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That Triathlon Show

5 keys to running well off the bike | EP#48

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Bike for show and run for dough. A poor run rarely leads to a good race overall. And yet, so many triathletes struggle mightily with running well off the bike. Today you'll learn the 5 keys to having a great run off the bike in your next race, and most races after that. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -The 5 keys to running well off the bike! -How much slower should your triathlon run splits be compared to open running races? -Is your cadence on the bike important for running performance? -The one running biomechanics tip I'll give to all triathletes (despite generally being a bit hesitant to dish out advice on running form...) -How to pace your triathlon runs for different race distances. -The science of running well well off the bike. LISTENER QUESTIONS: If you have questions that you want me to answer on the show or off the show (in an email), send me your question via email or Twitter (contact information below). NOTES: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ SHOWNOTES: www.thattriathlonshow.com Send feedback, questions or just wanna chat? CONTACT me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat."

Transcript

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0:00.0

That Traflon Show, episode 48.

0:19.0

Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome back to that triathlon show. The podcast presented by

0:25.4

Scientific Triathlon.com. I'm your host Michael and today's episode is a solo episode, which is

0:33.5

all about running well off the bike in your triathlon races.

0:39.1

So we've had a lot of interviews recently,

0:41.0

so it's been quite some time since I last did a solo episode.

0:45.7

And also, since the interviews have been running a bit long,

0:48.7

I haven't even been able to answer more listener questions on the show while in the intros or altros as he used to do

0:58.3

a while back just because I don't want to make these podcasts run too long. But that said,

1:05.4

I have been answering them on emails and on Twitter. So just because you don't hear them on air

1:10.3

doesn't mean that you

1:11.2

shouldn't keep sending them in. But today I get to one of those listener questions and it's

1:17.6

such a big and important one that it merits an entire podcast episode of itself. And that is

1:24.4

how to run well off the bike. Simple question sent in by clive from cardiff

1:30.4

wales thank you clive for the question and yeah as i said it's a simple question but we'll take a deep

1:38.4

dive into some of the most important variables for when it comes to running well off the bike.

1:45.8

And I thought that it would be great to start off by just very, very quickly bulleting out

1:53.5

the main points that I will make and then we'll dive into each one of them in more detail.

1:59.6

So the cliff notes, if you want for this episode is

2:02.7

first, practice. You need to practice running off the bike a lot. And second, pays the run and

2:10.4

the bike well. There's a very true saying, in my opinion, that goes, bike for show and and run for dough and that's often the way it is

2:21.2

in triathlon especially in for age groupers many go too hard on the bike but also for the pros especially

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