Ask a Cycling Coach: 058 - TrainerRoad Podcast

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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🗓️ 3 October 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

• How to save energy in cyclocross • How to pace a cx race • CrossVegas review • How to ride barriers • Braking and cornering for cyclocross • How to adjust your workouts to fit in less than 60 minutes • What CTL can you expect from a base training phase? • What gearing is best for cyclocross? • Is it bad to train at night? • Night training vs. morning training • How much do you have to train in order to get better? • How to raise your FTP • How to follow an interval workout outdoors • How to adjust your training plan for missed workouts • Is it worth it to get a power meter? • How to train for a muscular imbalance • How to improve left / right balance • Circadian rhythms • How important is it to train at the same time every day? • How to balance training with an erratic schedule with training • How to train junior athletes • How to motivate an athlete

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach
0:04.6	podcast presented by a trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we're back at trainer
0:08.9	road this week with our head coach Chad Timmerman and our CEO Nate Pearson. And we are going
0:15.0	to answer more of your coaching questions today and we will kick off with Devon's question.
0:19.6	He sent it in via Snapchat. Yeah. What about Cross Vegas? Oh, that's right. We should do that.
0:24.4	Sorry, Devon. We'll get to yours in just a bit. Let's talk about Cross Vegas because all three of us
0:28.5	did it. There were us race first race UCI World Cup. Different levels of success. Yeah, it was
0:35.6	the Wheeler and we did the Wheeler's and dealers events. So all day they had done USAC races
0:41.2	and then after they did the USAC races, they did Wheeler's and dealers. Then after that,
0:45.3	they went into the UCI Pro women them Pro men. So you could say that we paved the way for the
0:49.5	UCI pros a bit, but indeed the sand pit. Yeah. Yeah. It was a song about the start field. Yeah,
0:56.8	147 men. There were 198 registered, but 147 actually lined up and then a lot. Yeah, and I'm pretty
1:05.6	tight running and tight course in general guys across maybe. Yeah. Like if you're standing there,
1:10.0	you could line up five across. Five across. And then there were 98 women. They started two minutes
1:14.4	after us. Yep. Two minutes after us. So and there are some fat and the thing about the industry class
1:20.7	or this Wheeler's and dealers class, you have a huge mix. Like some people are extremely fast,
1:25.8	right? A lot of them are like X pro type of guys that now work in the industry really fast.
1:30.3	Then you had there was one guy wearing a nude suit. It was like it looked like you like printed
1:35.6	on the skin suit. It was like fur and like, but or like hair and skin. Black crack and fat
1:41.0	pearls. Who's very graphic is disgusting. And then another guy in the shark suit. He's there every
1:45.3	year. A guy in a gorilla suit. So some people don't take it seriously. Some people do, but regardless,
1:50.4	we were seated around 100 out of 147. Well, you know what? I think only they didn't have zero through
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