HINCAPIE OPENS UP ABOUT SAGAN & PARIS ROUBAIX | RDMN CLIPS

1.Modern Pros' Brutal Schedule vs. Sagan's Balance

I feel like the the sport has changed so much that yeah of course we trained really hard back in the day um but these guys are never home I mean they go from race to altitude Camp to race I think one of the top guys I won't mention his name but from the tour of romandy to the Tour of France he was gonna be he's gonna be home four or five days that's it brutal it's yeah it's brutal you're either at at an altitude camp or you're racing and I mean that's hard you know I loved uh my role as a cyclist and I I never took for granted being a professional cyclist I always worked as hard as I could but I feel like I had a little bit of balance where I can come home a bit more than uh normal guys and I was able to come back to the US and spend time at home you know before the tour to France and I feel like that made my career uh a bit more manageable I don't know if I can handle it now where these guys have gone all the time but like that's Testament to what did you 17 to to Francis like you need the balance to last that long and that would be my worry like I was on guest on cyclist magazine podcast last month and they were talking to me about Sagan and they were saying basically Sagan you know the Flop has won the worlds three times I was like if you look at Sagan through a lens of purely Pro cycling you go yeah he's gone off the boil but how much of that is deliberate how much of it's him saying you know what there's other things in my life and I don't want to be like you're saying five days at home in a four month period I I'm happy to pick up a big paycheck I'm happy with a level I have some Legacy already but there's more to life you know I don't know what he's into spirituality personal relationships other hustles he has yeah no that's a great that's a great point I don't know him personally but he definitely was part of you know my generation as I was ending my career where there was a lot more balance involved you were able to come home a bit more than a lot more than now so yeah perhaps we're seeing that where you know he may not want want nothing to do with all these altitude camps and really just not having a life so to speak Ru we can't talk to Mr Hy without talking about Ru it looks [ __ ] stressful on TV to watch my blood pressure is up watching this race on TV like the spee are hitting sections like aronburg forest and like the crash of Mitch Docker had a few years and stuff on it it's stressful to watch how stressful is it to go into that like year after year after year what you have like 17 attempts it yeah yeah every single time you're going in thinking at a point you're thinking to yourself top 10 is not even a result here it's Podium or nothing I'd say yeah yeah no for sure and yeah I'm I'm in actually in the same uh same boat you are when I watch it now it stresses me out I get the sweaty Palms I'm like this is crazy because I remember it so well but when you're racing it when I was racing it I would just go into full like sort of warrior mode where I would couldn't I I made the stress I turned the stress into excitement and and you know and motivation and I knew that without full con concentration in a race like reu there's no chance you're going to do anything and it wasn't going to be fun at any moment was it going to be fun at all but it was going to be you know if you if if you didn't plan out the sections properly and you didn't Envision how you were going to position yourself in your head for instance going into the aronburg that's just the only thing that's the only the things that got me through it was just being able to Envision beforehand when I was going to move up how I was going to save energy while moving up and still entering the Arenberg first and the first Five Guys which by the way in all those 17 years I pretty much always entered the aronberg first in at least top 10 and uh you know that's a kind of a a small victory in itself because it's it's one of the most stressful sectors in all of cycling to arrive in the front and you know I just kind of I found I found uh a lot of uh not not Joy I found a lot of Motivation by being able to always be one of the favorites in that race and you know never took it for granted if you enjoyed this little clip from the podcast you can check out full episodes of the podcast on any podcast platform Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts also you can click up here for another video that I know you're going to love and don't forget to subscribe to the channel see you next day