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Oh, Well, here we are. Welcome everyone to another episode of Life in the Peloton, brought to you by the cycling podcast.

And I'm happy to be chatting with my good friend again, Lionel, to preview the new episode with

a good friend of mine and a pretty famous voice in the commentary world, Matthew Keenan. So,

welcome, Lionel. Hi, Mitch. How are you doing? Are you back in Europe? I am, yes, back in the old

cold depths of the Spanish sun, which has been pretty nice, I have to admit.

A bit of a change from down under though, probably lost about 20 degrees Celsius.

I have, but I keep catching myself out and every day I'm wearing big winter clothes and the next day I go a little bit lighter, a little bit lighter.

And actually, I think today I rolled out in short, no leg warmers and a thin, a thin, long-sleeved

jersey and I was still regretting it.

I should have gone arm-wormers and a jersey because I was getting hot out there.

It was 22 degrees and the sun was hot. Well, that just means

spring's coming and that means the spring classics are coming of course. But this episode,

Mitch, tell me, Matt Keenan is a name that I am very familiar with, but a voice that I'm perhaps

less familiar with because most of the summer I'm away working on

the races rather than watching on TV. But I imagine a lot of people around the world will be

will instantly know Matt's voice as commentator on the Tour de France. That's exactly right. And I

know his voice just that little bit better him and I grew up in the same

suburb in Melbourne I didn't know him as as early as he knew me he knew me as a as a four-year-old

but I only rekindled with him when I got into cycling when I was 16 years old and from that day

he's been a bit of a mentor for me right through the junior ranks right until I became

professional and it's so great to touch pace with him when I'm over here racing away and I get to

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