Belgian Racing with Eamon Lucas – Ask a Cycling Coach 302
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eamon Lucas is an American bike racer who has achieved success as a road and crit racer in the USA, racing fixed gear bikes in the Redhook Crit series for the star-studded Specialized Rocket Espresso team, and now in the intense Belgian Kermesse racing scene. Listen in as we discuss the different race tactics and cultural nuances of racing in different regions and formats that have helped Eamon be successful.
Eamon’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eamon_lucas/
Eamon’s Team - Shifting Gears Kermesse: https://www.instagram.com/shiftinggears_kermesse/
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
TrainerRoad mobile app and Adaptive Training Update 00:52
Eamon’s background in cycling 2:02
Does racing fixed gear crits make you a better bike handler? 7:46
Why did Eamon go to Europe to race? 9:25
What are Belgian Kermesse races? 11:41
How does racing in Europe differ from the US? 17:42
How to deal with negative racing 28:52
What are the best race-winning strategies, and how are they different? 41:29
How to learn from tactical mistakes 48:03
Do you need to change your power profile to be a successful racer? 58:34
What are Eamon’s future goals? 1:04:34
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist that ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road. |
| 0:06.0 | Coach Jonathan Lee, we have a different crew with us here today. We have trainer road in canondales and burpiers. |
| 0:10.7 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:11.9 | We have trainer road and Cliff bar racing's Pete Morris. |
| 0:15.0 | How's it going guys? |
| 0:16.2 | And we have a special guest with us all the way across over in Belgium right now. |
| 0:20.6 | Iman Lucas, how you doing? I'm well. Thank you for, thank you for having me on the podcast today. I'm stoked to be here. |
| 0:26.0 | For sure. So we're going to get into everything about who you are, what you do. |
| 0:31.6 | And we're going to learn a lot about bike racing today like we do typically, but this time it's really going to be focused on just bike racing. |
| 0:37.8 | So buckle up for that. It'll be a lot of fun. |
| 0:40.6 | Before we do that, just a couple of things to announce really quick. If you are listening to this podcast, |
| 0:44.6 | you should absolutely be listening to the successful athletes podcast and the signs of getting faster podcasts. |
| 0:49.4 | You can do so down at links below. So check those out. |
| 0:51.9 | The other thing, the new mobile apps like we announced last week, they have been released for Android and iOS. |
| 0:57.5 | And you can also see a video that we are going to have up here on our YouTube channel. |
| 1:01.7 | And if you're curious and you're listening to this on our podcast instead of watching on YouTube, |
| 1:05.2 | then you can check out that video where Pete Nate and I actually break down everything that's new about those apps. |
| 1:10.0 | We even have great screen captures. You can see everything. It's super cool. |
| 1:13.4 | A few people have also mentioned the fact that like, hey, like the new app feels really slow. |
| 1:17.0 | And the reason for that, if you have been with Trader Road for a while, it's migrating all of your data over to the new app. |
| 1:22.5 | Because this is in a small update. It's like a big update. |
| 1:25.4 | And when that happens as a result, it's got some stuff to be able to move from one point to another. |
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