Ask a Cycling Coach: 122 – Special Guest: Andrew Talansky on his move to triathlon
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Talansky is one of the most successful American cyclists in history with a win at The Criterium du Dauphine, top ten Grand Tour finishes, domestic tour wins and national championship titles to his name. At 28 years old, some would say he has his whole road racing career ahead of him, but he's changing gears – the most successful American pro cyclist in recent times is moving sports to triathlon.
We sat down with Andrew at the IRONMAN World Championships to discuss what a road cyclist needs to do when he transfers to Triathlon.
Topics covered in this episode:
• Why Andrew Talansky left pro cycling
• The demands on the pro peloton
• What it's like to ride in the pro peloton
• How to mentally deal with a bad crash
• How triathletes can be more valuable for sponsors
• Does Andrew expect to have the fastest bike splits in triathlon?
• What are Andrew Talansky's running abilities?
• How Andrew Talansky plans to become a fast swimmer
• How Andrew Talansky plans to build up to IRONMAN full distance races
• What triathlons is Andrew Talansky planning on racing?
• Why Andrew Talansky has an advantage in triathlon
• What cyclists need to consider when moving to triathlon
• How to get more comfortable on a TT bike
• What bike will Andrew Talansky use in triathlon
• Andrew Talansky's nutrition plans for triathlon
• Why triathlon is more advanced than road racing
• Why having one coach for triathlon is better than three
• How cyclists can avoid injury when transferring to triathlon
• What Andrew Talansky's diet is like
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, coach Jonathan here with a quick update before we dive into today's special episode. |
| 0:04.9 | It was recorded off-site at Kona and as a result, you'll notice the audio sounds a bit different, |
| 0:09.4 | but hopefully it shouldn't cause any issues for you all. The other update that I wanted to give you |
| 0:14.1 | is of course that coming up very soon. That's going to be Saturday and November 4th. We have a |
| 0:19.1 | live podcast recording. You can join us live in person, ask your questions, but most importantly, |
| 0:24.8 | we're going to be interviewing Matt Fitzgerald, the endurance sports writer. He wrote a book called |
| 0:30.0 | How Bad Do You Wanted that we've talked about a ton on the podcast and that's what we're going to |
| 0:33.2 | get into, the psychology of performance, so how to use your mind to get more out of your body |
| 0:39.2 | when you train. So you can join us for that in San Francisco, California. That's going to be the |
| 0:43.6 | Rafa Cycle Club in San Francisco. And we're even going to do a group ride thereafter, go up and climb |
| 0:49.0 | Mount Tam, weather pending, and explore a bit of Marine County. It's going to be a no-drop ride. It's |
| 0:53.7 | going to be awesome. We're going to have some food for you all, some drinks. They have a cafe |
| 0:58.5 | right there. Awesome location. Awesome guest, Matt Fitzgerald should be able to provide a huge |
| 1:03.1 | amount of insight. So please join us that Saturday, November 4th at the Rafa Cycle Club in San |
| 1:08.0 | Francisco. Thanks everybody. Enjoy the episode. |
| 1:13.4 | Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. Ask a cycling coach, |
| 1:17.5 | podcast presenter by trainer road. We'll coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman. |
| 1:21.7 | Our CEO Nate Pearson. Hey, hey. And a very special guest today, Andrew Tilanzky. How's it going, man? |
| 1:27.7 | It's going well. Happy to be here. Thank you for having me. Where are we right now? |
| 1:31.6 | Actually, we are a couple of miles down Ali Drive sitting right by the water in beautiful Kona. |
| 1:38.0 | Why? Yeah. You have a very much better rental house than us. |
| 1:43.4 | We got lucky. We were looking last minute for a place here and all of a sudden, |
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