Talking Luft! with Esteban Chaves.S3.E10

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Rapha presents Talking Luft! Talking Luft is back this week with the smiling assassin – Colombian Pro Cyclist Esteban Chaves, riding for EF Education First EasyPost. I had him on the pod last week to hear his incredibly inspiring and tough story of how he got his start in the World Tour – coming back from a nasty crash – then eventually going on to win stages in the Giro and Vuelta and wearing leaders jerseys in both. He's a seriously great guy and is loved both inside and out of the peloton for his inspiring character, his positive attitude and gratitude. Plus he's also great for a laugh, and I absolutely knew he'd be awesome to get Talking some Luft with. And he doesn’t disappoint. The guy’s got style! How does he wear his cycling cap? ‘Pre-Race breakfast’ or normal breakfast? Favourite race food? How does he have his coffee? Favourite ever rider? Best & Worst part during a race? Where does he sit on the team bus? And so much more! This was a good bit of fun & I hope you enjoy hearing a little more about Chavito. I know I did. Enjoy guys! 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 Episode breakdown: 0:00min to 1:05 – Snippet from my episode last week with Esteban Chaves – ‘The Power of Determination and Belief’ 1:05min to 3:00 – Intro 3:00min to 29:10 – Talking Luft with Esteban 29:10 to end – Outro . . . Find out more about the Esteban Chaves Foundation at https://funchaves.org/en/ . . . 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. . . . 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 Merch Paris-Roubaix Caps are back & available to shop. Get your cap collection growing – jump over to our online shop to grab one now. 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	Yeah, you're crossing the finish line.
0:23.8	I was on tears.
0:26.1	My family was there.
0:27.1	Like, I'm saying sorry to them.
0:29.9	Like, man, I lost.
0:31.1	I'm sorry.
0:32.1	You know, like, but after a few hours or a few days even, you realize man this is big you know like wow this is awesome
0:43.3	you finish volume in one grand tour like yeah when i crashed it in trafeuileuela if someone gave me a
0:52.2	contract and told me your biggest thing in your life is finished 15 or 50 in a director, I would sign. I never thought I can't finish second, you knowday, guys. That was Esteban Chavez, the smiling assassin, the lovable Colombian.
1:22.4	A great episode with him last week. And yes, I have him here for Talking Loof this week.
1:27.3	I'm Mitch Stocker. Welcome to Life in the Peloton. This year, as you know, is being brought to you
1:32.7	by Raffa and now I've just got back from an event that I was down this weekend. You know I'm
1:38.1	doing all these events this year, these gravel events, mountain bike events. Or last weekend,
1:43.2	I was just doing the dirty pig and whistle.
1:45.2	Down here, not too far where I live in Victoria, in Creswick, cold Creswick, apparently,
1:50.9	but it was beautiful, a beautiful autumn day, and Raffa sponsors that event as well.
1:56.2	They picked out an event, an awesome event, and got behind it.
2:00.0	Why are you probably wondering,
2:01.3	well it's about this community. Something that I'm discovering now, this beautiful thing about
2:06.2	these events is the cycling community. You might be wondering, well, weren't you just riding
2:11.3	all these years anyway? But I can tell you, it's so different to the world tour. The world tour is its own beast, but being
2:19.6	back in this community, this gravel scene, this event scene, I'm falling in love with cycling
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