The Best Week In Belgium: LITP LIVE at the Spring Classics

The Best Week In Belgium: LITP LIVE at the Spring Classics

From Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP by Mitch Docker

April 8, 2026 · 1h 27m · Episode 136

About this episode

Mitch Docker takes listeners on a journey through the Spring Classics in Belgium, featuring interviews with riders and insights into the cycling culture.

Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP Guys, as if you need me to tell you, we are deep in the heart of the Spring Classics. My favourite races…hell, EVERYONE’S favourite races. I’ve got myself across to the motherland, in amongst it in Belgium, to soak it all in. I want to take you with me on the road and show you why these races are so special. This week is bigger than any one race - it’s a part of the culture here in Belgium, and it’s woven into their very DNA. Even people who don’t ride get out there at the roadside and watch the classics race by. I want to peel back the layers and bring you along for the ride in a way that makes you think “Holy shit I have to get out there next year”. I’ve been putting this episode together since I arrived last weekend, just in time for Gent Wevelgem or, as it’s now called, In Flanders Fields - From Middlekerke to Wevelgem, and hitting record to capture all sorts of rider interviews, roadside atmosphere, across the whole week through Waregem until the big one; De Ronde Van Vlaanderen. I spoke to some really important characters in the Spring Classic story -both old and new - across my week at the races. Young, up and coming…

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Host: Mitch Docker

Guests: Laurence Pithie, Bob Donaldson

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Places: Belgium

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