Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, the Asuka cycling

coach podcast presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and coach Chad Timmerman

is with me. Hello. And so is our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello, that was my Chad impression.

Pretty good. This is this is where you can get answers. You're coaching questions. Forgive

me. So you can submit them to us at support at trainer road.com. And we will, uh, yeah,

we'll be able to sort through as many questions as we get, pick out the ones that we can answer

and answer them here on the podcast for you. You can find this podcast on iTunes on Sound

Cloud or on Stitcher. And you can leave us reviews there, leave comments on Sound Cloud.

And we can see those there, ask questions there too. All that works. Um, and we can pull

through all that stuff and connect with you guys. We love it. That's why we do this.

So let's kick things off right now with Craig's question. Uh, actually, it's not a question

just to thanks. And I actually put this in here because I wanted to let you guys know that

we do see it when you guys just send in a thank you note and we appreciate it. So Craig

says no question. Just wanted to say thanks. I've been using trainer road since last August

for the last five months. And you say that you live in Colorado. I've been doing base plans

and riding inside since the weather yesterday in Colorado was nice. I had to do four hours

and decided to do it outside. First, I averaged almost 17 miles per hour for the whole four

hour ride, which for me is about two miles per hour faster than previous rides. Awesome.

Second, yeah, that's strong, right? Second, I felt strong. The whole ride and did not hang

on in quotes at the end. Third, I included a 1.5 mile climb with a 13% peak gradient on

it and was able to accomplish it without an issue. This is especially encouraging as

it's my first climb of the year. And I'm usually not this strong yet. So good job, Craig.

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