S9 Ep126: Life in the Peloton – Magnus Cort Nielsen
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Magnus had another great Tour, finishing strongly with a top ten in the time trial on the final Saturday of the race, and that was a stage I was able to witness in the flesh.
It was great to join The Cycling Podcast for the final week of their Tour coverage because it gave me a chance to see what life is like outside the peloton and on the other side of the fence, so to speak. I learned a lot about what goes on at the grand tours outside our riders' bubble and I have to say covering the race was a lot more tiring than I thought it would be. I really enjoyed my week and hopefully it's something I'll get the chance to do again soon.
I'll be returning to racing myself soon as I head towards the final events of my pro career. Next time out on Life in the Peloton I'll be sharing my thoughts on a recent bikepacking ride I did in Sweden before I headed to France to join Richard and François.
But before all that, though, sit back and enjoy my conversation with Magnus.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We'll get out everyone and this is Mitch Docker now talking to |
| 0:29.9 | you from Life in the Peloton and of course I'm joined with Lionel Bernie and |
| 0:34.0 | it's body great to talk to you Lionel. Hello Mitch it's great to hear you |
| 0:37.6 | actually speaking to me rather than coming through my speakers from the |
| 0:41.6 | Tour de France coverage show air you made your Tour de France and cycling |
| 0:46.0 | podcast debut traveling with Richard and Francois and Kate for the week and I |
| 0:51.2 | have to say really enjoyed I had no doubt that I would enjoy your contributions |
| 0:55.8 | but I really enjoyed your contributions and you had a lot more success in the |
| 0:59.5 | mix zone talking to the riders than I do I can't work out why they would stop |
| 1:03.8 | to talk to you more readily than they do stop to talk to me but I did have a |
| 1:09.2 | lot of fun in the mix zone it was it was really funny and Richard kept saying |
| 1:13.4 | I mean you can't do that you can't you know troll the riders I'm like why not |
| 1:17.0 | that's just what I normally do on the bench so this is exactly the same except |
| 1:20.7 | the best part is I don't have to race with them until sort of two weeks time |
| 1:24.3 | in Turipoll and it was just a really great experience and really eye opening to |
| 1:29.9 | be on the other side of the fence very fatiguing you know I have to admit as |
| 1:34.4 | much as I wanted to say it was an easy job the fatigue caught up with me in a |
| 1:38.2 | couple of days very different fatigue to a high level sportsman because what |
| 1:43.1 | we do is sure it's very fatiguing it's a very intense way and you get a |
| 1:46.9 | lot of recovery but what you guys do is it's a slow burn it's up early it's to bed |
| 1:52.4 | late and it's just a slow burn and I tell you what my body was not |
| 1:56.4 | attuned to that it wasn't accustomed to it so I was I was wrecked I was body |
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