The Race Communiqué: 2025 Grand Finale

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP It’s been a long season, but we’re here, we’ve made it, it’s the final pod of 2025! I’m joined by EF sports director, Tom Southam, and Jayco Alula pro cyclist - and Aussie national road champion - Luke Durbridge, for one last Race Communique to wrap up the podcasting year. I wanted to kick off by running through the season we’ve just witnessed. There’s so much racing going on from January at the Tour Down Under right the way through to Lombardia just last week, it’s easy to forget just how great the racing has been. Durbo, Southam, and I discuss our favourite wins of the year - some quite obvious ones and some that you might have forgotten about. Then, we go through some quick-fire awards: best kit, worst kit, most overhyped rider, biggest loss to the peloton, and more! Of course, we’ve got our regular PeloChat - where Durbo rounds up all the retiring riders this year - and Talking Tactics - where old mate Southam gives us the final scores on the doors for this year’s relegation battle, which was thrilling right down to the final day of racing. What does WorldTour promotion mean for UnoX? We’ll have to wait and see… But, for the season finale, I wanted to give the CommuniQuiz WorldTour status for this episode and let my guests…I mean co-hosts…take a segment each. This is a bumper quiz that’s peppered throughout the episode, so listen closely and play along at home. Guys, the monthly Communiques have been a real highlight of the year for me. Catching up with Southam and Durbo, having a yarn about the racing, and - of course - some great banter has been great fun, and I hope you can hear how much we love recording these episodes. Thanks to Tom Southam and Luke Durbridge for joining me every month for these episodes. Their insight and expertise makes the Communique, and I can’t wait to have them back after the off-season to kick off 2026. Guys, it’s been a hell of a year. Thanks for listening to the Race Communique and all the other podcasts we put out here at Life In The Peloton. Put your feet up tans crack a few frothier this winter, and I’ll speak to you next season. The Race Communiqué is brought to you by TrainingPeaks! Track, plan, and train smarter - just like the pros. Get 20% off TrainingPeaks Premium now at trainingpeaks.com/litp I’ll be heading to Adelaide this January for the Santos Tour Down Under - chasing the racing, riding the bunches in the morning, and soaking up all the summer vibes the city has to offer. Hope to see you there. 🎧 Timecodes 0:00 Intro 08:57 Race Recap & Quickfire Awards - Best kit, worst kit, most overhyped rider & more 38:19 Communi-quiz Part 1 45:14 World's Quickest Pelo Chat 49:47 Communi-quiz Part 2 54:47 Talking Tactics - Southam breaks down the relegation battle 1:07:29 Communi-quiz Part 3 Cheers, Mitch

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0:00.0	Lads, boys, we're here.
0:17.5	We've made it to the end of the season.
0:20.3	This is the final race, aka the final recording.
0:24.0	Last Communique, Durbo, Southern.
0:26.7	Welcome.
0:27.3	Great to have you on.
0:28.4	How are you, Southern?
0:30.5	Good, mate.
0:31.6	Good.
0:31.9	Ready for this.
0:32.5	This must be the punishment race then if it's the last one, right?
0:35.5	This is the one you're making us do.
0:38.5	This is the Moods the Land Jiro in the wet you know I don't mind Muntzalian I I didn't mind finishing
0:43.9	about that race cup a putta capellan do you ever do you ever hear about that race yeah yeah
0:48.9	I remember puta that's the race you want to finish on because it's actually a festival at the
0:53.3	end oh yeah it's a bit it's a Kermese they turned it I because it's actually a festival at the end.
0:54.8	Oh yeah?
0:56.7	It's a bit, it's a Kermis.
1:00.3	They turned it, I think it's back as a Kermis, but it was at 1.1 for a while then.
1:05.2	I finished, um, I finished there one year and you, we just crossed the Ryan and Bert, Bert Dabacher and I, we got to crate of beers and my Dutch teammates, nothing against them,
1:11.5	but they didn't want to have a beer. So, um, you know, I'm going to pay for a beer, you mean? No, we were giving them for free. They just didn't want one. They still didn't want one. Wow. They really committed. Yeah, and so we just like those cross season starting in a week probably. I don't know why. I'm just thinking now why didn't they want a freebie? It does. It's very strange. But yeah, we,
1:28.7	we launched straight into it.
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