Cape Epic, DOMS, Strategy with Sofía Gomez Villafañe – Ask a Cycling Coach 209
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2019
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Special guest and 4x Argentine National Champion Sofía Gomez Villafañe of the Stans Pivot Pro Team joins us for a preview of Nate & Sofía's Cape Epic plans, a deep dive into DOMS, race strategy and more!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- 4x Argentine National Champion, Sofía Gomez Villafañe
- Outside workouts are live!
- Epic Rides Carson City Off-Road Preview
- Nate and Sofía's Cape Epic plans
- Strength training benchmarks
- How to build an MTB race strategy
- How to get better at sustained power
- How to drop somebody that's faster than you
- Is muscle pain proportional to training load or quality?
- A deep dive on DOMS
- How to feel okay with celebrating
- How to gain "free" speed
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the Ask a |
| 0:04.0 | Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee with |
| 0:07.5 | our head coach Chad Timberman. All right buddy. Our CEO and a Pearson. Hello. And |
| 0:11.3 | special guests Sophia Gomez-Bjafani. How you doing? Good. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:15.6 | Yeah. Thanks for coming in. You are now I guess a four-time Argentine |
| 0:19.8 | national champion. Yep. Super impressive. You just came back from Argentina |
| 0:23.5 | actually straight to Reno for Carson City off road. That is correct. And |
| 0:26.5 | congratulations you defended your title. That's pretty sweet. Yeah thank you. |
| 0:30.4 | Twice. Yeah and then cross-country disciplines. So it's always yeah it's pretty |
| 0:34.7 | special to have your country's flag you know getting to rep it for the whole |
| 0:38.4 | year. So I'm really excited. I think you guys should get a belt kind of like |
| 0:42.4 | WWF like World or National Champions. You have your free and speed right |
| 0:46.4 | listen of the belt. Yeah that would be awesome. It's also like it's a |
| 0:49.5 | routine too that I feel like the Argentine national like the Jersey looks |
| 0:52.5 | really good. You know like some countries it doesn't look quite as good. This one |
| 0:55.7 | looks awesome. It's just like super simple white baby blue. It's pretty sweet. |
| 0:59.2 | So yeah congrats. And now you're here for something completely different. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah big big race on Sunday. Yeah lots of miles. Lots of miles versus you know |
| 1:08.1 | 90-minute cross-country and then even shorter short track right. So I want to |
| 1:13.7 | before we go into anything you're just going to join us as a regular host |
| 1:16.7 | answering the questions with us everything else is going to be pretty fun. |
| 1:19.2 | We'll give you the hard ones. And if you're joining us you can do so live on |
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