8 Weeks to Leadville | How I Gained 14 Watts (and Lost 7 lbs!) | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 543
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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(00:00:00) Welcome!
(00:01:10) Coach Jonathan’s Leadville Race Preparation
(00:06:03) Jonathan’s Sub-8hr Pacing Plan for Leadville
(00:11:01) Leadville Nutrition and Hydration Strategy
(00:17:42) Leadville Equipment and Apparel Choices
(00:28:28) Pete’s Tips to Combat Negative Racing Tactics
(00:46:50) How to Sleep After Late Night Training
(00:53:46) How to Be a Better Climber
(01:01:12) Conclusion and Final Tips
Pete Morris from Free Lap Collective and Coach Jonathan review Jonathan’s his training data leading up to his Leadville race, including how he increased his power by 14 watts and dropped 7 pounds, as well as his Leadville pacing plan and nutrition strategy. They discuss strategies to handle negative racing tactics, effective recovery techniques after late-night workouts, and optimizing performance on long, steep climbs. They also address an athlete's challenges with hyperventilating on steep climbs and provide actionable training advice to improve performance.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm Coach Jonathan Lee in person. |
| 0:04.5 | In person. |
| 0:05.2 | Pete Morris from Free Lap. |
| 0:06.4 | What's up, Pete? How's it going? Good, man. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it's funny because we live in the same place. But when you have kids and then you have all crazy lives, we just never see each other. We're here right now, though. Yeah, that's it. That's it, exactly. |
| 0:01.0 | You got to take advantage. |
| 0:01.8 | That's it. |
| 0:02.7 | We're going to talk today. |
| 0:03.8 | We're going to talk today. |
| 0:41.0 | We're going to actually, we asked a question last week to Tobin-Oorten-Blaude all about race tactics and how to handle negative racing when you're the marked rider. And Pete actually listened to that as well. And I wanted him to take some notes because I was, I really wanted to get Pete's take on this too. So we're going to discuss that. We're also going to discuss, like, a few things you can do after late night workouts and, like, science-backed approaches and not science-backed approaches. |
| 0:45.3 | In-practice approaches. |
| 0:47.5 | And then finally, we'll finish this one off, and we're going to talk about an athlete |
| 0:52.5 | specifically that's asking, like, why can't I do well when a climb is making me push and repeat over and over? So we're going to analyze their file, look at it. We'll throw on some screenshots so you can see it. And we're really going to talk about that repeatability and that sort of thing. Pete, I save the question for you because you're the repeatability beast. Well, we'll see what I can do. Yeah, yeah. Before we get to that, though, |
| 1:11.7 | I do want to talk about because as of the publishing of this podcast, I'm probably in the air on an |
| 1:16.9 | airplane at this point, going over to Leadville to race in a couple days. Because you just qualified. |
| 1:22.7 | Yeah, I did. It's amazing how that works. I accidentally qualify. |
| 1:29.2 | The odds were really long. |
| 1:31.3 | It was like the odds on the bet that Primos Rogelich would crash in the tour. |
| 1:34.0 | Not wear short socks. |
| 1:35.2 | And he didn't crash in the tour. |
| 1:37.7 | That had to be the longest odds he could have seen. |
| 1:40.1 | Yeah. |
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