Belgian Waffle Ride, Leadout Trains, Recovery Tactics and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 317
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
Santa Cruz Bicycle’s Keegan Swenson joins us to talk about his two National Championship wins and his unexpectedly bumpy ride at Belgian Waffle Ride, as well as answering your questions on recovery modalities and joining us for a discussion on leadout train tactics and training.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Intro 0:00
- Keegan’s learnings from National Championships 1:04
- Nate’s learnings from Tahoe Trail 100 22:233
- Managing hunger during training blocks 32:45
- Tips for strong riders in weak fields 53:09
- Keegan’s Belgian Waffle Ride experience 1:04:23
- The value of equipment upgrades1:36:30
- Recovery modalities that actually work 1:48:57
-What’s the best bike and equipment for Leadville? 1:54:26
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have with us IVA drains hand up gloves plus the black bids racing. |
| 0:11.9 | Yeah. Good job. |
| 0:13.8 | I had a practice that right before. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm still like hesitated. |
| 0:18.6 | It's like I've got a mental like thing with it now, right? |
| 0:21.6 | Like I'm so terrified. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm going to screw it up every single time. |
| 0:25.5 | But and then we also have our CEO Nate Pearson. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello. |
| 0:28.5 | And we have Santa Cruz bicycles Keegan Swenson. |
| 0:32.3 | So I've keegan. |
| 0:33.6 | Hey guys. |
| 0:34.4 | Oh, not much. |
| 0:36.4 | Good to have you on fresh multi time national champion. |
| 0:39.0 | Congratulations on that one. |
| 0:40.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:41.0 | This time. |
| 0:42.3 | What did you win a national championship in cross country and short track? |
| 0:48.9 | That's mountain bike. |
| 0:49.7 | So you won both. |
| 0:50.5 | Yeah. |
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