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Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Talking Luft! with Ian Boswell

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Rapha presents Talking Luft! I recently took you on a journey through the absolute torture that was taking part in the beast that is Cape Epic. In case you missed it, it’s an hors categorie mountain biking event, across the challenging terrain of South Africa’s western cape, and it really pushed me to my limit. I thought while I was there, I might as well get out the microphone and turn it on my friend and Cape Epic partner Ian Boswell, and give him the Talking Luft! treatment. We had a nice little chat, spanning Bos’ early interactions with Lance Armstrong, his thoughts on achieving luft, hypothetical musings on whether it’s better to ride with or sans helmet, and whether he finds it important to keep shaving the legs post-retirement. We did a bit of a deep dive on kit selection; how to select your kit post-pro career, which of the former pro kits and bikes are worth keeping, and if you had become world champion during your career, how would you wear your rainbow kit? We took a look into Bos’ current Strava status (hint- it’s solid), favourite riders from the cycling history books, what his dream loop is, and his favourite pro race – which threw up a few surprises, and of course we delved into some of the trials and tribulations that we overcame at Cape Epic. We had a bit of fun chatting in this episode, and I hope you enjoy listening along! Cheers, Mitch

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, good a guy, guys, welcome to Life in the Peloton. This is Talking Luft. We're back again.

0:21.5

A few weeks ago, I was over in Cape Epic with my mate, Ian Boswell, and I thought, well,

0:27.6

Boz, let's pull the recorder out. Let's go to Talking Luft going. It's a Talking Luft

0:33.1

Cape Epic edition. The podcast this year is being brought to you guys by Raffer, our proud partner Raffer.

0:41.1

And on the weekend, I was away doing the Raffer prestige, a cool event that they put on once a year.

0:47.8

Wherever you are in the world, from your clubhouse, your local clubhouse, the one in Melbourne

0:52.5

was up this year in the Twin Cities,

0:55.0

Aubrey Wodonga. It's all about riding new roads with a team, staying together, that teamwork,

1:02.0

getting through the event and enjoying a cold beer at the end. I don't know what it is about these

1:07.3

prestigious, I've done too now and they seem to produce the most nasty weather.

1:12.0

But luckily for me, I had the pro team insulated Gortex jacket. This thing was created

1:18.1

for supreme protection when riding in the worst weather conditions. So I have to thank

1:24.5

the prestige for putting on these crazy conditions conditions which allows me to get to use this

1:30.0

epic jacket. It was one said in cycling there is no such thing as bad weather, just the

1:35.8

wrong clothing and with the pro team insulated Gortex jacket there is no such thing as bad

1:40.8

weather. Yes it's true. I got away with it because of the jacket.

1:44.8

I had a really good time and it was horrible weather up there. Like I said, this is the

1:49.9

Talking Loof, Cape Epic edition and something I took over with me to South Africa for Cape Epic

1:55.6

was my Athletic Greens AG1 travel packs. I got Boz on board and that was the way we started each day. It was

2:02.4

tough racing over there, I can't tell you. And the immune systems were low and lots of people

2:07.4

were actually getting pretty sick. And apart from having a good personal hygiene routine,

2:12.1

we wanted to make sure our gut health and our overall nutrition balance was being taken care of

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