4	It was about half two.
1:01.7	So we stopped there many times before.
1:04.1	Little caffeine menton, which is 20 minutes from Monaco on the way towards Italy.
1:10.0	Little retirement sort of place, really.
1:12.4	You know, average age must be 65.
1:14.3	We stopped there.
1:15.2	Cafe Italiano is called.
1:17.0	We left our bikes outside.
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