I'm I'm going to be. Welcome, everyone.

We're at Life in the Peloton here, and I've got my co-host today, Lionel Bernie, on board,

but I've got him on board for the whole podcast.

He's over there in France, and we're going to be discussing the Tour de France today.

Welcome, Lionel, to your first official full episode of Life in the Peloton.

Thanks very much, Mitch.

I'm honored to be a fully fledged guest, although I'm going to be turning the tables on you

because really you're going to be answering the majority of the questions that have come in from some of your listeners, some of our listeners, and also I've got some questions of my own. But I'm here on the rest day of the Tour de France. We're in a hotel in La Rochelle and I'm looking around the room. It feels like I've unpacked absolutely everything that I brought with me for the three weeks and I've got all my stuff on the surfaces.

I'm not too proud to admit. I'm not the tidiest of people when I'm on my own.

And it just made me wonder about your rest day routine during the grand tours, what it's like.

You know, do you like to get the travel bit done the night before so you get a

full day in the hotel on the rest day? Well, yeah, I was just getting casting my mind back to that,

just as you were asking that question. And one thing that just popped into my head, one thing I

always loved to do was exactly what you said, do the travel before. And often my wife would

come and visit me the night before the rest

day and she would be staying close by and that meant I would be able to catch up with her on the rest

day. So you'd come down, you'd hopefully not get in too late and that was always a day. I'd put,

if you had your team attire required any kind of dressy clothes that was because pretty much

all the time, all you're wearing is track suit pants, team t-shirt, track suit top, and then

cycling gear.

And you live in those clothes day in day out.

So the night before the rest day was like my day to sort of of you know spruce it up so what i'd do is

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