Talking Luft! with Peta Mullens. S3.E3.

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rapha presents Talking Luft! Photo: Mason Hender Talking Luft is back for another week of cycling style & lifestyle chat and learning a little bit extra about my guest from last week. Last week on the podcast I had Peta Mullens, Australian champion in multiple bike disciplines, talking about her diverse career and following her passion through the ups and downs in the sport. It was a super inspiring chat and I loved hearing Peta's story as well as her new role at Team Roxsolt Liv SRAM. This week with Peta we dive into a bit of fun with Talking Luft – we chat cap style & kit style – where she makes a damning confession about her personal kit collection, her favourite training loop, her favourite race on the road and trail, plus some incredible stories and a war story from her favourite enduro mountain bike race, Tour of East Timor. If you loved her episode from last week you’ll love this one! Enjoy and stay tuned for my episode next week with Cardiologist Andre LeGerche, where we talk heart adaptations in athletes, heart health with exercise and much more. Cheers, Mitch Listen Listen & subscribe to this series on Life in the Peloton at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, GooglePlay, Stitcher or your favourite pod app. Show Notes Watch Peta’s ‘Most Re-watchable Race’: The 2018 Elite Women Val di Sole MTB World Cup: https://youtu.be/n1FsZQht5fc . . . 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. . . . Episode breakdown: 0:00 to 3:00min – Snippet from Life in the Peloton Episode 3 with Peta Mullens 3:00 to 5:00 – Episode Intro 3:00 to 33:30 – Talking Luft with Peta Mullens 33:00 to end – Outro Keep in touch Find all our episodes, LITP news and merch on our website www.lifeinthepeloton.com Listen to our short spin off series Talking Luft presented by Rapha – much like DVD Extras, every second week. Follow us on socials: Instagram: @lifeinthepeloton Twitter: @lifeinthepelo Merch LITP x ÇOIS Cycling: Find the last sizes of the Road Worlds Collection at coiscycling.com. Snapbacks have now been restocked. Shop now! LITP Cycling Caps: Jump over to our online shop to grab one. 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.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	We were on a camp in Melbourne and I just decided I didn't want to do it anymore.
0:27.7	And it was a really hard decision because I felt, again, influenced by the people who had supported me to get to that point.
0:34.5	I was like, well, I owe it to them.
0:36.1	I went to my parents.
0:37.1	I went to my sponsors. I should keep going. But I literally got to breaking point. I was like, well, I owe it to them. I went to my parents. I went to my sponsors.
0:38.2	I should keep going. But I literally got to breaking point. I was waking up every morning crying.
0:43.3	And I was still performing well. That's when I won the under 23 National Road Tile. I was sixth
0:48.1	overall at the championships. I had a podium over in New Zealand at the racing over there.
0:54.9	And I thought, if I'm racing well in winning bike races and still crying every day,
1:01.9	something's really wrong.
1:03.1	And so I just said, no, that's it.
1:05.3	And, yeah, stepped away from the sport for a little while.
1:08.4	That exact moment, who are the people that to help you come to that decision? Like, maybe you came to it yourself. You know, it's really mature decision because not most of us, but I can imagine a lot of people, like you said, you work so much to get to that final position. And you're like, I'm not quite there yet. There's just one more step to go professional, you know. It's just like, I just push through it. Come on. I'm here.
1:29.2	It's like to just go, I'm out. I think there's so many people below you that you think,
1:34.9	oh, what they would give to have this opportunity. Like, don't be stupid. Like, this is amazing.
1:39.8	And my parents actually weren't completely supportive. Like they were like, if you throw this away, like you might not get it again.
1:46.3	You've worked so hard.
1:47.5	Again, really hard again to make that decision.
1:49.5	Yeah.
1:49.9	But Donna Razelinski was actually one of the people I spoke to in depth about it all.
1:56.1	And she was really supportive.
1:57.3	And I suppose I appreciated in that time that there wasn't many women who
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mitch Docker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mitch Docker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.