Welcome to the podcast that's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, the Ask A Cycling Coach

podcast presented by trainer Road. I'm Coach John Finley and we have with us here, Pivot Cycles and D.T. Swiss's

Hannah Auto. Stuck to have you, Hannah. Thanks, thanks for having me.

Yeah, you've got a race coming up this weekend.

If people are going to be listening to this, they'll be listening to it on a Thursday if it comes out

or perhaps you're listening to it afterward in the archive but you're going to be

racing Belgium Waffle Ride Utah and I want to talk to you about that because I've

been looking at the forecast because I think a lot of athletes are going to target

this race. It's prior to the Lifetime Grand Prix so it's kind of like a good chance to kind of get the wiggles out before you really jump into the full racing against everybody.

But it's going to be real cold if the forecast holds. It's changing like every hour so we'll see but can we

talk a little bit about what you do when you see a race coming up that's like

freezing cold possibly wet windy, kind of like all the elements going against you.

Like how are you managing that?

Because a lot of athletes see that and they're just like, oh, I'm like, I've lost already, I'm done, done you know but how do you do it?

Well first I check the weather every hour hoping it will change.

No but it is it is so funny because exactly like you said I'm using this as a training race which is something I know we talk a lot about on this podcast is

not every race is an A race, some races you do,

you know, for training, for preparation for other races.

So just like you said, this is a preparation opportunity

for C-Oder for the first event in the Lifetime

Grand Prix and so I signed up for it and then after I signed up for it I looked at

the weather and my jaw dropped. I mean the whole week is basically in the 60s and then out of nowhere

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