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Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Talking Luft! 2.0 with Ben Perry. S2.E8

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ben Perry is a Canadian pro cyclist in his 5th year of racing World Tour, now with Astana Premier-Tech. He’s a funny guy and as I was riding along with him one day I realised he would be great to have on the pod – especially Talking Luft 2.0. And he didn’t disappoint. This was […]

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0:00.0

Is that what we're seeing at the top end, like, and I don't want to focus too much on the bottom end, which is what I'm sort of talking about, is the guys getting dropped from the Peloton.

0:39.1

That's something as well, but probably the more interesting thing is when we see those differences between the guys who are toe-to-to-to for, you know, two weeks, two and a half weeks, and all of a sudden you see this wheels fall off. They say he's cracked, you know. in your opinion, what is, and this is many, many things could have happened there, but just from a very general point of view, what is

0:43.6

generally happening to the guys who are cracking, and let's talk about the guys at the back

0:47.8

too, the guys who have to pull out of the race, who just can't go on. Is that what's happening

0:52.5

what you're saying, day to day, slowly depleting, and finally,

0:56.6

they crack?

0:59.0

I would guess if we're talking strictly from a dietary standpoint, because like you said,

1:04.0

I mean, they could get sick, there's psychological things, all kinds of things can happen.

1:08.1

But if we're looking at those two scenarios from a dietary standpoint,

1:12.0

I would guess that more frequently that's two different scenarios.

1:15.1

The guy in the back who eventually just falls off and cannot get back

1:21.2

is probably that cumulative day after day just going a bit harder than they're able to replenish.

1:29.3

And that name may not be strictly nutritional. They may be doing their nutrition correctly,

1:33.2

but they don't have the fitness to hang. And what happens is, so they're pushing at a higher

1:38.5

relative intensity, um, than the guys who are able to hang in there, which means they have a higher

1:43.2

nutritional need and they can't meet that.

1:45.1

Right.

1:46.1

So it's kind of a losing equation on the back end and eventually their bank account is depleted

1:50.5

and they're out the back.

1:52.8

The guy on the front who's been there the whole time and just suddenly has this just

1:57.8

kind of comes apart is probably much more of an acute fueling problem that day,

2:04.5

right? So sometimes that's a gastrointestinal problem. We've seen it with guys who get,

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