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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Fueling Short Workouts, Bike Choices, Spring Classics and More with Cannondale Pro Amber Pierce – Ask a Cycling Coach 237

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 122 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Special guest Amber Pierce joins the team to talk about fueling for short workouts, the pros and cons of a CX bike vs a road bike, pro tips for big one-day races and more in Episode 237 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Amber Pierce is back!
  • Plan Builder is now available!
  • The pros and cons of a CX bike vs a road bike
  • What to do if you can't put out the same power on different bikes
  • Tips to qualify for Ironman 70.3 Worlds
  • Should you fuel for short workouts?
  • Pro tips for big one-day races
  • Strategies to win a scratch race
  • Training and support to climb Haleakalā

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:05.7

I'm coach Jonathan Lee. We do not have our head coach chat to remember with us instead

0:09.6

We have special guest Amber Pierce. How you doing? I'm doing great. Thanks. Awesome. Good to have you and we have our CEO Nate Pearson

0:16.8

Hello, and we should probably start off with some news Amber first things first

0:20.8

Mm-hmm. She's not a special guest anymore. No, she's welcome to the team

0:24.2

Yes, Amber we ha we are hired in product managers and Amber is one of the product managers

0:28.8

We hired so now she is going to design stuff for everyone to use at Trader Road super excited about this

0:34.8

Yeah, and I'm sad to have you

0:37.1

So Amber lives in Connecticut and so anytime she's in Reno she's gonna be on the podcast and I think we're gonna be able to do the the race analysis

0:44.9

Where Pete tells me what I'm gonna do bad Amber will also tell me when we do bad and I think we can do that remote

0:49.9

I think every single one of those she can be on that. Yeah, that's gonna be fun. I'm amazing

0:54.6

So for host pretty exciting stuff. Yeah

0:57.4

So yeah and Amber I guess let's share some because it's been a while since you've been on yeah

1:01.4

Sure, and if you ever want and you want to find podcasts the Amber was on prior just go to

1:06.4

Just search ask a cycling coach podcast Amber Pierce and then you'll be able to find all the episodes

1:10.6

They'll pop up right there on soundcloud or on our blog any of the different spots so you can find it there

1:15.0

So yeah, what's new with you? Not a whole lot. I've been

1:19.0

Working on a few new projects. So obviously since we last talk I'd mentioned that I'm shifting from full-time racing to more outreach

1:24.7

So I've been working on a few clinics

1:27.0

I've got a fun project coming up next year the be a good wheel campaign

1:31.1

So stay tuned for more on that should be fun

1:34.8

Yeah, and working for trainer wrote again, but what so some people don't know who you are yet

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