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Oh, Well, gai, everyone, and this is Mitch Stocker, now talking to you from Life in the Peloton.

And of course, I'm joined with Lionel Bernie, and it's bloody great to talk to you, Lionel.

Hello, Mitch. It's great to hear you

actually speaking to me rather than coming through my speakers from the Tour de France coverage

where you made your Tour de France and Cycling podcast debut, traveling with Richard and Francois

and Kate for the week. And I have to say, really enjoyed. I had no doubt that I would enjoy your contributions,

but I really enjoyed your contributions. And you had a lot more success in the mix zone

talking to the riders than I do. I can't work out why they would stop to talk to you more

readily than they do stop to talk to me. But that's one of life mysteries. I did have a lot of fun

in the mix zone. It was really funny. And Richard kept saying to me, you can't do that, you can't troll the writers. I'm like, why not? That's just what I normally do in the bunch. So this is exactly the same, except the best part is I don't have to race with them until sort of two weeks time in Tour of Poland. It was just a really great experience and really eye-opening

to be on the other side of the fence. Very fatiguing, you know, I have to admit, as much as I

wanted to say it was an easy job, the fatigue caught up with me in a couple of days, very different

fatigue to a high-level sportsman because what we do is, sure, it's very fatiguing, but it's a very intense way and you get a lot of recoveryman because what we do is sure it's very fatiguing but it's a very intense

way and you get a lot of recovery but what you guys do is it's a slow burn it's up early it's to bed

late and it's just a slow burn and I tell you what my body was not attuned to that it wasn't

accustomed to it so I was I was wrecked I was bloody wrecked I was trying to do a few rides and I wasn't accustomed to it. So I was, I was wrecked. I was bloody wrecked. I was trying

to do a few rides and I wasn't really performing that well when I was riding, but I did enjoy the fresh air and I saw that side of the beautiful side of exercising in such a job. Just to, for any listeners who don't know the term mix zone, let's explain. I minute. It's your first time on the other side of the

fence, as you say, Mitch, but after the finish or at the start, there's a mixed zone where

the journalists all waiting their little pens, all fenced in. You have to go in the one that's

allocated to your nationality, don't you, or the nationality of your media. So I guess you

would have been going in the

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