Consistency, Disappointing Races, Peaking Too Early, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 351
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🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
1:50 What has changed about Keegan’s training this year
How Keegan is preparing for the shift from gravel to MTB
17:59 Keegan’s strategy for Epic Rides’ 24 Hours in The Old Pueblo
27:20 How to deal with disappointing results in early season races
43:21 How to regain motivation after years of training
57:33 Tips from pros on how they maintain consistency in training
01:23:21 Rapid fire questions
1:55:16 How to gain confidence in the middle of a big field
02:08:22 Does AI FTP Detection work without max efforts?
02:11:16 What to do if you’ve had big gains in the Base Phase
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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 |
| 0:05.7 | Coach Jonathan Lee we have trainer road in cannon Dale's amber peers. Good morning everybody |
| 0:10.8 | We have hand up plus the black bibs racing's IVA drain |
| 0:16.2 | I nailed it now you can change your team name now |
| 0:21.4 | Great and we also have Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Ram Rafa lots of different sponsors Keegan Swenson. What's up Keegan? |
| 0:28.7 | Hey, thanks for having me |
| 0:31.3 | My current American national champion in cross country mountain biking as well as short track cross country as well and |
| 0:39.1 | Leadville champion and now you're getting ready to take on the lifetime Grand Prix |
| 0:44.1 | Yeah, yeah, looking forward to it |
| 0:46.6 | We're gonna get into that later and we'll get into lots of other stuff |
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| 1:22.1 | We are going to cover a handful of things today |
| 1:24.1 | We're gonna talk about consistency and what each of these really high profile athletes do |
| 1:29.1 | Or high level athletes I should say do to maintain consistency or what they've done at different points in their career to maintain consistency when it was challenging |
| 1:37.1 | We're gonna talk about disappointing races and how to manage expectations |
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