FattyCast with Phil Gaimon: Pro Cyclist, Author, Straight Shooter, Man About Town
An Accountability Note from Fatty: Today I weigh 168.0 pounds, so I’m down three pounds since I started the accountability project. Yay! Also, yesterday The Hammer had the day off work and I had a busy morning, so instead of any TrainerRoad, we did an awesome mountain bike ride in Corner Canyon.
New FattyCast Podcast: Phil Gaimon - Pro Cyclist, Author, Straight Shooter, Man About Town
Here’s something fun you can do this weekend: listen to The FattyCast, featuring Phil Gaimon.
Phil’s a cyclist with the Cannondale pro cycling team. He’s also the author of my favorite book about being a pro cyclist: Pro Cycling on $10 a Day.
But we don’t talk much about that book in this podcast. That book is old news. But we do talk about his next book, and where the stories come from and how he remembers them.
We talk about toxicity in pro cycling. And safety. And cheater fatigue. And how pro cycling can be both exciting and safe.
We talk about his own podcast – Real Talent, With Phil Gaimon.
We talk Jon Vaughters…and begrudgingly acknowledge that Vaughters may know what he’s doing.
We talk about phil’s eponymous gran fondo, which is called the “Gran Cookie Dough,” and I ask him what the deal is with cookies anyway.
And we talk about other stuff too. You’re going to really like this conversation.
I swear it.
Links You Can Use
In this FattyCast, we refer to a number of sites, all of which you should probably visit or at least know about:
- Phil’s website: PhilTheThrill.net
- Phil’s Fondo: The Malibu Gran Cookie Dough
- The place where you can find Phil’s super new podcast, among other great stories from the pro peloton: thepelotonbrief.com
- Phil’s Twitter: @philgaimon
- Phil’s Instagram
How To Listen
OK, I don’t actually have any guidance to offer on how you should listen to things. If you don’t know how to listen, that’s a problem you need to address, but it’s out of scope for this blog.
However. I am totally prepared to offer you all the information you could ever possibly need for downloading and listening to this episode of the FattyCast:
Comment by ScottyCycles | 04.8.2016 | 8:52 am
Love Phil! His podcast is excellent as well.
Comment by Jim | 04.8.2016 | 9:11 am
and future Roubaix finisher, we can hope. Fatty, this is a big score! Can’t wait to listen.
Comment by Lin | 04.8.2016 | 10:29 am
Just ordered Phil’s book for my son, who’d like to a be pro cyclist. Not sure he has the requisite $10 a day to do so, though. Lol.
Comment by GeistOnABike | 04.8.2016 | 12:16 pm
Just curious – no episode of The Paceline this week? Checked yesterday and today in my iPhone podcast and no goodies…
Comment by Tom in Albany | 04.8.2016 | 12:17 pm
This is a fun listen, Fatty! Phil is an interesting guy and I think I’m going to ask for his book for my b’day in June.
Comment by leroy | 04.11.2016 | 8:24 am
Accountability note: 159 lbs. But my legs feel like cement.
In honor of the Paris-Roubaix, my dog found some cobblestones for us to ride.
Don’t understand how he could claim I DNF’d. I felt finished.
How anyone actually races on that stuff is beyond me.
Hope you’ll do a follow up with Mr. Gaimon.
Comment by Jeff Dieffenbach | 04.11.2016 | 8:45 am
Phil got some announcer time, but probably not the type he wanted. He went down on what looked like a safe right-hander, speculation was dust from the cobbles that had gotten carried forward to the pavement.
Didn’t look too bad, hope he’s okay. I see that he DNFed, hopefully not because of that.
Comment by leroy | 04.11.2016 | 9:02 am
Phil also got some time in the break away. Pretty cool.
Comment by Shannon Day | 04.13.2016 | 9:32 pm
Strong! Nice work Elden and Phil.
Comment by John Dunn | 04.16.2016 | 4:55 pm
Been a fan of Phil’s for a while, have the book already. Great listen and similar to your YouTube browsing, this took me over to his podcast and I knocked off 3 in 2 days. Thanks for all of your podcasts, will put comments in iTunes soon too.