Ask a Cycling Coach: 125 – CX National Champs, Pacing Strategies, Dehydration & More
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Nate returns from India with new insight on how to get power data from a gym bike while traveling, Jonathan gives you a complete guide to Cyclocross National Championships, and Chad goes deep into strength training and staying hydrated during late night workouts.
Topics covered in this episode:
• Live podcast recording w/Matt Fitzgerald November 4 at Rapha San • Francisco, with group ride thereafter!
• Which power meter pedals are most flexible?
• How to keep your training on track while traveling
• How to recover from taxing travel
• How to get extra low gearing on a road bike
• Direct mount vs. spiderless chainrings
• Why cyclists should be using strength training
• How to incorporate strength training into a training plan for cyclists
• How to train for time trials
• What makes a good time trialist?
• Complete guide to USAC Cyclocross National Championships in Reno, NV
• How pro CX racers pace differently than amateurs
• How to pace a cyclocross race
• Why you are getting dropped at the end of a race
• 24-hour race strategies for success
• How to pace an ultra-endurance event
• How to train for an IRONMAN 70.3 with a lot of climbing
• Why descents are actually a triathlete's best friend
• How to lessen the effects of overnight hydration
• Should you use hydration mix when training indoors?
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 coach Jonathan |
| 0:06.7 | Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson hello back from India back from India |
| 0:12.7 | We'll talk about that in a bit and this is where we go over your cycling and triathlon related questions |
| 0:18.3 | You can submit them to us at trainroad.com slash podcast and we will go over them one the quick thing before we go any further |
| 0:24.7 | We have a pretty exciting event going on this weekend. It's probably the first time this podcast is actually gonna be live and |
| 0:30.8 | It's gonna be live in person not just live on the internet, but a both. Yeah, exactly in San Francisco at the Rafa cycle club this Saturday in November |
| 0:38.6 | Fourth so that should be coming up in a couple days from when this is released |
| 0:42.2 | If you haven't found the RSVP link or anything else you can see it on our Facebook page |
| 0:46.6 | Just go to trainer road dot com or Facebook and look for trainer road. You'll find it there |
| 0:51.0 | You can RSVP there so far it looks like we're gonna have I think a somewhat packed house |
| 0:56.5 | So it's it's not a massive venue, so but please come |
| 1:01.5 | 10s actually yeah |
| 1:05.5 | But you can join us there. It's it's gonna be a ton of fun |
| 1:09.2 | Rafa his where there it's an awesome venue if you've been there, but we've worked together. We've got like |
| 1:14.5 | It's basically like a really good food truck in the area that makes mini burritos |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah, they're gonna mini burritos for us. They have a cafe right there in the shop too |
| 1:23.3 | So if you've ever been there, it's it's a really cool spot |
| 1:25.9 | The the weather it will be rainy so we adjusted the route |
| 1:30.2 | If it changes and it's wonderfully sunny then we'll go back to the old one |
| 1:33.3 | But we've adjusted the route. It's gonna be just it's probably gonna be a ride up to the Marin headland |
| 1:37.9 | So it's like a 19 20 mile ride from the from the clubhouse just across the bridge and back |
| 1:42.3 | I don't have a rain jacket. Hmm. Well, I think that we're going to a place that sells them |
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