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 with our head coach Chad Timberman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson Lou

And we're going to answer more of your cycling and triathlon related questions today

You can submit them to us at trainer road calm slash podcast

Before we get into answering your questions, we usually do this quite a lot

So I don't even know if I need to preface it like that

But we have something else we want to talk about because today

We are two days away from the end of the year

Bam new year new you so many people keep telling me about this year is gonna be the year

Exactly and but it's gonna be the year for me

It's actually on track for it. I'm not joking. Yeah Nate's Nate's you're setting up really well like

Let's let's talk about I'm doing what we talk about the podcast exactly right. Yeah

So let's talk about I figure we should take some time to review our personal years how they've gone in terms of cycling

Of course, we're not gonna get personal on here, but I'm cycling and training and that type of a thing racing and

Hopefully we can give like some some contactors maybe some principles for people for you me that people can

Use to analyze and understand their year and know what to do for next year. So

first

Kick things off Chad. How did your year go? How would you sum it up?

I'm super spotty. I think everyone who listens knows that

Two big lessons that I pulled or took away from this year was rapid weight loss and

basically fitness declines go hand in hand and

Travel and a disjointed schedule makes training really hard especially if you're not a sort who

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