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Oh, Good day, everyone. I'm Mitch Stocker and welcome to Life in the Peloton, my podcast. As you probably know, my time in the Peloton has ended. My final race was Paribay and in this episode I'm going to get

you to come along with me on the road for my final trip. We're speaking to other pros in this episode,

Bert de Bacca, Luke Derbidge, Matt Heyman, Sebastian Langeveld, Stefan Bissinger, Tom Scully, Michael

Valgrin, Sam Buelly and Jack Bauer. So guys, sit back and enjoy

my last road trip as a pro. Yeah, it's bloody rough, and you go away and do a lot of other races,

but then when you come back to Rubei, every time you enter into your first sector of cobbles,

you just get this reminder of how bloody rough these

cobblestones are until you're actually there doing it like you can watch as much stuff on TV as you

want but you just don't get any kind of feeling it's one of those things you sort of love hate

relationship with situations like yesterday you you're when you're a part of the race, it's one of the most beautiful

races, but when you, on the other side of the race, and it's, uh, can be the most horrible.

So, uh, I think that's why it's, um, so special.

Damn, I got some respect for you guys that's done it so many times and like, it's, it's brutal.

It's honestly brutal.

It's a really long day. And then the cobbles make it even harder and all these bombs and stuff like you're you're really uh going at the

limit of your body as well and i think that's what it makes so so special that's also why it's called

the hell of north but it has something special i eh? I mean the cobbles, the history,

when I was young, my period was like Moseu, van Pedergum, those guys, it's, yeah,

for me it's just a special race. And I think one of my top results was also in Roubaix.

I came in the

velodrome sprinting for the victory with Van Ava Mad and a C-bar. Yeah, that's something you

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