S8 Ep185: Life in the Peloton – Hugh Carthy
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Hugh talks about climbing, gearing, the World Tour's toughest mountains, team bus playlists, staying calm in the heat of the moment, pots of tea, butter pies, crumbly Lancashire cheese, the Birdy Brow KOM and much more...
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | we're welcome everyone we're back with life in the peloton |
| 0:29.7 | I'm three quarters of the way through this for us for a spaniard and I've been lucky enough to sit down with my teammate Hugh |
| 0:36.5 | Carfey I want to welcome Lionel Bernie back to the podcast as well. Good day mate. How you doing there? |
| 0:42.2 | I'm good thanks Mitch and I'm really looking forward to this one just before we hear your conversation with you Mitch |
| 0:49.6 | Just paint the scene for us. What where were you chatting? |
| 0:53.3 | What's the hotel being like today? We were chatting in my hotel room where I am recording this right now |
| 0:59.5 | Beautiful little hotel here. We're over in Galicia now and getting ready for the stages over here |
| 1:06.6 | We've got the time trial tomorrow. It was actually quite a wet morning this morning |
| 1:10.0 | So we all jumped on the trainers and did our little blowout session on the rest day |
| 1:14.1 | But actually it find up in the afternoon |
| 1:16.2 | And I went across the other side of the hotel and got my massage over there and it was this beautiful big glass window in my |
| 1:24.0 | Massage therapist's room and we looked out over the coast the rolling waves crushing against the shores |
| 1:29.0 | And we watched the big tankers go past and one of the best massage views I've had and |
| 1:35.6 | My masseur John said |
| 1:37.6 | How much would you be paying for this normally? |
| 1:39.8 | I couldn't put a figure on it, but it felt like I was in a luxurious hotel a way on some retreat getting a massage |
| 1:46.8 | Let alone I was bought back to reality when I came back to my room and open up the page for the the week coming ahead |
| 1:52.3 | So |
| 1:54.3 | That was what happened today. I'm in a happy mood |
| 1:57.5 | I've got a time trial tomorrow, but then I've got I break it down to four hard stages and then the time to roll into Madrid after that |
| 2:04.5 | Before we get into it |
| 2:05.7 | I just have to make a special mention of the way you is riding here. He's really stepped up and |
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