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Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Talking Luft at the Vuelta! Fred Wright, Daryl Impey, Luke Plapp & Luke Durbridge

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Rapha presents Talking Luft! Well, the Vuelta a España has come to an end, but I managed to sneak in some time to get talking luft with the pros on race. And I’ve got a fresh batch of Vuelta-themed questions as we chat the hilarious intricacies of the Vuelta and Grand Tour racing. I caught up with Fred Wright, Daryl Impey, Luke Plapp and podcast favourite Luke Durbridge and asked them about cap style, racing in the rain vs. heat, their art of getting bottles from the car, grand tour saddle sores, some hilarious on-race scenarios and much more! This was a great laugh as always and I hope you enjoy the listen as much as I did. Cheers, Mitch Listen Listen & subscribe to this series on the Life in the Peloton website, at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, GooglePlay, Stitcher, Youtube or your favourite pod app.  Show Notes . . . This episode is brought to you by Rapha, makers of the world’s finest cycling clothing & accessories and the worlds largest cycling club, RCC. Find out more about Rapha: their kit, their club, their events and awesome clubhouses at rapha.cc. . . . Merch Talking Luft and Official LITP casquettes are back in stock. Shop now! Shop LITP casual Merch anytime online at our store. From casual caps to mugs, logo tees, sweaters and much more.. Keep in touch Find all our episodes, LITP news and merch on our website www.lifeinthepeloton.com Listen on all good podcast apps, and now on Youtube. Follow us on socials: Instagram: @lifeinthepeloton Twitter: @lifeinthepelo

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0:00.0

Thank you. I'm going to be. I'm I'm All right, Darrell Limpi, here we are.

0:26.6

We're at the Voile-to-Spania, my old favourite race, and you're at the second rest day, the last rest day, you've got the last week ahead of you.

0:34.6

You're in your 11th grand tour, 15 years as a pro. You're the ripe old

0:39.8

age of 37, mate. How does it feel? How has it been over there? How's the old Vuelta going,

0:44.3

buddy? I'll tell you, I've had a hard Walter. It hasn't been easy, man. It's, especially the race

0:50.8

has been flat out. The starts have been nuts. The battle for the points is there. All that nonsense in the background. And then we've still got like the heat has been, I've been unbearable here actually. I love the heat, but I wouldn't mind getting to some colder situations. But yeah, the pace has been on. The guys are, it almost feels like a different sport to when I started my grand to a career. You can't think you can say that. Like it's just different. Like there we used to let a break go and because here it's like every day is an opportunity and like there's so many guys that won something out of this race, you know? Can you give me in a short sentence to describe your feelings, your sensations, your emotions from this year's for Walter.

1:29.1

One short sentence.

1:30.3

I guess I'm just saying on the limit.

1:32.2

On the limit, mate.

1:33.8

What?

1:34.0

In many ways.

1:36.9

Mentally, physically, tired on everything.

1:39.5

What about if you could do one short sentence to describe the Peloton's feelings and emotions from this for Walser. Zero patience with anyone. Really? Oh man. There's just like people are shot. Yesterday I saw teammates just shunning at each other because one guy was like saying it was a nuts time. And he was, where were you? Where were you? You didn't cover the break and I just came straight out of the

2:00.9

ass. He's like, I'm just getting me at the back. I was just like, oh man, people are fighting

2:05.3

at the end of the season nearly. Oh, people are done. Well, that was just a bit of a snippet from last week's episode that I did on the Vojara Spagna.

2:26.3

My favourite grand tour, I did love that race. It's just finished last week and we spoke to a few guys there.

2:32.3

Luke Plap, he's on his first grand tour. He's an Australian.

2:35.7

He hails from Brunswick Cycling Club, my club. He's a Neo Pro doing his first grandee,

2:41.2

like I said. Then on the other end of the spectrum, you've got the South African Daryl Impi.

2:46.2

Good to hear him back in the mix. He's had a big injury last year, missed the Grand Tour.

2:51.6

He also missed the Tour de France this year because of a COVID test right beforehand.

2:55.6

So to hear his opinion again also about being back in a grandee was very interesting.

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