You are listening to the cycling podcast. Hello and joining you on January the 24th, 2024 that is the 40th anniversary of Apple's first incarnation of the Macintosh

personal computer hitting stores the Mac which New York Times

Tech correspondent at the time Eric Sandburg Dimment said would be destined for

greater things had it been named the Granny Smith after the variety of apples

first discovered by Maria Anne Smith aka Granny Smith in Australia in 1868.

And so we get to our extremely tenuous link to today's episode.

My name is Daniel Freba. I'm the host of this episode of the Cycling Podcast in which we will

set out why it was a golden and delicious edition of Tour Down Under and we'll get to the core

of some other big stories developing in the world of cycling this week.

Joining me to do all of that is the Mustacheo Maestro.

We'll be talking about Mustoches.

Mitch Docker, who has had a very busy week at the Tour Down Under

Mitch, how you doing you're looking quite bronzed, I must say.

Well, yeah, well that's because I did write across the T2U. That's become something for me the last couple of years.

I head out from my hometown here in Lance Field, well Melbourne anyway, not too far away and

right across there. Last year I did it over five days. This year I did it over five days this year I did it over three

I thought it'd be a good idea just to challenge myself that bit more yet I'm

I'm further away from the pro peloton I'm doing less Kays yet I wanted to do it even harder. I'm sick and like

I literally probably 80 k into the first day I was like this was such a stupid idea and of course I made it but it was good like I'm fit.

That's what you got to do. I did all my fitness in three days and I'm back where I used to be.

Well maybe not back to World Tour level but I'm at a good level.

I was going to say inch never closer? Who knows next year?

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