Ask a Cycling Coach: 057 - TrainerRoad Podcast – Special Guest: Geoff Kabush

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

MTB Legend Geoff Kabush - 15x XCO National Champion, 5x CC National Champion, 1x XCM Champion – How to race at a high level for a long time – How to adapt to different race formats – How pros approach base training – How to train for endurance mountain bike racing – How to prepare for an Epic Rides race – Bike setup and training for mountain bike criteriums – How much power it takes to win a pro mountain bike race – What type of fitness do you need for mountain biking? – Are power meters useful for mountain biking? – How to use a power meter for mountain biking – Should you pace yourself in a mountain bike race? – How to set up your bike for mountain biking – Are wider bars better? – Which is faster: hard tails or full suspension? – Which tires are best for cross country racing? – How to pick the right tire for your race – Why World Cup racers are faster than North American racers – Is cyclocross beneficial for mountain biking? – How to change your training from MTB to cyclocross – Common mistakes of road riders on mountain bikes – Which tire pressure is best

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0:00.0	Alright, welcome to a special episode of the Asuka Cycling Coach podcast.
0:05.0	Presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and I'm up in
0:08.5	Trucky, California. We're up at 7,000 feet roughly and I'm with Jeff Kabush.
0:14.0	13, 14-time national champion now.
0:17.0	Might be 15-no.
0:19.0	15-time Canadian national champ, cross-country rider, 5-time cycle cross champion.
0:25.0	Yeah, and I just won the marathon title for the first time this summer.
0:28.0	Sweet, and gradsman. So covering the gamut of off-road national
0:32.0	championships. You've been around in the sport of mountain biking for a long
0:36.0	time but not just around. You've been prominent. When did you start getting into mountain biking?
0:41.0	Well, I grew up on Vain Corralin in the mid-90s and I guess my first
0:48.0	experience I kind of got me hooked was as a junior I started racing
0:51.0	cross-counter, did well in qualified for the World Championships in 1995.
0:57.0	After playing a ton of sports growing up, I kind of experienced going over
1:02.0	Germany and seeing what the sport was all about. Really got me hooked and
1:05.0	decided to focus on that. Afterwards I went to school and in
1:10.0	versus Victoria and did an engineering degree along the way as I kind of
1:15.0	came up through the ranks and break out season. I kind of launched
1:18.0	internationally was in 2000 when I kind of qualified from or the woods
1:25.0	and to Sydney Olympics and finished ninth there and finished off my degree
1:30.0	in 2003 and then just focused on racing my bike since then.
1:34.0	So yeah, I forgot to mention that you're also a four-time Olympian, right?
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