Ask a Cycling Coach: 81 – TrainerRoad Podcast

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

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4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

• TrainerRoad Podcast Ride Day! • What are "openers"? • How to train the day before a race • How to train if you don't plan on racing • Should you take an FTP test after coming back from time off or injury? • More music recommendations from Coach Chad & Jonathan • What our ideal training setups are • What is the best trainer table? • What are the best headphones to use on the trainer? • How does your true VO2Max compare to a suggested one provided by your Garmin? • How to train for sprints • Is it wrong to ride hard early in the year? • Can training twice per day make you faster? • The best cycling / triathlon kit for tall people • Is there a placebo effect to the big ring? • Should you keep your training private, or share it publicly?

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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.
0:06.3	I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson.
0:10.8	Hello, and we're going to answer more of your cycling and traffic on related questions today.
0:14.9	You can submit them at trainer road.com slash podcast or use the hashtag ask trainer road and we'll come through them and we put them into a queue and
0:23.9	uh, good ones that we find and we'll answer them.
0:26.9	So before we answer them like normal, we have just a few things to go over first.
0:31.4	We have something that's pretty cool for anybody that lives in the in the Bay area in Northern California or anybody that wants to come and ride that area.
0:39.5	You should come join us.
0:40.9	The folks at Rafa have assisted to go and host a ride there.
0:45.8	It's pretty close to us.
0:46.6	They have the Rafa cycle club in San Francisco.
0:48.5	It's a really cool place to be and they have also asked us to record a podcast there from the club.
0:53.8	So you're welcome to join us for that too.
0:56.9	Yeah, right.
0:57.7	Exactly.
0:58.2	In living color.
0:59.8	So you're welcome to join us for that too.
1:01.6	It's going to be on March 19th.
1:03.3	That's Sunday March 19th and we're going to do about a 60 mile ride a little under that of a 60 mile ride from the Rafa cycle club.
1:12.1	It's going to be going up into Marin and I worked with like a like we're talking a Marin local like big time local to lay out the route.
1:20.2	And I'm sure all of a lot of you have written Mount Tam and everything else, but we're going to do some unique things, especially if the
1:26.8	weather's good.
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