Consequences of a High FTP, Our First TT, Organizing a Season and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 153
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
What you need to consider as you raise your FTP, the results from our first time trial, how to organize a busy race season and more in the Episode 153 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- How vacation affects fitness
- How to plan a big ride with friends
- The best route to take from San Francisco to Sea Otter
- Nutrition for long rides
- Chad's ramp test results
- Results from our first time trial of 2018
- How to pace a short time trial
- How to pace a climb
- How to recon a course with Best Bike Split
- What to know about sighting in a time trial
- How to manage a busy season of racing
- Is a higher FTP always the solution?
- Consequences of having a higher FTP
- Is raw wattage more important than relative power?
- How to break bad habits on the bike
- How holding your breath affects your performance
- What apps should cyclists use while riding?
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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 |
| 0:05.8 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timberman. All right, but our CEO Nate Pearson hello back from Boston in New York |
| 0:12.4 | Back back and we are going to answer more of your cycling and triathlon related questions today |
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| 0:26.2 | That changes at times. We'll try to let you know in that changes |
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| 0:32.7 | Also something I realize I haven't mentioned and it's kind of been going on for like you know two months |
| 0:36.7 | But we're on Spotify too. So if you want to listen to the podcast on Spotify, you can do that as well |
| 0:42.1 | I'm just a good podcast app Spotify. I don't like it as much because like a specific podcast app |
| 0:48.1 | I'd say that my favorite I like pocket cast or like one of the derivative ones that isn't just iTunes or the Google Play one |
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| 1:14.8 | I guess with that we've all so we've we've have a number of things that we need to catch up on okay, okay |
| 1:21.5 | Let me start off with Chad. Yeah, but I just want to tease something so it once stays on yeah, there was a time trial that happened |
| 1:27.0 | We're gonna cover that it's gonna be yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, but first great depth |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah, you share in something that I just wanted to bring full circle |
| 1:35.8 | Did not that anyone's paying that close of attention, but for a long time |
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