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 Zimmerman

Hi everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello, and we are going to answer more of your cycling or triathlon training related questions today

You can submit them to us at trainer road calm slash podcast and we will go through them read through them all of them and

build up a list for next week to answer for you all

First before we get into things we have a few house cleaning items

First of all we were talking about maple syrup. We actually got called out on on Twitter for this, but

We were actually saying that we didn't know exactly the G or the the the glycemic index of maple syrup and it's actually 54

So it's pretty low right Chad? I mean comparatively speaking

Yeah, yeah, I was surprised I thought I didn't know for sure

But I thought it'd be on the pretty high end of that index, but turns out it's right smack to happen the middle

Yeah, I would think it'd be more like glucose, which is 100 because it's just sure a

Reset potato baked is 111 yeah, and brown rice boiled is 50 so maple syrup is 54

Yeah, just pretty interesting another point of reference that's common on the bike is a banana. That's 55

Yeah, so interesting stuff that's so

Checking that one off for you all on the other side of things Nate

Recently you did a hill climb time trial on your mountain bike from about what I guess 5,000 feet up to

8,000 feet something like that. Yeah, that was the one that you guys weren't

We're too scared to do

There's got yeah, I had traveling next day. Yeah, we were both traveling the next day and and as you guys can test

I had every intention of doing it, but every I just had too many things to do

Just another point of reference. I did Carson City off road and traveled the next day

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