Faster Category Upgrades, Saddle Discomfort, Blood Donation & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 130
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
How to upgrade categories faster, getting rid of saddle discomfort, and how giving blood affects fitness. All of this and more in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• TrainerRoad Party at Cyclocross National Championships!
• We're hiring software engineers! Apply here: trainerroad.recruiterbox.com/
• Why you should sync Strava and Garmin Connect to TrainerRoad
• Everything you need to know about category upgrades in road racing
• How many points do you need to upgrade to the next category?
• Do you get more points for a road race than a crit?
• How to upgrade road race categories faster
• What is a good FTP?
• How fit are professional motorcycle racers?
• How to fit big weekend rides into your training plan
• What to carry with you on long rides
• Should you carry your spares in your jersey or saddle bag?
• How to extend base training
• How to extend your training plan
• Why your saddle is uncomfortable
• How to find the right saddle
• Why your saddle isn't the cause of your discomfort
• What makes a good saddle
• What makes a good bibshort
• Stretches and exercises to fix saddle discomfort
• How to maintain cycling fitness while training for a marathon
• Does giving blood make you slower?
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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 |
| 0:05.5 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, and we are live on Facebook once again |
| 0:12.9 | You can join us there just look up train road on Facebook and you can submit your questions to us at trainroad.com |
| 0:17.9 | slash podcast and this is where we answer those questions every week and whether it's cycling or triathlon related whatever it is |
| 0:24.2 | Before we get into the questions though |
| 0:25.7 | We have some some quick items to cover firstly |
| 0:30.1 | Cyclostyle cross nationals is coming up soon. I think it's six weeks away now guys |
| 0:35.1 | It's really close. Yeah, and it's in our backyard here in Reno |
| 0:38.4 | So we're pretty excited about it and for anybody that's coming to national championships in the US of course here for cyclost |
| 0:44.4 | Let us know and then we're going to be having a big event going on at our office the night before we'll have more details on this soon |
| 0:51.9 | But it's gonna be a ton of fun. You'll get to come hang out. We're gonna do a live podcast recording and live stream it as well |
| 0:57.1 | And we're looking to have some special guests. It's gonna be a pretty cool event |
| 1:00.7 | So that's that's one announcement Nate. I think you have some too. Yeah, we have another announcement is right now |
| 1:05.1 | This is what but just about December 1st and 2017 and we are hiring three software engineers |
| 1:11.6 | You can look it up on stack overflow or oh geez, I forgot the URL. I think it's trainer road.com slash jobs |
| 1:17.1 | And you're gonna apply for that now. It's a C sharp. These are gonna be dedicated web engineers. We're looking for |
| 1:25.2 | Back in guys or front in guys who know angular to 2x kind of thing so |
| 1:30.0 | Chad, I know all about that. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome |
| 1:32.4 | Told you to be to me get to work on we got some new stuff coming and we got to hire more people to make it happen |
| 1:37.8 | So cool awesome and then one other thing that we wanted to mention something that you mentioned some new stuff and some of the |
| 1:45.8 | Oh, yeah, exciting. Here's it's okay. So |
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