Athlete Interviews – Breakaways with Clif Bar Racing
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Not many teams know more about breakaways than Clif Bar Racing, and their status as USA Crits Champions Lap Leader Champions backs that up. Tune in as we go over every aspect of how to start, manage and successfully execute a breakaway.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Introduction to Clif Bar Racing
- What is a break away?
- How to decide to start a breakaway
- How hard do you go during a breakaway?
- Strategic tactics for your breakaway
- What to do when your breakaway attempt isn't sticking
- How to "sell" your attack
- Team dynamics of a breakaway
- Do you share the work evenly in a group breakaway
- How to read your competition
- Out of sight, out of mind
- When do you want to get out of a breakaway?
- Common mistakes in a breakaway
- Should you attack into the wind?
- Team tactics when there is a breakaway
- "You never want to be the guy who makes the second to last move"
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody and welcome to a very special episode of the Asuka Cycling Coach Podcast |
| 0:03.7 | presented by Trainer Road. As you can tell, we're not in our studio. We are actually in the, |
| 0:08.3 | well, I'll let you introduce where we are Pete, but we have a special guest with us, |
| 0:12.9 | and we are with Team Cliff Bar Racing. So I'll start on this side and we'll introduce, |
| 0:18.1 | and we've actually placed the twins on opposing sides of the table so you can keep track of them. |
| 0:21.9 | First things first, Connor Mullervie, how you doing? |
| 0:24.6 | Good, great. |
| 0:26.0 | Can you, you've been, I think both of you guys have been on the podcast before, is that correct? |
| 0:29.9 | Yep, we have. |
| 0:30.7 | Yeah, I was on last year for the first time. |
| 0:32.5 | Awesome. |
| 0:33.5 | And then if you've been on twice, Kevin? |
| 0:35.5 | I think only once. |
| 0:36.5 | Only once. |
| 0:37.5 | A year before him. |
| 0:38.5 | There we are. |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.5 | Now we get both twins at the same time. So, you guys are really known for breakaways. |
| 0:45.1 | I would say, at least from my perspective, if there is a USA Chris race, there's a Mullervie |
| 0:49.6 | in the breakaway, like always, and that's what we're going to talk about tonight is breakaways. |
| 0:54.1 | Sorry. |
| 0:55.1 | Those are our favorite. |
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