Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson hello and we are going to answer more of your cycling and traffic on related questions today you can submit them to us at trainer road calm slash podcast and we will read every one of them that comes through and we put them in Jonathan well. Yes true sorry yep. We yes. We read them I you guys read them through proxy. That's exactly. Um, and

then we actually we have a meeting where we go over all the questions that we put in we sort we research do all that stuff and so whole process.

We judge or judge your merit. I'm going to say we know all of us off the top of our heads. Yeah. I wish. Yeah. No, we do we do put in a lot of research into this stuff too. So especially Chad I should say I don't put in as much and Nate Nate puts into fair amount though. So um, study.

He's really Chad. I say, Hey Chad, remember that study. He's like, yeah, I remember that study. Then he goes that's like a way to do it.

Nate, we have a few things to cover before hand. Yep. Go ahead. Two more job positions. We filled the engineering positions. Thanks everyone for applying. We got one podcast listener and user. Oh, cool. Awesome.

Onto our team. Really, it's awesome to be able to communicate that way.

Because you don't have to tell them all the everything's in cycling. Right. Yeah. And then what we're now hiring are two new designers and I would love to get podcast or podcast listeners or trainer users are just cyclists in general.

As part of the design team. And I believe they're trying to hire in the Folsom Sacramento area. But if you're really cool remote will work to

And we're we're having two positions ones like a pure product designer. And then one is a like a HTML CSS less kind of implementer designer.

Still the ability to design web pages and stuff. And you can apply for those at trainer.com slash jobs. The post might not be up for a until next week. This is the

March 1st today. Exactly. 2018. But you can always look for jobs there. And there's an RSS feed.

And you can apply to to get notified when new jobs come up.

Absolutely. The other thing that we should cover before we get into what we're really going to be digging into today is you race your mountain bike again and you bumped yourself up.

I did. I raised an expert. Yeah. And I'm swear they'll be takeaways from this. I guess. Yes. Oh, and that's what we always try to do. We try not to give you like the race report that nobody really cares about. We try to

start a breakfast. Basically, I moved up the expert category because I had a friend coming and he was going to raise expert and he had won all the races before. And then Pete Morris, our product manager was going to drive down. And I really wanted to beat him. And he was going to race expert. So I was like, well, I just raised expert who it doesn't really matter. That would have been pretty tough. He's a heck of a descender. But my power to wait. And this course though, it isn't really like a descender.

Of course, it's not. But so we'll get into that. Anyways, Pete didn't show up and I beat my friend by 15 minutes, although he did have a. Yeah. He had a mechanical.

15 minutes. He had a race and he had a cleat mechanical. Oh, yeah. So that took. He said about seven minutes out of his course. Yeah. But he also he beat me in every cross race. This fall. Handily, like by two, three minutes. So this was great.

Anyways, I ended up fourth out of six in my age group. And without the pros, I was 15 out of 30. So right in mid, it was awesome. Here's takeaways. One thing.

Pretty much 100% of people told me not to race expert. But the one thing I noticed is based on Strava times. It's a four lap course took me two hours and 22 minutes.

The first three quarters of the first lap I held with like the front group. And my descending skills went up like so much faster.

And then yeah. And then after that, it was like I was kind of in no man's land and my descents went slower and slower. But Jonathan, like, does that happen?

Yeah. Like it's kind of interesting. I think there are two sorts of people that react to this in two different ways. In your situation, I bet you benefited from just the line choice that everyone was taking.

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