'Cross Nats Takeaways, TT Bike Fits, Using Weight To Your Advantage & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 137
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
What we learned watching and racing cyclocross for 7 days straight, how to get the best TT bike fit, how to use extra weight to your advantage & more in this week's episode of the Ask a Cycling coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• (00:20) What we learned from CX Nationals
• (14:20) How to get the best TT bike fit
• (34:00) UCI TT regulations
• (42:00) What makes a good TT saddle?
• (51:30) Should you skip your taper?
• (54:15) How to utilize extra weight in a bike race
• Can heavy athletes be good cyclists?
• (1:01:20) How to increase training load without too much fatigue
• (1:04:10) Tubulars vs. Clinchers
• How to fix a flat in a hurry on the trail
• (1:11:45) How does cold weather affect performance?
• How cold does it need to be to use warmers or embrocation?
• (1:19:10) How to refine your pedaling technique
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. They ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.9 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:10.8 | Hello, we're gonna answer more of those cycling and traffic on related questions today |
| 0:14.6 | You can submit them at trainer road.com slash podcast |
| 0:17.5 | But before we get into that, let's just pick up where we left off last week, which was cross-nats |
| 0:22.6 | It's all done here in Reno. It was a blast. It was an awesome awesome event to have going on |
| 0:28.5 | Nate, you did not race as much as you plan to |
| 0:34.2 | Why so I did a training camp over the weekend before cross-nats |
| 0:38.7 | I thought I was gonna come in like take a couple days rest get a good rebound and fitness |
| 0:44.1 | I had also pulled my back |
| 0:45.9 | So there were many reasons but I started pre-waring the course and I felt really bad |
| 0:49.8 | I thought I just tired from this |
| 0:52.7 | From this trip and my back was still pulled so getting on and off the bike was hard |
| 0:56.9 | So I skipped that day by pre-road the course and I was like I'll come back the next day |
| 1:00.7 | But then I actually I actually got sick |
| 1:03.4 | So it's just sick the whole week |
| 1:05.2 | And I really wanted to race because that you'd watch all these people race and then on the last |
| 1:11.0 | on like on Sunday I tried to do Carson, which isn't so hard to sweet spot workout and that it was hard to do anything |
| 1:18.7 | So I did the right choice I |
| 1:20.9 | May the right decision by not racing while I'm sick |
| 1:23.3 | It just would have been horrible and probably would have been more sick |
| 1:26.2 | I did some backstories in between there like light aerobic riding I |
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