Talking Luft with Daryl Impey

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Daryl Impey, a house hold name when it comes to a long standing and well respected pro in the world tour. Daz is a close friend of mine as we had the pleasure of crossing paths, racing side by side and living around the corner from each other and our families throughout my time in Europe. He is closing out a monstrous 16 year career this season! But it hasn’t been without some major set backs and challenges along the way. He has had life threatening crashes, false allegations and teams folding right under his nose. But on the other side we have seen him pull that yellow jersey on at the TDF, become multiple national champion and transform himself from a Domestique to champion leader. Back in 2019 I sat down with Daryl to chat about the ups and downs of his career to that point and learn more about what makes him so bloody resilient! This is a must listen if you haven’t heard it before, and if you have I strongly urge you go back and listen again. Daryl shows me that when you are a pro for 16 years it’s never going to be smooth sailing. That’s what makes a successful pro, someone who can fight back and become even stronger. But now, this week we have Daryl for Talking Luft! I wanted to pay homage to his brilliant career. We chat all the usual stuff but i have spliced a few extra questions in to wrap up his amazing career and to hear about what the future holds. Cheers, Mitch

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0:00.0	I couldn't get a ride in Europe and I was back to racing the local 100k club rides
0:19.0	races back in South Africa. Going from Wilter, going from the year before flying with Lance in his jet to
0:24.6	South Africa, as like Darrow and Lance and we're going here and doing all these fun things
0:29.6	and racing World Tour races to coming back to my local club race and just being like, waking up at five.
0:41.1	Five, the race started at six, because we're waking up sometimes I was four.
0:43.8	And I was just like, what am I doing?
0:45.3	And then I've gone.
0:52.5	And I've also said to my wife's, you know, dad, just before that, like, you know, I want to marry your daughter.
0:54.0	So this is all happened and I've
0:55.0	asked that he'd marry me I've lost my job I'm racing local races and he's like you're gonna
0:59.8	be able to look after it yeah I was like yeah that is a joke but it's probably not really a
1:06.5	joke because I would be asking the same question if I saw this well you this you're just a professional person who's just lost his job is now,
1:13.3	you can see the pattern going.
1:15.4	Like, he's gone from here at his own.
1:17.2	You know, we see going from here.
1:21.4	Well, now you were just listening to the episode I did with Darrell Impi way back in
1:26.2	2019.
1:27.3	You can tell from the audio quality, we had a long
1:29.7	way to go there in life in the Peloton. Guys, I'm Mitch Stocker. This is Talking Luft. And
1:34.9	Darrell, he's a good mate of mine. We had the pleasure of racing together at Green Edge.
1:40.1	We also crossed paths early in our career while we're both spending time in a small Belgian
1:44.1	town called Kelmas. But later on, we lived around the corner from each other. Now, We also cross paths early in our career while we're both spending time in a small Belgian
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