How To Get More Aero, Time Trial Recon, Trainer Calibration & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 145
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2018
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
A deep dive into aerodynamic testing, how to recon a TT like a pro, smart trainer calibration and more in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• When should you do a spin down calibration on your smart trainer?
• How to calibrate a smart trainer
• Cheat snacking for endurance athletes
• How to healthily use food as motivation for endurance athletes
• How ERO testing works
• Things to know before you ride a velodrome
• What is CdA and why it matters to cyclists
• How to find your CdA
• How to lower your CdA
• Why power to weight doesn't matter for flat time trials
• Why time trialists should overlap their hands
• How to find the balance between aero and power
• What makes a helmet more aero than another?
• How to find the right TT helmet
• How to get lower on a TT bike
• How to use CdA to plan a race
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, the Asuka cycling |
| 0:03.9 | coach podcast presented by trainer road coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timberman. |
| 0:08.8 | Our buddy, our CEO Nate Pearson. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello. |
| 0:10.9 | And we are going to answer some cycling and traffic unrelated questions that you've submitted |
| 0:14.8 | today. You can do so at trainer road.com slash podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | But we're also going to talk a lot about us today, but more specifically what we've learned |
| 0:22.1 | recently with a lot of aerodynamic testing. |
| 0:25.1 | We went down to Carson, California to the only Olympic level Velodrome in the United |
| 0:29.9 | States, which I did not know was the only one. |
| 0:32.8 | And we did aerodynamic testing with with aerosport down there, which is really cool. |
| 0:38.3 | We did a lot of stuff because we're working on becoming faster time trialists or even |
| 0:42.4 | producing a whole documentary on this on on all the things we're doing and learning to |
| 0:46.5 | become faster time trialists. |
| 0:47.6 | And then all of you can then add those things or apply those things to your training and |
| 0:51.8 | racing and everything else. |
| 0:53.5 | So we went down there. |
| 0:54.2 | And this is a big step for it. |
| 0:55.3 | And we're going to talk a lot about that today because I think we found some really interesting |
| 0:59.3 | stuff that can help some folks. |
| 1:01.1 | And also now we have really good fodder and basis for our arguments about why we're going |
| 1:05.3 | to beat each other. |
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