Roadside Reporting At The Tour Down Under with Ian Boswell

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness, Sports

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP The Tour Down Under is done and dusted for another year, and it was an absolute banger. I was lucky enough to get in amongst it right there at the roadside all week and, to make it better, I was joined by my old mate - the Doughboy himself - Ian Boswell. For this episode, I wanted to take you guys inside the Tour Down Under; not just the racing, but the atmosphere around the race and the vibe that gets cooked up in Adelaide every year. The racers lining up for the first time, getting use to their new teams and equipment, the fans at the side of the road, and all the sweet little events that go off each morning out of Adelaide. Ian and I kicked off our week with a big bang, getting stuck into the cut and thrust of the short, sharp prologue from inside the team car! I hopped in the NSN passenger seat to follow Ethan Vernon - who actually went and finished 2nd on the stage, missing the win by less than a second…maybe his DS was a bit distracted? In the paddocks, we got a chance to catch up with some of the riders who’ve come Down Under to start their 2026 racing season. Guys like the new Natty champ Pat Eddy, British up and comer Matty Brennan, the 16 wheeler himself Harry Sweeny, and heaps more. We spoke about the race, as well as some general questions about their seasons and - of course - a cheeky little mini CommuniQuiz to keep them on their toes! Of course, this race is defined by the fans. People have travelled from far and wide to be here - one girl I spoke to even made the journey all the way from Texas in the USA! It was great chatting with people up and down the roadside about their TDU experience - and meet loads of LITP listeners in person. This is a chokka block episode with loads of great little soundbites you only get from being right there at the races live and in person. I hope Boz and I managed to capture the vibe so you can sit back, crack a frothy, and pretend you’re right there under the baking Adelaide sun with us. Cheers! Mitch----more---- This Episode is sponsored by Saily! Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code PELOSURF at checkout. Download the Saily app or go to https://saily.com/pelosurfCheck out our new Substack! It’s a new place for us to go a bit deeper — home to Tom Southam’s Director’s Cuts, my Pelo Journal, and stories from inside the peloton… and a bit beyond it too - https://lifeinthepeloton.substack.com/

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0:00.0	This is Life in the Peloton with Mitch Stocker, brought you by our friends at Map.
0:09.5	Welcome to Life in the Peloton, where listening is akin to mingling with the gods of cycling.
0:25.9	Well, good-day, everyone. I'm Mitch Docker, and we're back. Well, I'm back. I'm back in the studio. It's been a whirlwind. What a big week over at Two Down Under to kick the season off.
0:32.1	It is the right way to kick the season off, I think. It's a bit of a party. It's summer.
0:37.0	Everyone's having fun, and there was some hard racing. And look, you probably heard last week, well, I hope you heard last week. We did kick things off last week with the Race Communique, with our mates, Tom Southern, Luke Derbridge, of course, we caught up in person over there at Two and Under. If you haven't seen that, you've got to go and watch that one
0:55.0	because it's on YouTube. And yes, you probably listen to me going, man, I don't watch podcasts. You know, well, I'm starting to watch podcasts these days. Who would have thought that? I'm going to watch a couple of people talk. Well, this one is especially worth watching because we catch up in person at two and out under it's a once a year thing we get to do and it's fun we're
1:13.0	ribbon each other we're getting into it and of course we have a lot of fun there. So go across and watch that one. If you haven't watched it or listen to it, however you get to it, that was a great episode to kick the season off. But here now we are at Life in the Peloton's first episode of the year. But of course,
1:29.8	we couldn't do it without our major partner, Map. And I love having these guys on board. We
1:35.6	have them on board for the last couple of years, and we're pushing ahead with Map. It's exciting,
1:39.9	and I love working with them not only here at the podcast, but of course on the ground with
1:44.6	all the other stuff we do. And last week was no exception. The pop-up at Adelaide was outrageous.
1:51.8	It was awesome. I'm going to use the word, it was epic. It was epic. They combined with
1:56.2	their friends, my friends too, specialized to make the best pop-up at Adelaide. It was awesome. And in the back room, I got to host The Digger and the Doe Boy one night only with Ian Boswell. That was a really cool night. We got some special guests in. We had Michael Quirkeowski come in. We had Luke Lempertie. He was there too. Of course, Lawrence Pithy. We heard him on the pod last year.
2:18.6	We got him in for the one night only. We had Matt Winson, the Brit, the DS at DSM. And of course, Luke Platt was there too. We got him on the Durnies. We race them on the journeys. They went deep. It was a great night. What a great night. But it was all made much better because of the location and the setup
2:37.0	from map that they had at that pop-up.
2:39.0	It was outrageous.
2:41.0	If you were over there, you would have got to experience too because they have a whole lot going on the whole week.
2:46.0	They've got rides going out with hundreds of riders.
2:48.0	Yet, I'm not exaggerating. Literally hundreds of riders,
2:52.5	sorry, heading up into the Adelaide Hills every morning. It's really fun. You roll back into town,
2:57.9	you get to absorb the atmosphere, have a cold one, watch some racing and then get into the
3:02.1	nighttime festivities. Hang on. I thought there was a race on too. No, there is. It's really
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