S9 Ep17: Life in the Peloton – On the road with Tom Scully
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
I was planning to travel from Girona to Belgium with my EF Education-Nippo teammate Tom Scully so I thought it would be a great idea to take all of you on a road trip with us asa we headed to the first classics of the season.
As you'll hear, we had a bit of a false start because our COVID-19 tests were a couple of hours out of date for the Belgian regulations so we had to go back home, get another test and do our Omloop Het Nieuwsblad recon ride on Spanish roads instead.
The journey gave me a chance to find out more about Tom and particularly his career path, which has taken him the long way round, from New Zealand to the US, to Britain then to the Drapac team which merged with Cannondale and eventually became EF.
Listening to him talk was a real reminder of what it takes just to get to World Tour level for some guys and what Tom said about embracing the lifestyle of a pro rider off the bike, being organised, coping with the travel, dealing with your plans being changed at short notice and not letting it eat into your mental and physical energy really resonated with me – especially this weekend!
So, hope you all enjoy the pod. I'm off to Strade Bianche this weekend for what will be a very different appointment with the white roads to the one we had last summer. Until next time, take care,
Mitch
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| 0:00.0 | We'll get everyone and welcome to Life in the Peloton. |
| 0:29.9 | This is another episode I'm sitting here with Lionel to preview this episode. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to the preview. Hello Mitch, how you doing? |
| 0:37.1 | I'm doing well actually. I've recovered. I had the opening weekend. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm back into racing. I'm into the full racing calendar right now. |
| 0:44.9 | I've had the head-vulk or head-news-bladder. I keep calling it that race. |
| 0:49.0 | I don't know why it's something wrong with me. |
| 0:50.8 | Head-news-blad, Kernobrossos Kern, just a couple of days ago. |
| 0:54.6 | The week before that I had Hood-Var, which certainly really shocked the system. |
| 1:00.4 | This weekend was a shock, but not as much as I thought it would normally be. |
| 1:05.4 | Back on the cobblers, I mean, head-vulk for listeners who are perhaps a bit newer to cycling. |
| 1:09.7 | It's been called head-news-blad for a number of years now, |
| 1:12.6 | because the head-news-blad newspaper, which runs the race now, |
| 1:16.2 | took over the old head-vulk newspaper, which founded the race. |
| 1:19.7 | I think just after the Second World War. |
| 1:22.9 | Like a lot of races, stage races and one-day races, |
| 1:26.6 | started by newspaper people. |
| 1:29.0 | So, yeah, if people are a bit unsure of why it's got this strange name, |
| 1:34.7 | Omloop-Head-News-Blad, basically means Circuit-Head-News-Blad. |
| 1:38.3 | But it goes around all of the flandering climbs, doesn't it? |
| 1:41.9 | They called it the mini tour flanders. |
| 1:45.0 | And, well, it's not all that mini, is it? |
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