Dominant Team Tactics, Pre-Workout Snacks, Understanding CTL & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 204
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Join us live this Thursday at 8:00 am Pacific for this week's Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast for discussions on dominant team tactics, the best pre-workout snacks, a guide to understanding CTL and more!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- What to pay attention to when you pre-ride a course
- Tire pressure: how low is too low?
- Why you should start with lower pressure than you think
- How to develop a Plan B race strategy
- Pacing long climbs
- A guide to understanding CTL
- Why are you always out of breath climbing stairs?
- Should you ride with a flat or rounded back?
- Why you can put out power on climbs, but not flats
- How to be fast on flat terrain
- Should you eat beans before your next workout?
- How to counter a dominant team
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.5 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman hard buddy our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. Hey, you just said hello this time |
| 0:11.4 | That's good |
| 0:12.6 | And this is where we answer your cycling and travel on related questions |
| 0:15.4 | You submit at trainer road calm slash podcast |
| 0:18.0 | You appreciate you submitting them. There were some great ones this week |
| 0:20.6 | We went through that list and built up some questions that we feel like could make for some interesting and informative |
| 0:25.8 | Conversation did some research on them and it's gonna be great. We're happy that you're with us |
| 0:30.4 | Thanks for joining us live too. You can do that on Facebook and YouTube |
| 0:33.7 | It's usually Thursday at 8 a.m. Pacific like we're recording right now |
| 0:36.6 | Sometimes it changes and to stay tuned for updates on that you can just check out forum. Train road calm |
| 0:42.1 | Stay tuned to our social channels that sort of a thing and then you can follow through with that before we get into the questions a few things |
| 0:48.1 | First of all congratulations to Rose Grant |
| 0:50.8 | She won cross country marathon nationals with a massive margin |
| 0:54.8 | This is big for her. She's number one. She rides for the stands pivot team presented by Maxis |
| 0:59.7 | They are we're also a team sponsor of that team as well and |
| 1:03.5 | So she's a trainer road user and she has been struggling for the past like three years with some pretty severe injury shoulders knees |
| 1:09.6 | Everything else. This is like a really big thing coming back for her. So really excited how much did she win by I think she won by six minutes |
| 1:16.2 | Wow, yeah, so and they had huge and congrats all the athletes there |
| 1:20.1 | It sounded like a brutal day because they had rains that almost disqualified the race beforehand |
| 1:24.6 | Mm-hmm. This and then they just had crazy conditions sounds like it was like a really hard like technical long marathon race |
| 1:31.4 | So a good job Rose way to go |
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