Train like a Monk

Slane gave me a call a few weeks back with a pretty simple assignment: “I want to get fit again, can you write me a program.”
After a month off the bike (not sitting on the couch but hiking in Patagonia…) Slane’s numbers are a long way off their best, so in this series we’ll discuss what training we’re using to get back to full fitness and hopefully beyond.
In week 1 we discuss strength training, lactate testing and whether everything needs to be easy in a base build starting from square one.

Australia’s Golden Girl Grace joins the pod to talk about how she trained for Olympic and World Championship Gold in her final year as a pro cyclist.Plenty of golden nuggets of wisdom in this one, Grace is a legend.
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The Aussie couch peloton are still recovering from a whirlwind Tour de France with the revelation of this year's TdF Femmes, Sarah Gigante.

Sarah is an avid listener and former guest on the pod (go and listen to that episode if you haven't already!) and she has put in more requests than most for guests. We thought we'd start with request number one and get the man behind the scenes of her results this season, Dylan Lindsey, on the pod.

Hear the training behind the success of Sarah and many of his other athletes, and most importantly, this man's relationship status.Thumbnail image: Cor Vos
Editing: Terance Hore

One of the most consistent performers in the World Tour. Harps provides great insight into how he has continually improved each year since turning pro, and more recently, how he prepared to win his first Grand Tour stage.
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***Big apologies for my audio on this episode. The recording grabbed the audio from the headphones instead of the mic so it's rougher than Roubaix for this episode***
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Mudgey has been a bit of a journeyman of the sport. Riding for Aussie, Irish, Kiwi and now Chinese teams across a 10-year career to date.

Last year he had his biggest prize money earnings to date by winning the China Pro League.

What is the China Pro League? What's the racing like in China? How's the food? Listen to find out