In the second of our episodes from La Vuelta, Max Schachmann joined us from the team’s rest day hotel in Asturias.
He told us of the fighting spirit within the team despairs two dropouts due to illness and how he is seeing the development of his young teammate Junior Lecerf, who this weekend climbed in to the top 10 on GC.
He also tells us how his daughter has cycling inspired names for the family cat and her little brother who is due to be born this January.
Today’s episode comes to you from the J-Hotel in Torino, which is T-Rex Quick-Step base for the start of La Vuelta 2025.
And how could we possibly think of starting the final grand tour without speaking to today’s guest, one of the most enigmatic and popular riders in the peloton, Mikel Landa
Bert Van Lerberghe has been one of the most important – and underrated – figures in the Wolfpack’s sprint train for years. But this summer, he finally gets his chance to ride the Tour de France.
Recorded just hours before the Grand Départ in Lille, Bert joins us from the team hotel to talk about:
- His long-standing bond with European Champion Tim Merlier- What it feels like to make his Tour debut at 32
- Life as a lead-out man- Balancing personal sacrifice with team success
- His earliest Tour memories and what he’s looking forward to most
- How the team is balancing two goals: sprint wins with Tim and GC ambitions with Remco Evenepoel.
This is a candid and insightful conversation with a rider who knows what it means to work in the shadows — and finally step into the spotlight.
Welcome to The Wolfpack Howls, the official podcast of Soudal Quick-Step and AG Insurance–Soudal pro cycling teams.
Today’s episode is the 6th in our special series highlighting the work we do with the Netherlands data specialists, Transfer Solutions.
Data has become a huge part of professional sport—especially in cycling. We can now measure everything from heart rate and power to distance, speed, vertical velocity, and countless other metrics. But the real question is: what do we actually do with all this information?
That’s where Transfer Solutions comes in. They help us turn raw data into real-world performance—insights that make our riders some of the best in the world.
To explore this further, we’ve joined forces with De Dataloog, a podcast dedicated to the stories behind data. Over this six-part series, we’ll dive into how Transfer Solutions supports our teams in training, nutrition, performance evaluation, and talent identification.
In the final episode of this series, we talk about the very emotive topic of food and fuel with our nutritionist Ben Price, who tells us how Transfer Solutions are helping our riders stayed topped up to perfection.
Welcome to The Wolfpack Howls, the official podcast of Soudal Quick-Step and AG Insurance–Soudal pro cycling teams.
Today’s episode is the second in our special series highlighting the work we do with the Netherlands data specialists, Transfer Solutions.
Data has become a huge part of professional sport—especially in cycling. We can now measure everything from heart rate and power to distance, speed, vertical velocity, and countless other metrics. But the real question is: what do we actually do with all this information?
That’s where Transfer Solutions comes in. They help us turn raw data into real-world performance—insights that make our riders some of the best in the world.
To explore this further, we’ve joined forces with De Dataloog, a podcast dedicated to the stories behind data. Over this six-part series, we’ll dive into how Transfer Solutions supports our teams in training, nutrition, performance evaluation, and talent identification.
In episode 5 of The Wolfpack Howls x De Dataloog, Tim Merlier shares how performance data is helping him fine-tune every detail ahead of the Tour de France.
Welcome to The Wolfpack Howls, the official podcast of Soudal Quick-Step and AG Insurance–Soudal pro cycling teams.
Today’s episode is the second in our special series highlighting the work we do with the Netherlands data specialists, Transfer Solutions.
Data has become a huge part of professional sport—especially in cycling. We can now measure everything from heart rate and power to distance, speed, vertical velocity, and countless other metrics. But the real question is: what do we actually do with all this information?
That’s where Transfer Solutions comes in. They help us turn raw data into real-world performance—insights that make our riders some of the best in the world.
To explore this further, we’ve joined forces with De Dataloog, a podcast dedicated to the stories behind data. Over this six-part series, we’ll dive into how Transfer Solutions supports our teams in training, nutrition, performance evaluation, and talent identification.
In today’s episode, we sit down with Soudal Quick-Step’s head coach Koen Pelgrim to talk about how the relationship with Transfer Solutions came about and how it has changed the way that training and rider’s programs are planned.
