Ask a Cycling Coach: 111 – Singletrack 6 - Recap
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 14 August 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The dust has settled and Coach Chad, Jonathan and Nate share their final thoughts on Singletrack 6.
Topics covered in this episode:
- How to travel to a race on a budget
- The effects of a concussion
- How to recover from a concussion
- Ideal bike setups for cross country racing
- What is the best bike for technical XC racing
- How to decide between a hardtail or full suspension MTB
- What your pace has to do with cramping
- How to ramp TSS for a stage race
- Marginal gains for Hydration Packs
- Does heat training pay off?
- Daily pacing for a stage race
- The logistics of a stage race
- Tire choices for the interior of BC
- Should you use a hydration pack for XC racing?
- Marginal recovery gains during a stage race
- How to recover from a stage race
- How MTB recovery differs from road recovery
Transcript
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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 |
| 0:05.7 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee back as you are your host |
| 0:11.5 | With our head coach Chad Zimmerman. Hi everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello everyone just sighed really |
| 0:19.8 | I think you did pretty well Nate |
| 0:21.8 | and we're going to recap |
| 0:24.2 | single track six where a number of days are moved now from the event |
| 0:28.7 | This is my first day back in the office and I'm just putting in a partial time if you didn't listen to the previous podcasts |
| 0:35.2 | You'd owe yourself a favor to do so |
| 0:37.9 | This podcast at least would make a whole lot more sense if you did that |
| 0:41.6 | but we did a |
| 0:43.6 | Six-day mountain bike stage race in British Columbia called single track six sort of yeah |
| 0:49.7 | Yeah, we were there. Yeah |
| 0:52.1 | for five of the days and |
| 0:54.6 | Anyways, the intent was to do the six to full six days and |
| 0:58.6 | We shared our learnings after every stage that we did all throughout unfortunately didn't make it to stage six |
| 1:05.7 | Through a series of unfortunate events do we want to wrap up with those are really quick Nate? Do you want to start off? |
| 1:10.5 | You do a quick because I know everyone's probably already heard it |
| 1:12.8 | But I broke my frame in stage one Chad got cramps did every other day and then Jonathan |
| 1:17.6 | Smash just heading the ground on stage five and we left today early drove like through the night in a u-haul |
| 1:22.8 | Which is hey pro tip if you ever can't rent a car big enough for your bike bags because we had worked |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah, we had extra suitcases for the podcast equipment |
| 1:31.0 | And we rented a u-haul and it was cheaper to go point to point with a u-haul than a rental car because a lot of times |
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