Endurance MTB Deep Dive With The Pros – Ask a Cycling Coach 161

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🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Pro mountain bike racers Payson McElveen and Sofía Gomez Villafañe joined us live from the main stage at the Epic Rides Carson City Off-Road for a deep dive on endurance mountain bike training and racing.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

- How do pros taper for endurance mtb races
- What do pro mountain bikers eat?
- How to choose between a hardtail and full suspension
- How the pros handle flat tires in a mountain bike race
- How to pace a long mountain bike race
- How to get by slower riders on singletrack
- Pro tips for sandy descents
- How the pros handle on the bike nutrition
- What type of training do pros do during the race season
- How to resist cravings and maintain race weight
- What the pros do to adjust for high elevation
- How pros make their tire choices

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0:00.0	Everybody welcome to Carson City off road live podcast. We have one guy that's excited in the corner
0:06.3	There we go we're stoked to have you guys here
0:08.8	We have two of the best mountain bikers in the country and even in the world with us right now
0:12.1	It's pretty awesome. So fia Gomez, Biafanya and Paisa McElvin can you give them a round of applause everybody?
0:22.1	All right, so
0:24.1	If you don't know so I'm a what the British will call a punter just an average Joe and Nate on the other side also an average Joe
0:31.2	But we're coaches and we like to try to make people faster especially through this podcast
0:35.4	So we dig into all the details we have to try really hard to be fast and do all that stuff
0:40.4	So we get into the details. That's what we're gonna do here
0:43.3	So first off we're gonna talk about Carson City off road and how you prepped for this event and and how you guys are gonna execute for this event
0:51.7	So I guess starting first at the eusofia the first thing I want to ask is when you come into a race like this
0:56.9	You have a fat tire crick coming in, but how do you end up? How do you change your training?
1:01.6	Do you like ramp up into something like this?
1:03.7	Or do you just rest and go easy? How what's your final week look like before an event like this?
1:08.4	You know this week has been really different for me. I
1:12.7	This isn't very good. Sorry. This week has been really different for me
1:16.7	I came off from a week off racing like two weeks ago
1:20.4	So then I raised Mizua Montana last weekend, and that was a really good opener
1:24.0	So I basically just did recovery. I did a three-hour endurance day and recovery recovery the crit was a great opener and another
1:31.4	Recovery day today. I have improved in the course much just because saving the likes for Sunday is all that matters
1:37.8	So is that like a really light week for you? Yeah, like normally if I'm training I'm anywhere between 12-18
1:45.6	So for you, Pason, what are you doing when you come into a week like this that you didn't race, Mizua?
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