Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the Ask a Cycling

Coach podcast presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and here with me is

coach Chad Zimmerman. Everyone and our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. And we're here to answer

more of your coaching questions today. You can submit them to us at trainer road.com slash

podcast or use the hashtag Ask Trainer Road on various social channels and we will sort

through as many as we can and answer them. So we'll kick things off with Sean's question.

This one came from Snapchat. He says, I just listened to the latest podcast. He talked

about pacing for a triathlon. I'm soloing a 125 mile race or ride. I assume this is

probably a ride for him. So he's soloing a 125 mile ride this weekend ramping up for

the Rafa prestige race in August. And as soon as they be the prestige appellation

West Virginia, that's going to be a crazy ride. They do a lot of climbing. Yeah, I tried

to look up the course description on that and nothing's supposed to yet. So I don't think

they I think that like part of the Rafa prestige deals and never share the course until like

the day you're assuming it's a pretty climbing course. Yeah. Yeah. I know West Virginia.

You can't go anywhere without climbing. So and it's usually steep and gnarly stuff. So

he says question. How would you recommend targeting normal normalize power and intensity

factor for the ride or would you use a different metric during the ride? Yeah. Chad, what

would you say there? That's a good question because we don't know what the topography

of the courses. If the climbs are severe and the down hills are really relaxing, things

might break down a little differently than if it's a flatter, more sustained ride. I mean,

if you're pacing for something like a triathlon where it's going to be a really steady state

nature and it's as long as 112, 125 miles in your case, then it's going to be pretty key

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