How to Do a 4hr Century, Training Zones, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 372
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Ice Friction / The Feed’s Alex Wild and Squid Bikes’ Ivy Audrain join us to discuss how to achieve your fastest 100mi possible, whether training at the bottom or top of a zone really makes a difference, and much more in Episode 372 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(01:39) Alex’s learnings from Crusher in The Tushar
(17:21) Does training at the top or bottom of a zone make a difference?
(25:55) Singlespeed training, and how it can help geared athletes
(36:43) How to ride the fastest 100mi possible
(01:03:40) A pro’s perspective on standing vs. seated climbing
(01:24:56) What factors you should consider when deciding to use an aero helmet
(01:45:06) Live Questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.2 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timberman |
| 0:08.4 | Hey everybody squid bikes IV Audraine |
| 0:11.5 | Hey, how's it going? And then we also have ice friction and specialized and the feeds Alex wild. It's up Alex |
| 0:18.4 | You guys good to have you Alex is nearby. We could have all and IVs nearby |
| 0:22.9 | We could have almost recorded an in person one |
| 0:25.0 | But Chad you had to sit in the northwest and you know, whatever, but we can make do |
| 0:31.0 | So today we are going to discuss |
| 0:34.2 | How to set like how to do a fast 100 mile time? We're gonna talk through a bunch of different things |
| 0:38.7 | We're gonna talk about a five-hour time that an athlete sent in but then we're also gonna talk about how to do a four-hour century |
| 0:43.6 | And I basically want to convince you Chad to come down and do that with me because I think that you could do a |
| 0:48.1 | Dark good job with this any who we're gonna talk about that |
| 0:50.4 | We're gonna talk about training at the bottom versus the top of the zones whether that makes a difference and lots of different things |
| 0:55.9 | It's gonna be good |
| 0:56.5 | But first things first head over to our YouTube channel and check out we just released our latest cycling science explained video |
| 1:03.2 | It goes into sprint intensity training much like Chad did on the podcast |
| 1:07.1 | Basically Chad does all the hard work and then I just put it into a YouTube video |
| 1:11.9 | Just regurgitated in a more palatable manner. There we go. Hey, that's it. It makes sense at all, but yeah |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, yeah, the bad usage of the word palatable Chad |
| 1:21.0 | But yes anyways, people are loving its fantastic video go in there check it out. We've got another one coming up soon |
| 1:26.9 | So go to our YouTube channel that's youtube.com slash trainer road and if you're watching this live right now |
| 1:31.7 | Give it a thumbs up rate the podcast share it with your friends. That's a huge help |
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