Welcome to the podcast it's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist.

Ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer Road and today I'm very excited to have a

special guest with us back here on the podcast again. It's Dr. Chris Minson

from University of Oregon with the Bowerman Track Club

and everything else that goes on

at the Human Performance Center there

at University of Oregon.

Chris, you recently reached out

after we were talking about heat,

some trends that we've seen

with heat and some other things and you were like,

I would really love to share some more information. I am so glad you did. We're excited to have you on here and especially

considering the time of year. This is pre-Olympics and you're probably quite a busy man. What have you been working on lately and

I assume you've been had some athletes that are focused on building toward the Olympics?

Absolutely, yeah, Jonathan, thank you so much for having me on and to all the trainer road team.

I, as you know, I did a podcast with you guys quite a while ago and I just loved it.

I mean I love what you guys do.

You guys have, I think, the best product around and I'm a user I'm a believer and the science you

guys cover is again really some of the best in all the sports science

podcast so I'm stoked very very still to be brought it back. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, so like you said, you know, it's an interesting time of year. Climate change is driving a lot of things. A lot of big events. We just had the Olympic trials for track and field here in Eugene and four years ago when we held it before the Japan Olympics

ended being 100 some odd degrees here, Fahrenheit, and made that changes who wins and who doesn't sometimes. Luckily in that

case Japan was Hot Olympics. So Paris has the potential to be hot as well so I've

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