S8 Ep200: Explore | Utterly Brilliant with Timmy Mallett
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The host of Wacaday, the Wide Awake Club and Mallett's Mallet, Timmy was never seen without his trademark colourful glasses and trusty sidekick, a large foam mallett.
In 2018, he rode the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela and he wrote about the very personal reason for making the trip in his book Utterly Brilliant, which is part travelogue, part memoir.
Lionel caught up with him to ask him about his journey, what cycling means to him and why his brother Martin was one of the biggest inspirations in his life.
Explore by The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Explore by the Cycling Podcast brought to you by IWalker. Flexible |
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| 0:18.3 | Welcome to Explore. I'm Lionel Bernie and I'm with Hannah Trude again. Hello Hannah. |
| 0:31.1 | Hello Lionel. How you doing? Have you been adventuring, exploring, riding your bike? |
| 0:37.1 | I have actually. This week, Oli and I set off mountain chasing again. But one a lot closer |
| 0:44.8 | to home this time. On a morning ride loop that I do, you can look across and on the horizon, |
| 0:50.2 | you can see this mountain called Montserrat. It's one of those mountains that's been quite |
| 0:55.6 | magical for me. I see it and I'm like, God, I want to go to that mountain so much and ride |
| 1:00.2 | over to it and everything. I've been thinking that for the last four years. Finally, this |
| 1:05.6 | week, on a very cold Tuesday, the temperature has dropped significantly in Barcelona. We set |
| 1:11.5 | off on 150k ride nearly. We got to the top of the mountain and it was absolutely spectacular. |
| 1:19.5 | It did not disappoint at all. Excellent. You're riding and mountain hunting |
| 1:25.6 | with Oli becoming a regular thing, Hannah, because last month's episode of Explore, we heard |
| 1:31.4 | your adventure to Montvon 2. You're long awaited, adventure to Montvon 2. We've had some |
| 1:35.7 | lovely feedback about that episode, which featured not only your ride, but Richard Moore's |
| 1:40.1 | ride, Ian Boswell and also Felicity Kloak. It was a celebratory mashup of people getting |
| 1:46.4 | out on their bikes and exploring. In some cases, not terribly far from home, Richard rode |
| 1:52.0 | out and back from his new base in Northern France. I was really pleased that episode seemed |
| 1:57.2 | to go down well with people. I've had some lovely comments back on Twitter and on Instagram. |
| 2:03.2 | It was really nice and it felt good to feel that you've inspired people to start and |
| 2:09.0 | think about planning adventures for next year as well, which was exactly what we wanted, |
| 2:14.2 | wasn't it, really? Absolutely. We're a couple of weeks away from Christmas |
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