Bonking, Outside Workouts, Predictions for Cape Epic 2021 and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 261
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Why bonking on your rides is not making you faster, tips to increase your FTP while riding outside with TrainerRoad's Outside Workouts Feature, the coaches' predictions for racing Cape Epic in 2021 and more in Episode 261 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- The coaches’ expectations for Cape Epic 2021
- Why bonking on your rides is not making you faster
- How to estimate your FTP ceiling
- The pros and cons of fueling your rides to hunger
- How to find the right type of training to continue to increase your FTP
- Tips to ride in the right zone with Outside Workouts
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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 |
| 0:05.6 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:11.0 | Hello and trainer road and canondales amber pierce. What's up, Amber? Hey, hi everyone |
| 0:17.0 | We are going to answer more the cycling and traffic on related questions that you've submitted at trainer road calm slash podcast |
| 0:22.4 | Please keep doing that. It's awesome reading all of your questions and |
| 0:25.5 | And plenty of folks have been writing in about the events that were rescheduled that are now canceled or rescheduled again |
| 0:31.2 | Going through the whole process and asking more questions about that plan builder |
| 0:34.9 | Honestly is the best way to address that and you can look back at previous episodes from we covered that |
| 0:39.1 | But there are plenty of other questions that we also want to want to address this time. So |
| 0:43.7 | But first things first a couple items |
| 0:46.0 | Firstly, Nate. We have a job posting correct that we should probably talk about we do and John |
| 0:51.1 | I just want to let you know we are not live on YouTube in case there is a delay |
| 0:54.1 | But what our new job posting is we have a front end designer we have two of those open |
| 0:58.4 | Those are the people responsible for the HTML and CSS light job of script work |
| 1:02.8 | They're kind of familiar with react but they're not doing big react work |
| 1:05.6 | And it makes it really nice in our system as we have product designers |
| 1:08.7 | We have engineers and we have front end designers so that the engineers can do the deep engineer stuff the front end designers |
| 1:14.4 | Do it their best at really good HTML and CSS using patterns and design systems and knock stuff out |
| 1:20.5 | And then the product designers can |
| 1:23.0 | Make it look look nice and those kind of as a front end designer you do have input on it and |
| 1:29.3 | Working with the design team and you'd be on the design team |
| 1:32.3 | But it's it's cool job. So apply now at trainer comm slash jobs |
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