Habits and Traits of Successful Athletes with USAC’s Jim Miller – Ask a Cycling Coach 344
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Jim Miller is the Chief of Sports Performance at USA Cycling and has coached more Olympic cycling medal winning athletes than any other coach in US history. Jim is a 5x Olympic Team Member and has coached his athletes to 5 Olympic medals, 6 World Championships, 10 World Championship Podiums and upwards of 60 National Championships, receiving the Order of Ikkos three times and USOC Coach of the Year two times.
Tune in as we discuss the habits and traits that Jim has recognized across high performing athletes during his career, and how you can apply those learnings to your training and racing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated |
| 0:01.3 | to making you a faster cyclist. |
| 0:02.7 | The Asuka Cycling Coach podcast |
| 0:04.0 | presented by trainer road. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee, |
| 0:05.9 | and we have a special guest with us today. |
| 0:07.4 | We have Jim Miller from USA Cycling. |
| 0:10.6 | Jim, before we have you say anything, |
| 0:12.8 | I'm gonna run through your Paul Marais |
| 0:14.0 | so to speak here, the coaching side of things. |
| 0:16.6 | See, the Chief of Sports Performance at USA Cycling. |
| 0:19.5 | You've coached more Olympic Cycling |
| 0:21.1 | medal winning athletes than any other coach in the US, |
| 0:23.7 | which is pretty awesome. |
| 0:25.6 | Five-time Olympic team member, five Olympic medals. |
| 0:28.8 | Personally, coach and Olympic medalist |
| 0:30.2 | to four consecutive Olympic games. |
| 0:31.9 | I believe that was Kristen Armstrong. |
| 0:33.2 | Is that correct? |
| 0:34.4 | That is D.D. Barron in 2004. |
| 0:38.5 | Amazing. |
| 0:39.8 | Then United States Olympic Committee coach of the year |
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