The Wolfpack Howls & De Dataloog - Ilse Pluimers
Welcome to The Wolfpack Howls, the official podcast of Soudal Quick-Step and AG Insurance–Soudal pro cycling teams.
Today’s episode is the second in our special series highlighting the work we do with the Netherlands data specialists, Transfer Solutions.
Data has become a huge part of professional sport—especially in cycling. We can now measure everything from heart rate and power to distance, speed, vertical velocity, and countless other metrics. But the real question is: what do we actually do with all this information?
That’s where Transfer Solutions comes in. They help us turn raw data into real-world performance—insights that make our riders some of the best in the world.
To explore this further, we’ve joined forces with De Dataloog, a podcast dedicated to the stories behind data. Over this six-part series, we’ll dive into how Transfer Solutions supports our teams in training, nutrition, performance evaluation, and talent identification.
In today’s episode, we sit down with AG Insurance Soudal rider Ilse Pluimers who talks about how data has allowed her to structure her training, racing and nutrition plans
Welcome to The Wolfpack Howls, the official podcast of Soudal Quick-Step and AG Insurance–Soudal pro cycling teams.
Today’s episode is the second in our special series highlighting the work we do with the Netherlands data specialists, Transfer Solutions.
Data has become a huge part of professional sport—especially in cycling. We can now measure everything from heart rate and power to distance, speed, vertical velocity, and countless other metrics. But the real question is: what do we actually do with all this information?
That’s where Transfer Solutions comes in. They help us turn raw data into real-world performance—insights that make our riders some of the best in the world.
To explore this further, we’ve joined forces with De Dataloog, a podcast dedicated to the stories behind data. Over this six-part series, we’ll dive into how Transfer Solutions supports our teams in training, nutrition, performance evaluation, and talent identification.
In today’s episode, we sit down with our CEO, Jurgen Foré, to talk about the role of data at the highest level of the sport—including how it’s used to shape the overall strategy of our teams.
The use of data has long been a hot topic in professional sport—none more so than in cycling. Today, we can collect a huge range of metrics: heart rate, power, distance, speed, vertical velocity, and many other numbers and variables. But this raises the real question—what do we do with all this information?
Fortunately, our team is backed by Dutch-based data specialists Transfer Solutions, and we’re excited to share how they transform raw data into actionable insights that help our riders become some of the best cyclists in the world.
To tell that story, we’ve teamed up with De Dataloog, a podcast dedicated to exploring the world of data. Over the next three weeks, we’ll release a special podcast series showcasing how Transfer Solutions supports our team in areas such as training, nutrition, performance evaluation, and talent identification.
As AG Insurance Soudal head to their third race in Spain in nearly as many weeks, The Wolfpack Howls sits down with Mireia Benito.In a fascinating chat, Mireia talks about her love of racing in Iberia, how she made the transition from basketball to cycling, and her studies cancer research and how that shark pose came about!
We record this episode in the lead up one of the most exciting days in the whole of cycling, perhaps the one day outside of the Tour de France that a race transcends not just cycling but also in to the wider world of sport. Its a day like no other, where the peloton take on 259km, which is laden with 30 cobblestone sectors, each with there own myths and legends of races gone by.
We are of course talking about the Queen of the Classics, the Hell of the North, no other than Paris Roubaix.
Our guest today is no stranger to a a cobble stone, having rode the junior Paris Roubaix in 2019 and if fresh from his debut at the Ronde van Vlaandren last Sunday, the one and only by Luke Lamperti!
Luke tells us about this difficult start to 2025 as he overcome a knee injury, but has ridden strong since. He also reminisces about his 10th place in the Junior Paris Roubaix in 2019, riding the legendary Carrefour de l’Arbre. He also tells us what his perfect Roubaix Sunday will look like and what he expects from the rest of 2025.
This Sunday is the Ronde van Vlaanderen - a day unmatched in the sporting calendar of Belgium.
Amongst the narrow farming roads and cobbled bergs that the riders will tackle in the race, lie legends and myths from the historic editions, that dates back over 100 years.
The man that perhaps personifies Flanders most amongst our current roster of riders is Yves Lampert. Growing up near Izegem, Yves went to watch de Ronde every year with his family and it is one of the races that inspired him to become a professional rider.
In this episode of the Wolfpack Howls Yves romanticises about those days and that the race means to the Flemish, the highs lows of his 11 seasons with Soudal Quick-Step and what we can expect from this Sunday’s race.
