Group Ride Tactics, Cross-Training, Rebounding After a Bad Race & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 132
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Tactics and etiquette to help you own your next group ride, what cyclists should know about cross-training, and how to rebound from a disappointing result. All of this and more in Episode 132 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! www.TrainerRoad.com/jobs
• Why you should sync Strava and Garmin Connect to TrainerRoad
• What every racer should know about number pinning
• Dealing with doctors as an endurance athlete
• How important is power/weight?
• Should you use your TT bike on the trainer?
• How to use cross-training for cyclists
• How to nail interval workouts outside
• Can long course triathletes use MTB for training?
• Your guide to nailing an FTP test
• How to avoid hand pain for cyclists
• How to deal with disappointing results
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the |
| 0:03.8 | Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road coach Jonathan Lee with |
| 0:07.7 | our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson hello and we are |
| 0:12.4 | going to answer more of your cycling and traffic on related questions today |
| 0:15.4 | a decent amount of traffic on related ones today actually so boom good stuff |
| 0:19.9 | for the triathletes before we do that we have our typical run through of a few |
| 0:24.4 | things that we want to cover first we are going to be having an athlete panel |
| 0:29.0 | it's going to be awesome with the both the pros during cycle cross nationals |
| 0:32.9 | so here at trainer road HQ if you are here for crossnats you can what if |
| 0:37.9 | you're not here you can tune in live for the live stream it's going to be |
| 0:41.2 | pretty awesome so if you are here in person it's going to be a ton of fun we'll |
| 0:45.6 | have some light drinks and refreshments you'll get to mingle and chat with |
| 0:48.9 | the pros to be pretty cool so can we take Facebook live questions and ask the |
| 0:53.9 | pros yes we can so if you granted not a lot of people in the world they're going |
| 0:58.6 | to be a cyclic cross nationals all things considered so so yeah that'll be |
| 1:02.1 | helpful for them so cool yeah and that covers that stay tuned for more |
| 1:06.8 | information on the guests on the exact times and everything else but it looks |
| 1:10.6 | like it's going to be the night before the pros race so it looks like it will be |
| 1:13.8 | that Saturday before so that's pretty yeah it's not too late okay it's |
| 1:18.6 | pretty early so shouldn't be too bad your sick don't show up yeah yeah |
| 1:23.6 | mate speaking of cyclic cross so I haven't been racing cross Chad you haven't |
| 1:30.3 | been racing cross I've been doing much of anything right and then I'm and I'm |
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