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Couch Grooves
by Tom Southam | 08/05/09

The hardest part of being a Pro Cyclist in the UK is not the racing at all, it’s all the time you have to spend not racing that can be challenging. You see, in European teams you can’t ever really park up on the couch and flitter away your time because what with there being so many races on, you never know when the cell is going to ring and the caller I.D. ‘Director’ will come up. Meaning your about to be called off at an hour’s notice to go and ride the Tour of Picardie or something.

No, in the UK it’s the knowing that there is at least six whole days before you are back in the trenches and that having such an expanse of time, it’s far too easy to relax back into the sexy leathery comforts of the Chesterfield and play about on Spotify, sampling, creating and doctoring playlists in an effort to get myself off the couch and down the road.

So lucky everybody else, as I have gallantly sacrificed my Friday morning, shelved my ambitions of going to buy the paper and some bread, and have complied a playlist to help get you out the door. This may well come in very handy this month as the Giro will soon be on our TV’s and there will be a whole new range of reasons to stay in the customised grooves worn into the couch.

Playlist

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