This weekend is another landmark in women’s cycling as we see Milan San Remo added to the women’s calendar. There is quite a debate going on in cycling at the moment as the Primavera Rosa, which ran between 1998 and 2005, took place on the same course as this famous race, but this is the first time that a race branded as Milan San Remo will take place for women and run alongside the men’s race.
In the podcast we get to know Gladys who rejoined the team at the start of the year, and we found out how she has been welcomed in to the Wolfpack family. She also discusses her recent recon of the Milan san Remo course, and tell us how she came to have a unique nickname.
On Today’s episode, we have Valentin Paret-Peintre.
The enigmatic French man joined the team this winter and he sat down with us in our hotel lobby ahead of the Ardeche and Drome one-day races this weekend. He talks about the welcome he has received by the ever growing Wolfpack family.
Valentin also gives some fascinating insight in to why he feels is a better stage race rider than a one day racer, giving details than many of us may overlook, and what winning a stage at last year’s Giro meant to him, as well as how has looked up to many of Soudal Quick-Step’s star names both past and present.
Casper Pedersen is the latest in a long line of Danish riders that have been involved with Soudal Quick-Step pro cycling.
A talented rider, Casper was very successful early in his career with the team, winning the Figueira in 2023, and showing battling performances in many races. He has also proved to be a loyal teammate, putting in tireless shifts of work for others.
In this episode, recording during the UAE Tour, he tells us about how he came to love cycling, the Danish connection within the team, what its like to work with the likes of Remco Evenepoel, Mikel Landa and Tim Merlier, as well as his hopes for 2025
Today we have a first on the Wolfpack Howls - our first returning guest, Kim Le Court.
When Kim joined the show in August, she was preparing for the Tour de France Femme.
In this latest pod, Kim tells about her experience at the Tour, frustrating end to the season because of injury, what she learnt in her first year as a professional rider, and what she is looking forward to in the season ahead, which starts at this week's UAE Tour
Today we will be taking a different direction on the show, in that we will not be talking to a past or parent rider but a member of the team’s staff.
The role of a cycling soigneur is one of mystery to some outside of the sport. More than just giving massages they are literally the carers or assistants to the riders of team, helping them with logistics, making sure they are fed during and after races, as well as often being a confident during those moments of solitude on the massage table. In the case of our organisation, they are the backbone of the team with many of them being with us since its inception over two decades ago.
David Geeroms has been connected with Soudal Quick-Step for nearly a decade, helping first as a freelance soigneur, and then joining full time. David can often be seen on the finish line of some of the world’s biggest races, and worked with Remco Evenepoel during his successes the Olympic Games and World Championships, amongst many other races.
David tells us about how he went from working in a bank to turning his passion in to looking after some of the world’s best cyclists
A very special edition of the Wolfpack Howls, as we speak to Justine Ghekiere
Justine took the peloton by storm in 2024, winning the QoM jerseys at La Vuelta Femenina, Giro d’Italia, and Tour de France Femmes, while also taking a famous victory stage 7 of the French race.
In this chat, the effervescent Justine tells about those achievements and how they have changed her life, her journey from a personal trainer riding a static bike during Covid to winning stages on the world’s biggest stage, experiencing the Olympic Games Village and much more.
Happy new year and welcome to the Wolfpack Howls 2025!
As the calendar turns, we have some new additions to the Wolfpack, and we kick off our year by meeting one of our new riders.
Pascal Eenkhoorn will make his debut for his team at the Tour Down Under in January, having joined us this winter. In this chat, recorded at our December training camp, he talks to us about his love of sport and cycling in general, including darts and speed skating, how he likes to play video games, and some surprising anecdotes about lawn mowers!
Paul Magnier had one of the most impressive World Tour debut seasons in living memory.
Having made the step up last winter, the 20-year-old frenchman from Grenoble, won 5 UCI races, as well as taking two stages of the Giro d'Italia Next Gen, while representing our Devo team.
In the latest episode of our podcast, he tells us about how he fell in love with cycling, despite the competition of tennis at which he was very good. He also tells us what it was like to meet the Wolfpack for the first time and how Julian Alaphilippe helped to calm his nerves, and how the experience of Yves Lampaert helped him to take our team’s first win of the 2024 season
