Is the grass greener on the other side with this idea of like being out as like awesome what's the reality

like what is it like moving on giving up the routine of cycling how have the relationships changed

it's not life's a bitch no no no but the difference is when you're you're groomed to be a pro cyclist,

like you're in it, you don't realize how easy you have it.

You don't have to plan anything.

Everything's done with you, send you your plane ticket.

You just got to grab the train or the taxi to get to the airport.

Hotels there and you can complain all day about the bad food.

And it's like, you don't have to deal with anything. Like here in Girona is over 100 pros. So when it

comes that you have to deal with the consequences by yourself and your daily life or, oh shit,

I got bills to pay. got like reality catching up it's

challenging it's fun because you yeah it's responsibilities but being a cyclist I miss this

the ease of like everything is ready I just got to focus on one thing. But it's what made it boring for me.

I needed more.

I need something to occupy my brain.

I needed something to occupy my downtime.

And racing as an amateur in France, the first thing they tell you is like when you're

not training, you have to be sitting down, resting and not doing anything.

And I'm like, no, I'm like no I'm resting when

I'm having a stroll in Barcelona checking out the city I'm going out for a nice easy dinner

or I'm cooking for friends being busy and I always been more effective and better performance when I was busy than when I was doing the job 100% sitting down and waiting for the next training and staring in the fridge.

Well, good-day guys, and you were just listening to the episode I did last week over at the cycling podcast about retirement.

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