Welcome to That Trafflon Show, the podcast presented by scientific traathlon and hosted by me, Michael Erikson.

Today I'm joined by Stephen Barrett, who is a cycling coach from Ireland, working as the head coach of the UCI World Tour team Decaflon Ache de Cé la Mondial and he's also coaching several of the riders on the team personally

including GC contender Felix Gall who was fifth in this year's Tour de France

we start with a bit of a look into the inner workings of the coaching setup of a world tour team

and then from there we move on to a detailed deep dive into training methods, training

principles in typical TTS fashion.

We'll get right into the interview after thanking our sponsors, Precision Fuel and Hydration.

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I remember branded races as it makes it so much easier to meet your electrolyte needs in particular.

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fuel hydration products by using the code TTS 2025 on precision flow hydration.com. Now without any further ado, let's get

into the interview with Stephen Barrett. Welcome to that Traflon show, Stephen. How are you?

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