How to Race Dominant Teams with Clif Bar Racing – Ask a Cycling Coach 247
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Team Clif Bar joins the podcast to discuss racing against teams with dominant team tactics including how to deal with strong leadouts, finding other options to win and more in Episode 247 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Why dominant teams are so hard to challenge in a bike race
- How a good sprint leadout train shuts down attacks
- Why it is so hard to move past a leadout train
- The best options to counter a team with a dominant leadout
- How to know if you are in the right breakaway
- Why don't other teams just make a counter-leadout?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the Ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.6 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee. We are clearly not in our studio right now |
| 0:08.8 | We are at the croquet property of the cliff family farm right now with team cliff bar racing. How's it going guys? |
| 0:14.6 | Very good. So that's Pete more so we're sharing a mic. So this is gonna be fun |
| 0:20.5 | So get used to that |
| 0:22.0 | So Pete Morris from team cliff bar racing and trainer road of course and then over on this side |
| 0:26.1 | We have Zach Allison as well. How you doing Zach? Good. How are you? How's it going? |
| 0:28.8 | I'm doing great man. It's good to have you on and Joe Lewis as well from the team. How's it going? |
| 0:33.6 | Joe you are I mean Joe and Zach and Kevin in this case all returning |
| 0:37.6 | I guess Kevin Mullerby. Hey guys how's it going? Good to have you man. Thank you |
| 0:41.8 | Today we're gonna break down a topic that I feel like a lot of people have questions about or perhaps don't ask these questions |
| 0:49.3 | And they should ask these questions |
| 0:51.2 | It's how to deal with dominant teams and the team that comes to mind like right now |
| 0:54.8 | That a lot of people know about is like Legion right like Legion seems like unbeatable before that |
| 0:59.0 | It was like you H.C. We're talking like domestic crit scene |
| 1:02.5 | Team sky at the pro tour level and a lot of ways kind of like occupied this role is like an unbeatable team |
| 1:07.7 | And chances are if you're listening to this and you race bikes you have |
| 1:11.5 | Some sort of team in your local region. It's like the team |
| 1:15.5 | And it's easy to fall into that rut where you just think that they're unbeatable and man that sucks to race bikes that way |
| 1:21.0 | You guys are known for kind of in debarro a tour to France commentator saying but throw the cat amongst the pigeons so to speak |
| 1:28.2 | racing aggressively |
| 1:30.3 | So I want to break down today what |
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