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Oh, Well, here we are again, another episode of Life in the Peloton.

I'm pleased to have my co-hosts on here, Lionel Bernie, from the Cycling Podcast.

Welcome, Lionelel to another episode.

Hi, Mitch. How are you doing? I'm doing well, actually. I've been a good dad at the moment. I've had

plenty of time at home, and that is probably one of the biggest positive sides at the moment to

the controversy of what's going on around the world and also inside the small cycling bubble

the coronavirus which has sort of turned everything up on its head and especially in the cycling

world if anyone doesn't know about it you know a lot of the um italian races well all of the

italian races for the next month have been cancelled and i was was due to go down to Strata Bianchi on the weekend.

And instead, I was at home having a weekend with the family, which was nice on the other side.

Well, tell me what actually happened because your team, EF Pro Cycling, were really proactive on this issue.

Jonathan Vortes, the team boss had been on Twitter kind of talking about, you know, how, you know, the show must go on. And I got the sense that

he kind of got educated a little bit on the situation with this virus. And then within probably

48 hours, the team had pulled out of

the Italian races and was kind of leading the way certainly wasn't the only team to pull out of

the Italian races and also Paris Nice and then of course strada Bianca Toreno Adriatico Milan San

Remo all cancelled hopefully will be rescheduled later in the year but as a rider

all set to go your bag presumably packed ready to catch a flight how do things play out for you

I think I'm not exactly sure how the final decision came with the team but I guess it was just a hell of a lot

more to lose than to gain by going

down there with a whole team, everyone flying from different parts of Europe across into Italy

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