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Oh, Well, here we are, everyone.

Welcome to Life in the Peloton.

I'm back talking with Lionel Burnie.

This is the last episode of the year.

I've just had the last race of the year.

I'm sitting back home. Not late enough for a beer yet, but there will be a beer later on today. Lionel, have you cracked a beer yet today? Not today, Mitch. It's only lunchtime and I've still got to do my turbo session, so tend not to have a beer before the turbo session. I don't know what you pros do, but I don't think that's the done thing, is it? It makes it a hell of a lot more fun and then, yeah, a hell of a lot harder too.

We've got a great episode coming up. It sounds a bit funny for me to say that because the

episode is me answering questions, but it is Swaintaft asking me the questions and I did a fantastic gravel trip with him.

If you've heard the talking luf, that was out on Wednesday.

You would know that this episode was coming.

That was talking with Swaino there.

Him and I were away on a trip up in the mountains in the Pyrenees and he put the question

out to me, can I interview you on your podcast?

I thought, who better to do it than

Swaino? So guys, without further ado, I'm going to give you the episode. It's a long one,

hang in there, and we'll have a chat after the episode. Hope you enjoy. All right.

Well, Mitch Docker, I think it's been a long time in coming that we get to delve into your life because for me you're one of the more interesting characters

in the peloton i think that's saying it uh pretty weakly you're you're a massive character in

the peloton you know we just finished up this trip in the valderan and the ariege gravel trip three

days friggin awesome bit of a dream route for myself.

And to take a guy like you out there was, yeah, it was just phenomenal.

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