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Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Talking Luft! with Tom Pidcock. S2. E7.

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In case you’ve not heard of him (which will have been hard), Tom Pidcock is a young Brit in his first year of racing in the World Tour, with Team Ineos Grenadiers. He’s in some major road form at the moment, taking his first WT victory last week at De Brabantse Pijl then second in […]

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And then I remember, this is one one to ask you, I don't know when you remember this, but at some period there, I overtook dad. And dad was no longer the guy I was trying to hang on to. And, you know, if I wanted to go fast, you go get in my wheel, son, and we'd go fast and do the last 10K or something. And then all of a sudden it was like yeah we'd swap turns then all of a sudden

0:37.5

dad was in my wheel and then he couldn't you were the one looking after him when did that happen

0:42.0

for you can you even remember when that transition i'm trying to think when that happened for me

0:45.8

i can't even remember exactly but it was in the first few years i remember well it's always a time

0:51.5

actually that well for me and my dad it was always a time where he was

0:55.5

yeah not looking forward to the day that I was better than him you know it's like soon you're

1:00.6

going to be better than me soon you're going to have to look after me um but I think the time like

1:06.8

how I like we have a leased chain gang every Tuesday and Thursday yeah and actually at the start

1:14.9

of the 2012 Olympics that this chain gang was like seventh on the medal table or something

1:19.2

after the first week of the 2012 Olympics what does that what does that mean well the brown

1:25.3

lees lizzie armist dead and we also counted Ed Clancy.

1:29.8

All their events had already been, so we had two golds, one silver, one bronze.

1:33.6

Ah, right.

1:34.2

So we were seventh on the middle table.

1:38.3

Anyway, so this was, yeah, I remember, like, the times, like, building up for this,

1:43.9

like I would, we'd drive there

1:46.0

and i'd do it i'd turn around early and meet them on the way back and eventually yeah we'd go

1:50.7

around the whole way from home i think that's the biggest measure of when i was you're getting

1:56.4

better than my dad like he would kind of hang on up the up the sheving, we call his hill on the way home.

2:02.8

Like we go all the way around and, yeah, we could do the hill.

2:06.6

And there's probably about 10 guys left and we, we raised the last, maybe 5K to the finish from there.

2:13.3

And then a sprint.

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