#28 - How To Not Suck At Cycling (Part 1)
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Did you spend more money on your helmet than your bike fit? That could be problem number one, especially considering a bad bike fit can not only hurt your ride, it can destroy your run. It's easy to get sidetracked by the glitzy temptations of cycling gear, but there are many better options for your time and money. Today we discuss a smart and well-rounded approach to being a better cyclist. How To Not Suck At Cycling discusses:
- Choosing the right bike
- What results you need from a bike fit
- Solid Baselines for your training
- Understanding Zones 1-5
- Why you're likely making a common training Zone Mistake
- Training with RPE, HR, and Power Meters
- Picking the right helmet
- Buying a suit
- Hydration set up
- Race Wheels
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friend. |
| 0:08.8 | Back from the pool. |
| 0:10.3 | Sorry for the delay. |
| 0:12.4 | That's all right. |
| 0:13.1 | It's all right. |
| 0:13.8 | I have been taking our How Not to Suck at Swimming podcast a little seriously lately. |
| 0:20.5 | Nice. Sunday swim? Oh, yeah. Saturday swim, Sunday swim. |
| 0:25.0 | Whoa. I'm really starting to enjoy it again and I don't like to |
| 0:30.0 | I like to take advantage of those time periods. As well you should. Yeah and I won't go into it, but let me just say that I'm basically using the |
| 0:42.1 | How to Not Suck at Swimming Podcast as my guide. |
| 0:47.2 | And it's sitting out there for everybody. |
| 0:49.1 | I would hope so. |
| 0:50.6 | Well, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:52.5 | But I'm just saying, you know, I'm reiterating that, you know, even though I have been sort of following that, you know, theory for, you know, since you've been my coach for four years, I, yeah, it's good to have a reminder. |
| 1:04.0 | So you might want to go back and listen to parts one and two and there's a lot of good stuff in there. |
| 1:10.0 | And it's really, as you get better |
| 1:12.6 | or stronger in the water, you can really start executing those little things, and that's the fun |
| 1:18.2 | part to me. |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah, swimming is one of those, especially with how technical it is, that once you kind of start to |
| 1:25.8 | have the ability to master some of the finer |
| 1:29.5 | techniques is when you can just really, really start to see the difference. |
| 1:34.4 | Yeah, yeah, and it's exactly. |
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