THE SHORT ANSWER
Lachlan Morton, ef education pro cyclist, alt-racing pioneer, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast 2 times. Here's where Morton lands on Zone 2 training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS LACHLAN MORTON?
Lachlan Morton is an Australian professional cyclist who moved from a conventional WorldTour road path into EF Pro Cycling's alternative and Far Beyond programmes. His verified record includes the 2021 Alt Tour, the 2024 Unbound Gravel 200 win, a 12-day Tour Divide ride and the 14,200km Around Australia record. His Roadman interview is valuable because it explains the motivation behind that change in his own words. The personal-cost and training-by-feel claims are Morton's account; current team status, distances, dates and results are checked against EF and UCI records.
MORTON ON ZONE 2
Morton’s key positions on Zone 2 training.
- Remains an EF Pro Cycling athlete on the 2026 Far Beyond programme; he did not retire from professional cycling.
- Won the 2024 Unbound Gravel 200 in 9:11:47 and finished second in the 2025 Unbound XL.
- Completed at least 14,200km around Australia in 30 days, 9 hours and 59 minutes in 2024.
- Rode roughly 5,500km during the 2021 Alt Tour, including stages and transfers, reaching Paris five days before the peloton.
- Says the personal cost of conventional road performance stopped feeling worthwhile; this is his first-person explanation, not an official cause.
IN MORTON’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Lachlan Morton’s appearances on the podcast.
“I was very good on the road and performing at like a very high level it was to the detriment of like a lot of other things in my life. I had to really sort of put the blinkers on and just focus on what I was doing and be pretty pretty selfish and pretty locked down to make it happen. And that was just like weighing it up. It wasn't worth it to me.”
“It's an obsession with the performance element and I think a lot of it is driven by industry because it's something to sell. They can sell the gels, they can sell the tires, they can sell the skin suits and like it's a an easy like well-trodden path in bike riding. As opposed to trying to sell like — well not even sell but just like push the enjoyment and lifestyle factor and what it can be.”
“If you look at the whole reason like gravel kind of took off was as a counter to that road culture that was already that. And you can sort of see this like history repeating itself and you know just like the way people speak about it and that this kind of resentment around it. You can sort of see it happening again.”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Lachlan Morton covers Zone 2 training and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Lachlan Morton say about Zone 2 training?
Lachlan Morton, ef education pro cyclist, alt-racing pioneer, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast 2 times. Here's where Morton lands on Zone 2 training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Morton's main point on zone 2?
Remains an EF Pro Cycling athlete on the 2026 Far Beyond programme; he did not retire from professional cycling.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Lachlan Morton on zone 2?
Morton discusses Zone 2 training in this episode: "Lachlan Morton: Why He Left Road Racing | Roadman Cycling".