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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

First Race Expectations, Beating the Breakaway, Rest Week Diets and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 242

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 125 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Setting expectations for the first race of the season, race tactics for when you miss the break, what to eat during a rest week and more is all covered in Episode 242 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast. 

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Pete's takeaways from The Coast Ride
  • Tips to find the best gravel bike for you
  • Setting expectations for the first race of the season
  • How to add aerobic rides for effective training
  • The power of taking notes during training
  • What should you eat during a rest week?
  • How to plan your outdoor workouts for the most benefit
  • Race tactics for when you miss the break
  • Nutrition planning tips for long events

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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

0:05.8

And coach Jonathan Lee our head coach had some room and is not with us

0:09.4

So instead we have cliff bar racing and trainer roads Pete Morris. Thanks for having me guys. Yeah, thanks for coming on Pete

0:14.5

It's the best. This is one of my favorite things I get to do. We like having him. It's pretty great and our CEO Nate Pearson

0:19.5

Hello, how you doing? Good. How are you doing? Yeah, good. You look like you're looking for something frantically. I am okay

0:25.7

Keep talking. Oh my God. That's good. You can see what Nate would be looking for if you go on to YouTube.com slash trainer road

0:32.2

You can join us every week live

0:33.6

It's usually Thursday at 8 a.m. Pacific

0:35.6

It's a fun time

0:36.6

You can join all the other podcast listeners that are on live in the live chat ask questions get answers and

0:41.9

Possibly even see what's what we're talking about here when we talk about things so

0:45.7

You should join us on there and if you're listening on any podcast app you can share a review on that and that would do us a huge favor

0:51.5

First things for something to share

0:53.7

We put up a pretty cool tool here and and kudos to Dom one of a very fast-truthly and cyclist who also works here for trainer road

1:02.3

an awesome designer and he built a strength training for cyclist calculator

1:06.0

So if you think back to a handful of months ago

1:09.0

We kind of put out or we did put out

1:12.0

Strength training recommendations kind of like benchmarks where we feel like this is a good idea to be if you're this sort of rider

1:18.1

Having these sort of or this level of strength is a good idea. Yeah, the idea is like

1:23.9

When should I stop building and when can I just maintain because that's a common question?

1:27.9

Yeah, exactly like when do I stop or not stop?

1:30.4

But when do I like not focus on just increasing my lifts every week?

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