Ask a Cycling Coach: 119 – Live from Interbike with special guest, Dan Empfield
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode we spoke with the God Father of triathlon innovation, Dan Empfield, at Interbike in Las Vegas, NV.
Topics covered in this episode:
• How triathlon wetsuits came to exist
• What caused TT bikes to be designed as they are
• The two most important bike fit measurements
• How gravel racing could affect triathlon
• How to know if a TT bike fits you before you buy it
• How to avoid neck pain in aero position
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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 |
| 0:06.2 | Coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:10.3 | Hey, hey, and you can probably hear by the noise |
| 0:12.5 | We're not in the trainer road studios, but we're here with this another special guest Dan Mfield |
| 0:17.1 | How you doing Dan just fine glad to glad to be with you guys? |
| 0:20.0 | He do you want to introduce yourself a bit Dan? |
| 0:24.7 | Well, if you want me to have sure yeah, yeah |
| 0:28.3 | Okay, well, hmm I |
| 0:32.1 | I've I'm old been doing this for a long time |
| 0:38.5 | I've risen to a spot of some notoriety only because I've outlasted everyone |
| 0:43.9 | No, I says you Dan. I think you're the most influential person in triathlon and I think like you you in your forum too |
| 0:52.5 | Sets a lot of trends and you've actually like a dance waving to somebody |
| 0:58.7 | Okay, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, so I think you're very influential |
| 1:02.6 | Probably the most influential influential person in triathlon |
| 1:05.4 | But where did you start off because you actually have set a lot of trends inside of triathlon right? |
| 1:11.0 | Well, let's see I |
| 1:13.0 | I did my first ever multi sport events in the 1970s and they were |
| 1:18.2 | cross-country ski bike and run and so that was sort of my entree into multi sport |
| 1:24.6 | Unless you want to go all the way back to when I was a kid in the 1960s doing run swim runs as a live-guard competitions, but |
| 1:33.7 | But |
| 1:34.9 | multi sport |
| 1:36.9 | as as always been |
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