Caffeine and Nutrition, Training with the Menstrual Cycle, Closing Gaps and More with Special Guest Amber Pierce – Ask a Cycling Coach 220
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Special guest and Cannondale Pro Amber Pierce joins the team for a discussion on how caffeine affects mid-ride nutrition, closing gaps in a race, balancing performance with the menstrual cycle and much more. Episode 220 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast is live!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Amber Pierce joins the podcast team for Episode 220!
- News and updates from Eurobike
- Why not upgrading your race category can be a good thing
- Can caffeine affect nutrient absorption from other foods?
- How much sunscreen should you use for long rides?
- How to focus your training during the race season
- Why plateaus in fitness happen, and how to move past them
- Should you use your sprint to close gaps in a race?
- How should women alter their training to better coincide with their menstrual cycle?
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody and welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast presented by train road |
| 0:06.0 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have our head coach Chad Timmerman with us |
| 0:09.5 | Hi everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson is out our normal co-host that we have so we have a very special return guest |
| 0:17.3 | Canondale's hamburger pierce. How's it going? Hi everybody? It's going really well. Good to have you back |
| 0:22.2 | People were threatening to just stop listening and punch whatever they were listening on when you weren't on after having you on for two weeks |
| 0:29.1 | Sanger said yeah, you said a harsh. Yeah, and then we did it two weeks in a row |
| 0:33.5 | Then like we got people habituated and then we just pulled the addiction away |
| 0:37.9 | It's pulled the coffee away from you know what I mean, so it's good to have you back though. What's new? |
| 0:42.3 | What's new with you man a lot? |
| 0:44.3 | So I'll say this transition out of full-time racing is a little bit weird |
| 0:49.5 | I bet and for the record it's actually really fun to be on this side of it so |
| 0:54.7 | Been turning my attention to a lot of charity and outreach events sweet |
| 0:59.0 | I do run a small small non-profit and we do a lot of women's specific clinics |
| 1:04.3 | So we organize a really awesome |
| 1:06.6 | gravel clinic out in Vermont this year |
| 1:09.0 | So hoping to do some more of that which is really cool and |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, one of the things I haven't talked a lot about is that last year |
| 1:16.5 | I ended up having a really bad concussion from my crash at dirty canza and |
| 1:21.8 | It's been a really interesting learning process about concussion because |
| 1:26.4 | For several weeks actually I didn't think that I could possibly have a concussion because I hadn't hit my head |
| 1:32.0 | But |
| 1:32.8 | Apparently when you hit hard enough your brain is just the solid mass floating around and fluid in your skull |
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