Group Ride Tactics, Green Tea, Overreaching and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 213
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Group ride tactics to help you move through the field, how green tea affects endurance performance, how to recognize, overcome and avoid overreaching and much more, all covered in Episode 213 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• Update on TrainerRoad Pricing
• Green Tea’s effect on performance
• How to hold momentum through corners
• The history of how Nate met Chad, Pete, and Jonathan
• How to deal with mid-workout interruptions
• Tips to improve confidence racing crits
• How to brake while cornering
• Cat 2 to Cat 1 upgrade strategies
• What is overreaching and what does it feel like?
• How to factor in mobility when choosing your bike
• What is better: a TT bike, or a road bike with aero-extensions?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. They ask a cycling coach podcast presented by Trina road. I am not Jonathan Lee. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Nate Pearson and I'm not a coach, but with me today is head coach Chad Timberman. Hello. |
| 0:14.5 | Still a lot. |
| 0:16.0 | And Pete Morris. How do you guys? Hello, so Jonathan right now he's at Nationals mountain bike Nationals in what is it Colorado? |
| 0:23.7 | Yeah, in Winter Park. Yep, really up high. He is trying to win. |
| 0:28.4 | Well, actually he's got like a two year kind of trajectory to win. This is more of a recon for |
| 0:33.4 | Experience because next year is at the same place. I don't know if it's the same course or not |
| 0:38.1 | But to set expectations for everyone we just talked about before he left |
| 0:41.9 | He was |
| 0:43.2 | He's probably around three oh five right now for FTP at 142 and to win he thinks he needs to be at 340 or 350 |
| 0:51.2 | So imagine racing yourself at 30 watts less like it's hard to win. It's hard to win |
| 0:56.7 | People could get flats though, so yep, there's something always happens |
| 0:59.9 | I think I'm not biking. It's less likely for it to win |
| 1:01.8 | But it's gonna take a bit of luck to get him a top five to get him on the podium by his own admission |
| 1:05.9 | Yeah, by his own admission, but this is like a building step to the future |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, you'll know not a lot better next year. What is it in for yeah? |
| 1:12.3 | So this is your first time listening to this podcast. I would just skip this episode because this is the first no second time |
| 1:18.1 | I've hosted I guess but I'm not very good at it. So listen to the next one of the one before and then come back to this one and |
| 1:24.2 | You'll see the difference |
| 1:26.3 | Okay, so the first thing I want to talk about is the something that happened this week pricing update we updated our prices on Monday |
| 1:34.1 | And then in the forum there was some discussion about it and there's one line of thing that people talked about that |
| 1:40.7 | kind of got to us and |
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