Talking Luft! with Luke Rowe

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Rapha presents Talking Luft! Well it’s the last episode of Talking Luft for the year, and I’ve got veteran of the peloton and actually one of my first ever podcast guests from way back in 2016 back on the pod. I’m chatting with Welshman from Team Ineos, Luke Rowe. We sat down while he was in Australia for the Worlds, and got talking all the good stuff – kit, caps, mullets, the best of riders and teams, roommates on race, coffee stops, the good and bad of racing, plus a whole lot more. It was great to hear more about what makes Rowey tick. I hope you enjoy the chat. I want to say a big thanks to all of you out there for listening this year, for sending in your feedback, for getting involved with Life in the Peloton and most importantly for wearing your LITP caps with lots of Luft! It’s been fantastic to speak to so many diverse guests this year, to have a laugh and I hope you’ve enjoyed this season as much as I have recording it. Until next year, put your feet up and enjoy the off season like the pros 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 Listen to my original episode with Luke Rowe on Life in the Peloton back in 2016 here. . . . 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, Official LITP & Paris Roubaix 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 Life in the Peloton’s 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. I grew up watching those highlights and the music became part of my childhood. When I set out to create Life in the Peloton I knew that theme song was what would set the scene and capture the essence of Life in the Peloton. 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.

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0:00.0	It started.
0:03.0	It started. I'm off. I'm only 20k in but I've just pulled over to take my rain jacket off.
0:28.6	Pretty cold. It's about 9 degrees and raining. But the weather gods work in weird and mysterious and wonderful ways, you know, the only day that I'm actually
0:37.8	heading a little bit south, I've got a massive northerly wind, so pumping right behind me.
0:44.2	If this wind goes away the next few days, I've got it right, you know, so what an amazing
0:48.8	way to start. Rainy, cold, but a nice big tar wind, slightly downhill from Landsfield as well. I'm happy to be on the road actually all the little things getting ready and everything my mind was racing but I'm only in the beginning. Let's just keep going. Well, that of course was the episode that I did last week, my Road to the World's,
1:21.6	a big episode, the journey to the world championships, a bikepacking trip, if you will, just my story on the road, you know, doing a thousand K on my own and meeting people along the way.
1:33.3	Go and listen to that. If you haven't already heard it, I've had a great response from that, from everyone who listened, they enjoyed it.
1:39.3	I wasn't sure if everyone would enjoy hearing me babble away the whole way up to Sydney. But we got a
1:45.0	break with speaking to all the people who came out and met me along the way, plus the talk about
1:49.3	beer and of course the weather, the weather gods. They are on my side. That was last week's
1:54.0	episode, the last episode of Life in the Peloton for this season. This is, of course, Talking
2:00.0	Luft and we're back the last episode for this
2:03.0	year, and I've got a cracker. I've got Luke Roe for us this week. If you don't know Luke
2:08.0	Roe, he's from Wales in the UK. He's been riding the team sky ever since he turned pro since
2:14.0	2012, right up until today, well, with Team Inios that it is known as now.
2:19.9	He was a guy that I used to rub shoulders within the Peloton because we sort of cross paths a little bit.
2:25.1	He's a classic specialist. He's a road captain. He's a guy who loves the crosswinds.
2:30.0	They're all the things that I love to do too. So most often than not, we're at the same part in the Peloton at the same time,
2:36.5	not agreeing with each other all the time because we both wanted to do the same job.
2:41.4	But he's a great guy to talk to.
2:43.7	He was the second episode I ever did on Life in the Peloton.
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