Talking Luft! with Allan (Alby) Iacuone. S3. E01.

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Rapha presents Talking Luft! G’day everyone, Talking Luft is back for 2022! But what is Talking Luft? Well, it’s really just a little extra chat I have with guests that I speak with on Life In the Peloton the previous week. A bit like the DVD Extras, it’s the break away series where I try to find out that little bit more about them and their cycling style. It's a little bit laidback and a lot of fun. This season I've broken the episodes up into 4 topics: Style, Bikes, Culture & About You - with an exciting bunch of new questions for 2022. On last week's episode “How not to train like a Pro," I spoke with my old coach, and returning guest, Kevin Poulton about entering a new era of my life - life after pro cycling - and how I go about training now while still keeping as much form as possible. Both Kev and I had already featured on Talking Luft, so I was searching for a new guest that would fit. Meet local Melbourne cycling legend Allan ‘Alby’ Iacuone. He was previous Australian champion in 1994, rode professionally overseas many moons ago and has continued to hold his form while rejoining the rat race of normal life. He has mastered the 'How to not train like a pro' while continuing to hold pro form! The perfect guest. Alby has a very likeable personality as you'll hear, he is currently the coordinator of the Rapha Cycling Club and is known around the Australian cycling scene as a real local legend - the perfect guy to talk some Luft with. It was great recording at the Melbourne Rapha Clubhouse and I loved hearing Alby's stories. Enjoy the first ep of 2022 and stay tuned next week for a great new episode of Life in the Peloton with Stuart O'Grady. Cheers, Mitch Show Notes Watch the highlights that we chat about for Alby's 'Most Rewatchable Race' - the Tour de France 1992 - Stage 13, it's epic! https://youtu.be/JbDLVTMr0V4 . . . 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. . . . Episode breakdown: 0:00 to 2.30 Snippet from LITP Episode 1- How Not to train like a Pro with Kevin Poulton 2:30 to 6:10 Introduction to Talking Luft presented by Rapha 6:10 to 19:55 Introducing Alby Iacuone 19:55 to 43:20 Talking Luft! with Alby 43:20 to end Outro Listen Listen to this series on at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, GooglePlay, Stitcher or your favourite pod app. Keep in touch Find all our episodes, LITP news and merch on our website www.lifeinthepeloton.com Listen to our short spin off series Talking Luft presented by Rapha – much like DVD Extras, every second week. Follow us on socials: Instagram: @lifeinthepeloton Twitter: @lifeinthepelo Merch LITP x ÇOIS Cycling: Find the last sizes of the Road Worlds Collection at coiscycling.com. Snapbacks have now been restocked. Shop now! LITP Cycling Caps: Jump over to our online shop to grab one. Shop LITP casual Merch anytime online at our store. From casual caps to mugs, embroidered tees, logo tees, sweaters and much more.. Theme Music 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. Subscribe Sign up to Life in the Peloton email updates to get the latest episodes and merch news straight to your inbox.

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0:00.0	The group set out to DeTon30Ks today, you're going to do it no matter what.
0:26.9	For me, that's just a personality trait.
0:29.6	But it also reminds me that you and I throughout a season, we had, as you said, so many mental
0:36.5	bullets where we could reach the limit maybe twice
0:40.3	and that was enough. If we were hitting that limit every six or seven weeks, that would just be
0:44.8	too much. So we sort of knew when to reflect and when to pull back a little bit throughout the
0:50.2	season. But at the same time, I think you kind of enjoyed getting to there because you knew
0:54.5	you'd worked hard and when you get to that point and then you could sort of relax knowing that the
0:58.8	hard work is done but we've reached our limit there how did you know when I'd reached that limit
1:02.6	when I would get those phone calls oh you out in the bike and you'd leave those video messages
1:08.4	basically abusing me asking questions and I thought
1:14.9	okay now it's time to review the training you had to wait to get the call I had to wait
1:21.3	till the girls and left the room because I knew there'd be some nice colorful language in it I can't do this I'm too fatt it. I can't do this.
1:28.8	I'm too fattigued.
1:30.9	I can't just have one day off
1:32.5	and suddenly go out and rip
1:34.7	one minute intervals.
1:37.1	I can't even hold 600 watts and f***ed.
1:40.2	That was the most beautiful thing about the relationship
1:42.3	I think about the coach writer relationship and I've stressed this with a lot of people I've spoken to. Maybe not so much on the podcast. But if any young guy asked me about coaches, whatever I said, it's sometimes for me, it's not necessarily about the science. Obviously, that's a massive part of it, but it's about the connection. And that's something that you and I were able to have that I could speak openly and honestly to you. And I felt like I hope I wasn't complaining every other week. But when it came, you knew, all right, this is, this is real, isn't it? No, look, it's a mutual respect because if I'm going to ask you to go and ride seven hours in the rain tomorrow, I need to have a damn good reason why you're doing
2:17.7	that. And for you to have that confidence and trust that, yeah, there's a reason I'm doing this.
2:22.7	I'm going to go get it done. It's just a big respect from my side as well.
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