Welcome to a special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast. It's coach Jonathan Lee here

And I'm here with a special guest. We're in a casino in South Lake Tahoe after the amgint tour of California's stage

five

six I'm not even sure what it is

That was five that was five good. Okay

And I'm here with Phil Geiman. So that was a voice of Phil Geiman Phil can introduce yourself for those that don't know

I'm Phil Geiman a pro cyclist for Cano do and Phil also has a podcast

And the name of the podcast bill. It's real talent with Phil Geiman on the Peloton brief dot com and it's honest

Conversations with athletes and it's a refreshing change. I give it a listen

So it's pretty cool if I was to read in a book which you love and or which I love and which told me that you like

And it also let me know that you like cookies. So we brought you a lot of cookies. Well, thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Well my wife did well

I'll be honest

Yeah, certainly. Yeah, no doubt. So we're gonna talk to you firstly about

elevation training because that's kind of like the theme that the commentators are playing up today is the fact that it hit the highest point of the race

Yep, and we try to help make people faster

So basically what we want to talk about is how elevation affects your

Preparation or training beforehand how it affects the execution on race day and then your recovery

Sure, so first off you live down in LA correct? Yeah, I live in LA for for this race

I went and went to big bear for two weeks

That's kind of been like my

My basic altitude preparation is just two weeks somewhere above

6500 feet

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