THE ROADMAN
CYCLING PODCAST

with Mattias Reck — Head coach at Lidl-Trek and a former professional rider; has personally coached Mads Pedersen since 2017 along with a group of the team's WorldTour riders

Mattias Reck breaks down the training philosophy behind world champion Mads Pedersen — recovery capacity, consistency and why copying pro hours fails.

with Sam Impey — World Tour performance nutritionist and researcher in carbohydrate metabolism; works with professional cyclists including Tom Pidcock and Filippo Ganna

World Tour nutritionist Dr Sam Impey explains a new study confirming most cyclists fuel wrong — a whole-week pattern, not a gel problem on the bike.

Your body makes ~80% of the drag, not your bike. Here's when aero is real free speed for everyday riders, when it's a waste of money, and the $0 fixes first.

The Tour de France began as a publicity stunt in a newspaper war born of the Dreyfus Affair. How a feud over a paper called L'Auto created cycling's biggest race.

with Mads Würtz Schmidt — 2025 European Gravel Champion and Traka winner, 2026 Unbound Gravel 200 champion, racing for Specialized Off-Road

Mads Würtz Schmidt won the 2026 Unbound Gravel 200 in 9:14:51 with a solo ride through brutal mud. He breaks down the winning move, the late mechanical, pacing and tyres.

Armstrong lost all seven Tour titles to USADA in 2012. Ullrich, who also doped, still holds his 1997 win. The evidence and why no one took the jersey.

The overlooked TrainingPeaks number, aerobic decoupling, that reveals your durability, why two riders with the same power finish so differently, plus the fix.

The 1998 Festina affair, retold. Willy Voet stopped at the border with 400 doses of doping products, and how it engulfed Richard Virenque and the Tour.