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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Ask a Cycling Coach: 106 – Singletrack 6 - Stage 1

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Stage 1 is done & dusted, and it left its mark with some serious shake-ups moving forward. Topics covered in this episode: • How not to start a race • Is pushing hard for position early in a race really worth it? • Making steep climbs manageable • Things to remember in technical descents • How did Nate's tire choice end up? • How to tackle steep and loose descents • How to change your mental state mid-race • The host's nutrition strategies • Managing cramps, and how to avoid them • Stage 2 preview

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:06.4

I'm coach Jonathan Leigh and if I sound like I have a froggy voice is because I think I inhaled half the state of Canada's or half the country of Canada's dirt

0:14.0

We're single track six with our head coach Chad Timmerman. Hi

0:17.1

Hi, everybody

0:19.4

Way to give things away their chat and our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello

0:24.0

I'm way to give things away their Nate

0:26.7

We as promised we're gonna be doing a

0:30.3

podcast after every stage here to share

0:33.6

Yeah, what what happened here, but we don't want to bore you with race reports

0:37.3

We'll give you some context really we want to try to focus on principles that we noticed or certain things that we could apply

0:43.9

What we learned yeah, what we learned and that hopefully can help you be faster in your next race

0:49.2

I learned that Canadians need to invest in air conditioning. Oh, yeah, yeah

0:54.3

We've been learning that for two and a half days now. This is a good takeaway those we booked a nice condo up in Canada

1:00.6

Really nice?

1:01.8

It looks gorgeous quite nice in the winter. This place would be the bomb. Yeah, and we assume that it would have air conditioning

1:08.2

And the last two days has been 95 degrees outside and we have no air conditioning

1:12.6

We had for the first two days broken fans that they gave us

1:15.8

Yeah, they're little 10 inch oscillating fans. So we're not talking about where the trainer road fans were longing for our last goes

1:22.8

Yeah, the nice for it. I mean just a lot of places in the world are like this, too. They don't have AC

1:28.2

Yeah, so there was another hotel though that we could have gotten that have AC. Yes

1:31.9

Yeah, we should probably research that a little more closely next time

1:34.3

Yeah, the good news is this is a six day stage race mountain bike stage race the first three stages

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