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- Professional cyclists have a reasonable amount of time
on their hands between stages, especially in a race like
the Abu Dhabi tour where they're in the same hotel
every night.
So what we wanted to find out, is what they do to relax.
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What do you do to relax between stages, after races?
- Uh, trying to avoid listening to my roommates
and listening to music.
- What's on the playlist at the moment?
- Just everything, I just put on a playlist, random
playlist and then I'm listening. I'm always open for
new songs, and yeah.
- Leave your suggestions for Andre in the comments
section just down below.
- Normally I try to watch movies, or tv shows, and last
year worked pretty well. I watched, in two weeks I watched
48 hours worth of tv shows. So that was one seventh of my
life. Noting, I would say that's including sleeping
and eating and riding as well. So, it worked well at the
start of the year, so I'm just gonna keep going with that.
- Music, magazines, that's actually what I like to do.
I think two days plenty of time, two hours in the car
being transferred so ...
- What's on your playlist right now?
- Oh a big mix, it really depends on my mood. If I'm
angry, I like to hear rock. If I'm just calm, then
whatever, whatever I feel like really.
- How do you relax between stages? Are you a box set or
books kind of person?
- Box set, I like to play video games. I'm a big
video game man. Getting out of the house. Just, yeah,
I think the usual things. Just relaxing and enjoying my
free time when I can.
- What are the current box sets and video games?
- At the minute we're actually watching an old tv show
That 70's Show, bit of a sitcom, or whatever you call it.
- Before my time.
- Yeah. (laughing) which I'm really enjoying at the minute.
- That's a good question. I might be able to show you.
I'm from the 80's, so I got myself
- Best decade.
- Best decade. Nintendo Switch.
- Wow
- I don't know if you know, cause I'm not into games, but
there is now on the Nintendo Switch.
Doom. Classic
from the 80's.
- Wow
- Yeah, so um back in the old days, ya know. I remember
playing that at school. Back in those days we didn't have
network, we had IR. We used to link laptops in class with
the IR to play multiplayer games. The teacher would
walk in, and the game would freeze, and then you could frag
the other guy. So, I did a bit of that, bit of work on
my laptop.
- A huge surprise to find out that Adam Hansen
relaxes by using electronics.
- Relaxing between stages, I generally, just hanging out
at the hotel. It kind of varies throughout the year.
Right now I'm kind of into reading, so for whatever
reason I've been reading a book for the past few days.
Other times as the season goes on, and as races get
harder and harder, it turns to tv.
- What's the book at the moment?
- Honestly, I don't even know what the name of it is called.
Big really into mystery thriller type books.
James Patterson, Dan Brown, some of those type of books.
- I like to read, but, yeah I reckon reading is the best
way to pass the time, like on a transfer, like today.
Reading is the best.
- What's the current book?
- Actually, today I was just trying to catch what's going
on in the world. Reading the Economist. Kind of boring
but I've been checked out for a while so it's
interesting to know what's going on.
- Now, with my small children, I spoke with them. I see
with Skype or something else.
Talk with my wife. Look at some news.
- Mostly we are on the computers a bunch. Computer or iPad
or watching movies, laying in our beds. Not doing too much
like Schlitz. You are riding your bike, eating, massage
and relaxing. When I'm home I am more busy, but in the race
it's kind of easy.
- I do watch a lot of music videos actually. Gone are the
days in Canada, and same with the states where you
could watch music videos regularly. So I watched a lot
on Vimeo and YouTube, and then listened to a lot of music.
- How do you relax between stages, after races? Are you
kind of a movie, or a box set, or a book kind of person?
- Definitely all of the above. I definitely try to
read a little bit at night before going to bed, it puts
me to sleep, but yeah, I listen to some music, find a good
series to bing out on. Mostly glued to our phones all the
time.
- What's the current book?
- (laughing) My wife was just giving me a hard time about
this. I'm reading John Grisham, The Pelican Brief, which is
a blast from the past. I remember watching the movie
when I was young, but never read the book, and I think
most people in this stage in their life have read every
Grisham book, but I'm a little behind, still picking
my way through them.
- I should have asked you, what music are you in to?
- I like a like a lot of stuff, I like a lot of hip hop.
A bit of electronics stuff, a lot of daft punk influence
music. If you were to say one genre it would probably
be something that falls under, gorillaz and daft punk.
- So quite a variation when it comes to what riders do in
their spare time between stages. Something which must
have changed dramatically over the last decade
or two. Pre-internet and pre-smart phone the only options
really were reading or indeed talking to each other which
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