#694 – How To Not Suck At Cycling - Part 5
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today is all about saving watts and energy on the course but gaining as much as 10 minutes in your Ironman bike split. This is basically technical ways to become a better cyclist. We look at riding bumpy roads, preparing better for the course you're racing, and how to get better at handling. We also look at why your bike fit may be costing you major watts and how a more comfortable position can get them back. We talk about deep wheel rims and when you should or shouldn't use them. We get into short course vs. long course approach. We talk about tires and the right PSI, along with how you can find what's perfect for you and your bike.
Topics:
- Riding Bumpy Roads
- Relax your grip
- Not about forcing, it's feeling
- Getting all the fitness out of yourself
- Ride Outside
- Sturdy and strong courses
- Ride similar terrain to race
- Hill Repeats
- Soft pedal your neighborhood and work on corners
- Sight your angle before you get to the turn
- Best money spent on Free Speed
- Short course - more aggressive
- Long course - a little more lax
- Lung constriction in aero
- Fall into your bike position
- Position change to save Watts
- Wheels - Deep rims vs. Shallow
- Tires and PSI
- Gator Skins vs. GP 5000
- PSI Charts
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back. |
| 0:18.9 | Let's talk a little cycling today, buddy. |
| 0:22.2 | We shall. We shall. It's June 15th, the year, 2000, folks, with the board. |
| 0:28.1 | You'll us, impression on the podcast, episode 600 and 94. |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah, and it's perfect timing. I rode the Wisconsin course this weekend. |
| 0:39.1 | Went back to the scene of the crime, man. |
| 0:41.7 | I was going to say, did you have like, I know you guys went and rode the course last weekend or the loop. |
| 0:47.1 | Did you have some, like, were you dealing with it okay? |
| 0:50.1 | Did you have some flashbacks or you just wanted to get that first run out of the way and remind yourself that it is in fact one of your if not your favorite courses outside of the the tough cold, |
| 1:00.2 | windy and rain experience you had last year in Army, Wisconsin. I'm not going to lie, I had a low level |
| 1:04.6 | anxiety all week and I don't know why. I think it was more because I just hadn't been out riding this year. |
| 1:12.1 | I've been mainly on a trainer. |
| 1:14.2 | But I got up there and it was a perfect day and a little bit windy, but just, you know, |
| 1:19.3 | overcast maybe like 80, 75, 80, something like that, perfect weather. |
| 1:24.2 | And I was once again reminded of how iconic that course is and to this day it's still my |
| 1:30.6 | favorite ride um not last year but normally when it's nice weather that course is just it just does |
| 1:38.9 | not disappoint and uh i got to tell you one of the things that I really, it was interesting because last |
| 1:48.9 | year in the end of that race, my upper body was absolutely just destroyed, shelled, and, |
| 1:55.0 | you know, cold. |
| 1:56.1 | And it is a bumpy course at times. |
| 1:59.6 | And but this time I got out there, and plus I've been dealing with a wrist injury, |
| 2:03.6 | so I was a little nervous about how that was going to affect it. |
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