Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated making you a faster cyclist that ask a cycling coach podcast presented by a trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and here with me is our head coach Chad Timmerman.

Hi everybody.

And a special guest today we don't have Nate our CEO with us. He's at some all inclusive resort enjoying the spoils of vacation. So.

But we've got our filmmaker and house filmmaker and resident pretty much pro cyclist Dave Christiansen. It's up Dave.

Thanks for having me guys. And for those that don't know Dave Dave actually edits these every time after we record them Dave's the guy doing that. So he's familiar with with what's going on. I've heard every episode.

And Tim.

And just you guys can also get a better picture of Dave. So Dave what's your walk KG what do you weigh and what's your FTP.

So right now I am 65 KG's and last FTP assessment was 323 watts. So that's my FTP right now 323.

He's a beast. He's raised in Asia and some some some UCI races over there some stage races races all over the place. Any he races with Chad on the Urbola.

The age 24 cycling team. So those guys are the Urbola nature's bakery team. I think that's the name guys. I'm not sure.

Yeah, you know I'm not entirely sure either.

It's a herbal. They're in there. Urbola presented by Mark pro nature's bakery. There it is. There we are. So and you guys are headed off to really to Dave you're leaving tonight right.

Yeah, I'm leaving tonight to go to Chico stage race. Nice and Chad's heading over tomorrow morning for that. And for those that don't know it's a pretty well known stage race up here in North Cal.

Right Chad. Yeah, it is. It's a pretty big pro one to draw and the master's fields filling up as well and all the other lower category fields are packed full.

Yeah, we've had some big names there over the years for sure. A hornar was there last year, right with his with his air guest team. I don't know if you'll be here again this year, but and Hornard didn't win last year. I don't think I'm not sure but I don't believe he did.

So no, I don't I don't remember who won. I think it might have been an optimum rider. I'm not sure.

It's a tough stage race. You get to race around a car track circuit tomorrow. And then after that they have a long road race with a big dirt section super famous.

And then the next day you wake up to a tough what is it like a 20 minute time trial roughly guys about that. Yeah, around a 20 minute TT and then you finish everything off that same day with a crit on Sunday.

So yeah, it's it's a cool race. If any of you ever get the chance to come out and check it out, I would definitely give that one a shot. It's it's very cool.

And if any of you are looking for pictures look for Alex, you that's CHIU. He has some really cool picture pictures from last year with all the riders coming through the valley with all the dust. Pretty cool stuff. So before we get to or we get into the questions to one of the thing we had somebody this week Chad talk to us about training twice a day.

Essentially doing two different workouts and intentionally so not like accidentally and not splitting something in half necessarily but but actually having two scheduled workouts. I know you've written a blog post on this, but why would somebody trained twice a day and what do they need to know.

Typically the benefits are only going to happen with a high intensity workout couple with a low intensity workout, which order you do them in is up to you and well obviously influence how each of the two interact.

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