Enduro, Limiters, Peaking Too Soon and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 218
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Tune in live for Episode 218 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast where we will be discussing our takeaways after racing Enduro World Series, how to find your limiters as a time trialist, how to tell if you've reached peak fitness and much more.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Why Enduro is such a cool and hard racing format
- How to pace a cyclocross race
- Efficiency tips for cyclocross
- Pro tips for cleaning your kit
- Can small riders still be good time trialists?
- How to find your limiter in time trials
- What is the best testing protocol for outside riding?
- Good and bad foods for carb loading
- Exactly how many carbs should you eat for training?
- How to race a criterium without surges
- How to tell if you've peaked
- How long should you wait after a peak to train
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.7 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman. Hello our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello |
| 0:11.1 | And we're gonna answer more your cycling and draft on related questions today |
| 0:14.4 | You can submit them at trainer road calm slash podcast and just recently actually and you can join us every week on YouTube |
| 0:20.4 | By the way, it's pretty fun. It's usually Thursday at 8 a.m. Pacific |
| 0:23.8 | It's cool to have listeners joining us there |
| 0:26.2 | You can chat with other listeners. You can ask questions |
| 0:28.7 | Then we usually answer those at the end and also on our YouTube channel |
| 0:31.9 | We just put up a whole series of a playlist of videos. It was actually first person footage |
| 0:38.3 | That I from my camera during EWS North star and for those that don't know what EWS is |
| 0:43.2 | That's the Enduro World Series sets the premier Enduro series in the world Enduro World Series |
| 0:50.1 | So it's but it's it's got the best Enduro racers there are |
| 0:53.3 | It's all in the name. It's believe it or not |
| 0:55.6 | if best Enduro racers out there and |
| 0:58.8 | Then us average Joe's I get the opportunity to raise something called the EWS 100 which just means you do 100% of the course |
| 1:05.6 | And that's the one that I did and holy cow it was insanely tough |
| 1:11.4 | Okay, I just want to say something. Yeah producer Tucker |
| 1:14.8 | Can you please put links to each one of these videos that we did but also in Slack Jonathan put two videos of like |
| 1:21.8 | Side footage because you get what's called the GoPro effect where it doesn't it's to your footage looks gnarly |
| 1:26.4 | Yeah, but it's not as gnarly as race day. Yeah, so you watched pro |
| 1:29.9 | So these rock gardens. Yes, and like dying. What was the so this North star? |
| 1:34.1 | That's where we go and train sometimes I've never ridden any of these trails that you've done |
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