S11 Ep142: Rootin’ Tootin’ Van Vleuten!
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Rose sits down with Van Vleuten herself to talk about the things that shaped her as a rider and how she’s finding post-retirement life. And Van Vleuten reveals what’s next for her both personally and professionally.
We also look back at the ways in which Van Vleuten shaped the cycling world: from her winning-against-the-odds mentality to her extreme training regime. To help us decipher this part of her legacy, Denny speaks to her Movistar teammate Katrine Aalerud who continues to be directly inspired by Van Vleuten's approach to racing. Aalerud also offers up her insight on what it is like riding in service of one of the greatest cyclists of this generation and what Van Vleuten is like off-the-bike too.
Plus, we dig back into the archives to hear Richard Moore's interview with Van Vleuten's coach from May 2020. Richard talks to Louis Delahaije about how his unique approach to training unlocked Van Vleuten's continual success. The nature of her training now being one of the most important parts of her ongoing legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast Femina. Well, hello, hello and welcome to, well I should say, a special cycling podcast feminine, not though they're all not special, they're all special, but this is even more special than normal because today we're doing an Anamee Van Flutin special which was something I promised a few episodes ago and I think maybe when I blurted that out I hadn't actually planned on doing it but now here we are doing an Anamee-Gran Flueton special and I'm |
| 0:46.2 | joined for this by Denny Gray or Densmore Gray I said this week I was going to start calling you |
| 0:50.7 | Densmore didn't I Denny? |
| 0:53.0 | Well, yeah, tell the listeners why. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, yeah, otherwise it's just totally confusing. |
| 0:58.0 | Well, yeah, this will be only interesting to a very small proportion of listeners for whom women cycling and |
| 1:07.1 | golf history they're in the middle of that Venn diagram if you're in the middle of |
| 1:10.3 | this Venn diagram you'll be very interested to know the 1933 winner of the |
| 1:14.9 | open was a Denny a Denny shoot who was actually Densmore shoot so if you're in that very |
| 1:22.0 | minute club then there you go. |
| 1:24.4 | There's a really interesting fact for the day. |
| 1:26.6 | But you were interested, Denny. |
| 1:28.1 | I messaged you straight away, because I thought I know someone who'd be very |
| 1:30.8 | interested in this. |
| 1:31.8 | Well, I was interested interested but it's all |
| 1:33.2 | about my name so I have a very selfish interest but I'm quite taken with the |
| 1:38.8 | name Densmore I don't mind if I'm a that's my adopted name from now on. |
| 1:43.2 | Or is that going to be like your formal name or when you're feeling a bit more kind of |
| 1:46.4 | frisky or a denny or when you're a bit more sort of business you're a dens more? |
| 1:51.1 | That's the vibe it gives me. Okay, well, I'll get to know you think |
| 1:56.1 | Denny is a frisky name, Rose. Okay, well you're Den's more today because we've got |
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