Ask a Cycling Coach: 118 – Cross Vegas Review with Special Guest: Keegan Swenson
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
• How to race with a bent derailleur hanger
• The one thing you shouldn’t do right before a race
• Why your disc brakes may be rubbing
• How much aggression is okay in cx?
• How to get a good start, even from the back of the pack
• How to know when to make passes and when to wait
• How to know if you should ride or run stairs?
• How to not clip your pedals on stairs
• How to remount smoothly in a turn
• When bunny hopping barriers is a bad idea
• Tips for making it through a sand section
• How to drift turns on a CX bike
• What your tread can tell you about how your bike will handle
• What it takes to get a UCI point in cyclocross
• Chad, Nate and Jonathan’s results at Cross Vegas
• The key that most amateur CX racers are missing
• How to know if your race is over, or if you can salvage it
• What makes a good single speed course?
• How to beat somebody with a higher power to weight ratio in CX
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.9 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson hello and back with our special guest Keegan Swenson |
| 0:12.9 | Hey guys, and we if we sound a little horse because we raced cross Vegas last night |
| 0:18.1 | It was a late night especially for you Keegan. Yeah, and it was |
| 0:23.1 | I'm not surprising in Las Vegas. It was very dry. It was pretty warm really windy and I think we all |
| 0:29.7 | Enhailed our fair share of fertilizer and sand grass and dry |
| 0:35.7 | Yeah, cigarettes |
| 0:38.1 | Probably that's you. Yeah |
| 0:40.1 | It was a fun race hard as I remember it. It was really difficult |
| 0:45.0 | We were talking about it last night |
| 0:46.6 | It's kind of like if you're to look at the power profile the valleys just aren't really low valleys that kind of high elevation |
| 0:52.1 | Values, you know, it's just you're always putting down power to stay afloat |
| 0:56.1 | Depends on who the who you are. It's true. Yeah, should we talk let's talk about the |
| 1:01.1 | Saga of my bike yesterday because last time I did not have a saddle a seat post |
| 1:05.8 | Yeah, last time we talked about like I had the seat post |
| 1:08.1 | But so what happened is I forgot a nut |
| 1:11.4 | We went to the KS booth at inner bike the guys were very nice and no clue how who we were |
| 1:17.4 | Yeah, of course, but we just walked up and said hey, I brought us at a loss |
| 1:21.5 | This and I'm like please. Oh, please and racing tonight and he's like of course and he reaches all back and gets me one and pretty awesome |
| 1:27.5 | Shakes my hand and I walk away. Yep, very nice guys bike is all set |
| 1:32.4 | Should we go into and in terms of our preparation? |
| 1:36.1 | We walked around we walked around almost the whole day beforehand and we sat down for a short podcast recording and lunch |
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