Cyclcross Deep Dive With Special Guests Cody Kaiser & Courtney McFadden – Ask a Cycling Coach 136
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Cyclocross pros Cody Kaiser and Courtenay McFadden stopped by TrainerRoad HQ for a deep dive on cyclocross training and racing in front of an in-studio audience during Cyclocross National Championships.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• Dismounting tips from the pros
• Should you do a step-through or not?
• How often should you practice dismounting and remounting?
• How to maintain momentum in the sand
• How to ride an off-camber section
• How to decide if you should ride an obstacle or run it
• Tips for learning to bunnyhop barriers
• How to pre-ride a course properly
• How to ride Belgian Steps
• Should you wear a GPS watch or use a head unit?
• How do pro cyclocross racers eat?
• Taper strategies before a big cyclocross race
• Pre-race meals for cyclocross racers
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TOPIC TIMESTAMPS
(00:35) Athlete Introductions
(03:10) Barriers
(12:55) Getting clipped back in
(14:15) Bunny hopping barriers
(18:45) Pre-riding the course
(25:35) Sand
(29:05) Mud & off camber
(33:45) Ruts
(35:05) Garmin/head units
(37:35) Track walk
(41:55) Race week nutrition
(44:20) Race day nutrition
(45:25) Mechanics
(47:10) Tires and pressures
(49:50) Warm ups
(52:45) Call ups and start strategy
(55:35) Passing
(58:20) Etiquette
(59:25) Crashing
Questions:
(1:02:35) How much do you incorporate strength training?
(1:05:55) How do you float up Belgian stairs?
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody. Wow, this is a lot bigger than the normal audience. |
| 0:04.0 | We usually just have just the three of us and Coach Chad is in the audience, but there's a lot more people in just Coach Chad. |
| 0:10.6 | So welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast. It's good to have everybody here. Everyone's here for Cycle Cross Nationals. |
| 0:17.2 | And yeah, way bigger audience than I expected. We never really know what to expect being a software company. |
| 0:22.4 | So you don't really have people come here very often. They just come to us on the internet. So good to have you all here. |
| 0:27.4 | We have some special guests with us. We're going to dig into Cycle Cross since it's Cycle Cross Nationals time on my right here to my left. Courtney McFadden. |
| 0:35.6 | Courtney, can you tell us who you ride for and how long you've been racing that sort of thing? |
| 0:40.6 | I ride for pivot cycles. Am I supposed to talk into this? |
| 0:43.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.6 | Okay. |
| 0:45.6 | And DNA cycling. And I've been racing for I started. |
| 0:53.2 | Like everybody at the grassroots level in about 2010. So seven years. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.7 | Anything else? |
| 0:58.2 | Awesome. That's good. Cody. Cody Kaiser. |
| 1:01.6 | Cody, can you tell us who you ride for? How long have you been riding all that stuff? |
| 1:04.6 | I ride for Lang Twins winery and specialized bicycles. |
| 1:08.2 | And I actually just spoke so many day that this is my 10th year at Nationals. |
| 1:11.2 | So long time riding, but 10 years of coming to this circus too. |
| 1:15.8 | Sweet. |
| 1:16.2 | Yeah. Awesome. Very cool. Nate, they know who you are. We're going to have to do that. |
| 1:19.9 | We live right now. |
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