S8 Ep148: Life in the Peloton – Dr Kevin Sprouse
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Dr Kevin Sprouse is the medical director of Mitch's team, EF Pro Cycling, and in a fascinating conversation he talks about the daily routine for a team doctor working in professional cycling.
What does a team doctor do day-to-day? How does a doctor decide when to encourage a rider to push on despite an ailment, when it's safe to push on with the pain and when to decide it's time to call it a day?
Those of a squeamish disposition should be warned there's some quite detailed discussion of an injury that all cyclists, from pros to amateurs, can succumb to – saddle sores.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | e |
| 0:26.2 | G'day everyone and welcome to Life in the Peloton. I'm Mitch Docker and I've got |
| 0:32.7 | Lionel Bernie here joining me this week to introduce this week's episode. G'day Lionel, |
| 0:37.3 | how you doing mate? I'm good thanks Mitch. I'm out of quarantine after my trip to the |
| 0:42.7 | Tour de France had two weeks in which I wasn't allowed to leave the house and yeah it was |
| 0:48.0 | say it was a long two weeks I have to say but I'm free now, free as a bird. Well good mate you did |
| 0:53.5 | tell me that there was a possibility that you were going to go to the Giro and then I thought about |
| 0:58.2 | it and I was like oh hang on that's another two weeks quarantine after that as well and then the |
| 1:02.3 | Vuelta another two weeks so it's probably maybe change your decision about that. It has a bit yeah |
| 1:09.0 | by gather you are off to Spain for well you're in Spain anyway but you're off to the Vuelta in a |
| 1:15.4 | couple of weeks time is that right that's how things stand at the moment. That's right yeah so it's |
| 1:19.7 | going to be the last race of the year and it's one of my favourites I've sort of clicked ticked |
| 1:23.8 | that one off a few times before. It's going to be a hell of a lot different this time no heat |
| 1:28.7 | and more or less running into Christmas Eve but nevertheless it's another race and I'm looking |
| 1:35.0 | forward to getting a big race in my legs before this season finally finishes but before we get |
| 1:41.0 | going I have to introduce this episode I've got Dr Kevin Sprouse who's the team or the head team |
| 1:46.8 | doctor on EF education first. He's an American a great guy and there's sort of be great to sit |
| 1:53.0 | back and have a chat to him about the ins and outs at the daily job of a team doctor but also I |
| 1:58.6 | wanted to get some tips off him some tricks of the trade so I got everyone to send some questions |
| 2:03.8 | in and I formulated sort of some questions myself so I hope you enjoy this one guys sit back and enjoy |
| 2:10.6 | Dr Kevin Sprouse. |
| 2:25.5 | Well welcome everyone life in the peloton and this time I've got the team doctor Kevin Sprouse |
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