Hot Weather Tips, Rest Weeks, Aero Field Testing & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 205
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Hot weather training and racing tips, why you might not need rest weeks, tips for aerodynamic field testing and more, all covered in this week's episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast. Join us live this Thursday at 8:00am Pacific!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- How to beat hot weather
- Why you may not actually need rest weeks
- Are hiking and stair running good cross training?
- How to balance training with pregnancy
- How long can you ride in the Sweet Spot zone?
- How the digestive system reacts to a race
- Tips for riders with small hands
- Tips for aerodynamic field testing
- How to pin your race number
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:06.3 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Shad Timmerman our CEO and eight Pearson |
| 0:10.4 | Hello, and we are here to answer your cycling and traffic on related questions that you submit at trainer road calm slash podcast |
| 0:16.9 | Before we get into those questions today at first a quick congratulations to Chloe Woodruff stands pivots close Woodruff |
| 0:23.1 | We are a sponsor of the stands pivot team and she first of all earned a front row call up at the first world cup of |
| 0:30.0 | The cross country world cup of a year in Alps, Germany. She earned a front row call up in the short track race |
| 0:35.5 | And then she got six place at round one at the in the actual XCO race huge huge how important is it? |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, congrats, but how important is it to be in the front row at those high level races? |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah, so if anybody hasn't seen this race |
| 0:48.5 | We'll we'll throw a link into forum.trainer road calm just search for episode 205 |
| 0:53.0 | Which is this episode you'll be able to find it but Chad you'd mentioned that you just watched this race to but you could see |
| 0:58.7 | Conditions aside |
| 1:00.5 | You can see on that first lap |
| 1:02.5 | How big of a gap there is it's just stretches out so fast because |
| 1:07.2 | If you think about it you've got start rows of I think it's like eight riders wide maybe so and you have that all the way back on the starting grid |
| 1:14.4 | Well imagine taking that and making it single file right when you sing go single file into single track |
| 1:19.5 | It is if you're in the third row you feel like you're in a good spot |
| 1:22.3 | But once it goes single file you are a long way back like 20 seconds. Yeah, exactly |
| 1:25.8 | So then next question is isn't it like if you're in the back row |
| 1:30.0 | How hard is it then to move up to the front row like it's got to be race after race? |
| 1:33.7 | You just move up a few spots. Yes |
| 1:35.2 | You can't just go magically to the front unless you're somebody like Matthew Vanderpool or somebody like you know like these |
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