It's the Spanish rider - I don't remember the name - he called me Nicholas Cage, and
all the peloton call me Nicholas Cage.
My name is Michele Pallini. I work to Astana from this year, it's my first year here
at Astana. This is my seventeenth season in cycling. My grandfather rode the bike, my
father, and me. I wanted to do the soigneur from a child.
The day from the soigneur is long. I wake up at 6.30 in the morning. We clean the car.
We do the cooler and the bidons and water, salt and sugar for the race, we help the rider
in the breakfast, and after we take the luggage, we put it in the truck and we go to the start.
After we go to the feed zone before they start the race, the rider, and after we give them
food we go to the finish line, we wait for the shower for the rider and we come back
to the hotel for massage and dinner. After the dinner we need to wash the clothes. In
this Tirreno-Adriatico is very bad because it rains everyday and there are a lot of clothes
to clean. We finish, I go to bed at 11-11.30. It's a long day and a small night, every
day.
Bars... gels... and cake... one bottle of water... and one bottle for energy drink.
We go to the bus, we prepare some sugar for recuperation for drink after the race. We
go to the finish line and we wait at the line there, and see if we win. We go with the winner
to the podium, we change, and we wait for the press conference and doping control.
He go to the bus and we wait for to know if there are leader or not, and nothing... that's
all.
Good day?
Yeah good day, nice day.