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Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Race Radio: Peloton Gossip with Emma Norsgaard Bjerg

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP G’day, everyone. We’re well into March, and the Spring Classics are calling! We had an absolutely storming opening weekend, and Paris Nice has just wrapped up; which means we’re in for a treat over the next few weeks as we get to enjoy four of the five monuments PLUS a whole heap of other amazing one day races.  One of the things I love about the races at this time of year is that most of them have both a men’s and women’s edition; so we get to enjoy twice as much racing over the cobbles and bergs of Belgium and Northern France! Now the boys over at Race Radio have cooked up a banging episode this month; they’ve bagged an interview with one of the most exciting riders in the women’s pelo. A Danish superstar who’s already got herself a stage win at the Tour de France, and is no doubt knocking on the door of a massive result this Spring after a move to Lidl Trek in the offie; it is, of course, Emma Norsgaard Bjerg.  Here’s what the lads had to say about this month’s ep: At LITP’s Race Radio, we (Harry and Stu) love riders with big personalities, and in our opinion there’s none bigger – and more fun – than Emma Norsgaard Bjerg.  We were delighted to have the Lidl-Trek pro from Denmark on the show this week. We talk about her epic Tour de France Femmes stage win in 2023, her love/hate relationship with the cobbled classics, ‘Playstation mode’ training, peloton gossip, and more. Emma is a rare example of a pro cyclist unafraid to show their emotions and weaknesses, expose the difficulties of the sport as well as celebrate its good sides, and we hope that you all enjoy listening to her chat with us! Cheers, Harry and Stu. Guys, this is a great listen. Harry and Stu do a great job of getting Emma to really loosen up and be really open in her interview - I was honestly so impressed. They have a heap of fun, and I know who I’m going to be rooting for at the races this Spring. I hope you enjoy this month’s Race Radio, and the Spring Classics to come! This episode is supported by our friends at JOIN. As a listener to the pod you can get a risk-free 1-month trial. Visit join.cc/litp to check it out and sign up. Cheers! Mitch   Chapters 00:00:00 – Introduction & Catch-up 00:05:00 – Guest Introduction: Emma Norsgaard 00:06:45 – Emma Joins the Show 00:08:40 – Tour de France Stage Win Recap 00:11:00 – Changing Teams and Motivation 00:18:00 – The Cobbled Classics 00:20:15 – Dream Wins and PlayStation Mode 00:25:20 – Emma’s Podcast ‘The Gossip’ 00:29:40 – Wrap-up with Emma 00:30:06 – Harry and Stu Reflect on the Interview 00:32:10 – Race Round-Up and Chat 00:37:00 – Weather Talk & Classic Racing Moments ----more---- The Life in the Peloton book is OUT NOW! Get your copy now exclusively at maap.cc! Can’t wait for you to read it. Where do you sit in the PELO? Come and join the Life in the Peloton membership.

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0:00.0

Here we go.

0:09.0

Let's take advantage of this.

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I'm Mitch Docker at this is Life and the Peloton's Race Radio.

0:21.6

Over to you.

0:22.9

Hello everyone, wherever you're listening.

0:25.0

Sounds like I'm starting a sort of morning breakfast show.

0:28.2

No, this is Life in the Pelotons Race Radio.

0:30.9

I'm Harry, your car host, along with Stu.

0:33.7

Hello, good morning.

0:34.7

Good evening.

0:35.3

Good afternoon.

0:35.9

Whatever time of day it is with you, it is a radio show, but it's in time and space and on the internet. Welcome. So what's going on, Stu? What is going on? The racing is properly underway now, isn't it? What's happening? We're in the thick of it. It's almost hard to keep up, to be honest. I mean, it certainly is if you're putting out the sort of power that people gana is, but it's almost hard to keep up to be honest. I mean it certainly is if you're putting out the sort of power that people Gana is. But there's been lots of racing, hasn't there? But we'll talk about that later on this week. We have our first guest, which is quite exciting. Our first proper guest, because obviously we had Mitch on in episode one, but he's our old mate. He's sort of our boss now as well. so we kind of had to do that, didn't we really?

1:28.7

So that'll we kind of had to do that, didn't we really? Yeah. So that will be coming up. We'll also talk about, yeah, Milan San Remo, which is also happening this weekend. We've got Torano Adriatico that's just happened, Parinise, Trafeo Binda, so many good races happening. But more to the point the good weather's finally coming here,

1:46.0

well, you know, to a point where you live, Stu, up in Scotland. We've seen the sun. There's still four degrees, but we've seen the sun. Have you been riding your bike? Have you been braving the cold? I have. I've been out, actually. I've been out three rides this year. I've got a local legend on Strava. Can you believe it? I can't. I definitely

1:45.2

can't. That must be a marketing ploy. No, I've been riding my bike. I'm actually going to ride the Hebrideon Way next month. So I've been sort of trying to get my, not so worried about my legs, but I'm trying to get my arse used to the saddle. But, you know, rides are always better when you're a bit fitter and I mean I suppose that leads us to we've got our first

2:04.0

sponsor Harry. used to the sandal but you know rides are always better when you're a bit fitter and I

2:01.7

mean I suppose that leads us to we've got our first sponsor Harry yeah and it's a real

2:07.2

one it's not an imaginary hamburger stole in in Belgium no it's join cycling who are an AI

2:14.5

powered cycling coaching app and if you're anything like me and you're aware that being fit makes riding your bike feel better, but you can't really be bothered to do the work of figuring out how actually to get there in a way that means that you don't burn yourself out or any of these kinds of pitfalls that, you know, because training's not, it's not easy. If it was easy, we'd all be super fit and flying all the time, wouldn't we? Amazing. So it uses the power of AI to help be your sort of coach essentially, right? Yeah, it's this got app on your phone. You put in your goal, whatever that might be. mine was just to be less slow. You tell it how

2:51.7

available you are, how much time you've got. And even for me, when I've done, have a lot of time, because I've got two kids, it still manages to come up with training plans. And I've been using it for the last couple of weeks and a little green swooshy things going up. It's making me feel goods, you know, like a, and I went out for a ride yesterday. It was flying. It was great.

3:09.3

Excellent. I mean, out for a ride yesterday. I was flying.

3:07.8

It was great. Excellent. I mean, as you know, Stuart, I am quite dubious about training. I've never

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