S9 Ep132: Life in the Peloton – A Swedish odyssey
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
As many of you will know, my team – EF Education-Nippo – has embraced all sorts of cycling events in the past couple of years. You might have followed Lachlan Morton's Alternative Tour de France, for example.
My adventure in Sweden came about partly thanks to our team's helmet and glasses sponsor POC. They heard I was interested in taking on a different sort of challenge and they suggested an self-supported event that takes riders the length of Sweden. It's called the Sverigetempot, a road ride of more than 2,000 kilometres from Riksgränsen in the north to Smygehuk in the south. I joined up with Magnus and Damien for the ride, which took us seven days, and I documented the journey along the way, so I hope you enjoy listening to our adventures.
Cheers,
Mitch
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The theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We'll get over you one and welcome to life in the Peloton. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm here again with Lionel this week to welcome this week's episode. |
| 0:32.9 | Get a Lionel, how you doing? |
| 0:34.4 | I'm good, thanks Mitch, how are you? |
| 0:36.0 | I'm doing very well. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm back again, back from the Tour de France with you guys. |
| 0:41.1 | And this week we've got a bit of a different episode. |
| 0:44.0 | I alluded to it last week. |
| 0:45.9 | I did an event in the start of July called the Length of Sweden. |
| 0:49.2 | And I thought, I'm going to take the recorder along. |
| 0:51.4 | You never know. |
| 0:52.1 | There might be a story in it, something interesting to document. |
| 0:55.4 | And long behold, there has been. |
| 0:57.2 | Now, your team, EF Education, has been doing lots of different types of cycling events over |
| 1:03.7 | the past couple of seasons, not just world tour racing, but lots of individual types |
| 1:08.7 | of riding, Lockham Morton did the alternative Tour de France, didn't he? |
| 1:12.6 | Is that what this is all about? |
| 1:14.1 | Were you just stretching the boundaries of the type of riding you do, Mitch? |
| 1:18.1 | It sort of was about that. |
| 1:19.5 | I think I came into this season with a little bit of a different scope. |
| 1:24.2 | And as everyone's aware, now I'm going to be retiring at the end of this season. |
| 1:27.2 | I thought, why don't I just try and do a few different things? |
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