Cyclocross Pro Tips, Carbs and Heat, Punchy Fitness, and More - Ask a Cycling Coach 382
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🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ivy’s cyclocross season is starting, so we get her pro tips on CX racing and training, as well as Dr. Podlogar’s insight into why fueling seems much harder in hot conditions and much more in Episode 382 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(5:52) What happens when you get sick right before your goal event
(6:43) Ivy’s race schedule
(18:00) What head units are most commonly used in cyclocross?
(21:08) Ivy’s go-to bike skill drills
(28:49) How to transform steady state fitness into punchy fitness
(37:22) How is TSS calculated mid-workout
(40:38) Why fueling with carbs in the heat is so hard
(48:49) The most commonly overlooked steps of stage race nutrition
(01:03:39) Should amateurs eat less carbs than pros?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, |
| 0:02.8 | that's the cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road today. |
| 0:05.5 | We are going to cover cycle cross pro tips because Nate, we have a pro with us. |
| 0:09.7 | If I be with us right here, amazing. |
| 0:11.7 | Pretty awesome. |
| 0:12.5 | We're going to cover a carb intake, but we're also going to cover why it gets so hard |
| 0:16.3 | when it's really hot. |
| 0:17.5 | That's a common thing that I forced Nate to experience at Leadville and I handed him |
| 0:21.6 | a gigantic steaming hot hydration pack full of Martin. |
| 0:25.5 | Poor guy. |
| 0:26.0 | It was, it was simmering. |
| 0:27.0 | I, and then we're also going to cover how to convert like steady state fitness into |
| 0:32.6 | punchy fitness and a bunch of other topics too. |
| 0:34.7 | So it's going to be tons of fun. |
| 0:36.4 | We've got squid bikes. |
| 0:38.3 | Have you had a dream with us? |
| 0:39.1 | It's up by me. |
| 0:40.1 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:41.5 | Good. |
| 0:41.8 | Are you feeling better? |
| 0:43.4 | A little bit. |
| 0:44.6 | Okay. |
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