S9 Ep153: Kilometre 0 – Aru-vederci
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Instead, the trajectory of Aru’s career changed dramatically, so much so that he would not finish on the podium of a three-week race again. Not only that, but Aru decided before this year’s Tour of Spain that it would be his final race.
In this episode of Kilometre 0, Daniel speaks to Aru about the relief of moving on, and we assess the extent to which his early exit from the sport is a sign of ever more mentally exhausting times in the pro peloton.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to K-0 by the cycling podcast powered by super saviants. |
| 0:09.3 | Energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:15.6 | Ever since early in his career, there has been an image of Fabio Arro that has often flick |
| 0:28.7 | it in my mind's eye, while seeming at odds with what Adal has, or perhaps the operative |
| 0:33.6 | tent is now had, become. |
| 0:36.2 | Adal painted the picture for me himself a few years ago. |
| 0:39.4 | In it, he's sitting in the departure lounge of Bergamo's Orio Alcereo Airport waiting |
| 0:44.3 | for his flight back to Sardinia as per his erstwhile weekly routine. |
| 0:49.2 | He has a tinfoil tray containing his pasta supper in one hand, a plastic fork in the |
| 0:54.3 | other. |
| 0:55.3 | He's physically exhausted from the weekend races and weary mentally when he remembers |
| 0:59.8 | that tomorrow morning he'll be in the classroom back in Villa Chidra, reciting verb tables |
| 1:04.9 | or doing algebra. |
| 1:06.3 | But he's also happy in that way only youth and its limitless potential affords. |
| 1:12.0 | He's 17 and a life of more adventure, travel, sacrifice, unimaginable financial and emotional |
| 1:19.3 | rewards but also soul destroying costs is only just beginning. |
| 1:24.0 | 14 years on that journey that life is now about to end and Adal is happy again, though |
| 1:29.8 | this time also conscious of why. |
| 1:32.0 | His announcement just before the vulter that this would be his final race as a professional |
| 1:36.1 | came out of the blue only in the sense that he's just 30 years old, hadn't talked publicly |
| 1:41.3 | about imminent retirement before and he's also curiously currently enjoying his best |
| 1:46.3 | form for several years. |
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