Welcome to a very special episode of the Ask of Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road.

This week we are joined by the Cominsol Anduro Project or Cominsol Bikes,

Alex Rudo, the current EDR world champion. And some of you listening to this might not know what

EDR is EDR is the Enduro world champion that's what we're talking about here

with Alex at Enduro has we used to be separate from the UCI, now it's with

the UCI, so they refer to it as EDR because the UCI really loves acronyms.

So that's what they've stuck with. Alex just won recently in

Vallefasa in Italy just won in Duro world championships. It's a huge feat and

for people that don't understand the racing format we've discussed it before on the podcast but it's very similar to rally car racing where you will have multiple stages and across those multiple stages you'll have to complete them within a specific time

window. So and then you don't get to have like a team that's following you around to give you nutrition and to work on your bike.

You have to be self-sufficient throughout the course of the day and you have specific times

where you might be able to stop in at a pit stop and get some assistance but when you're out on the trail it's all up to you.

Typically the courses tend to be very technical, steep but also mixed in with pedaling.

It's like a perfect balance of man and machine and fitness and skill that you have to have and it's a really really interesting sport.

Really one like a discipline of cycling that I think people would really really one of

a discipline of cycling that I think people would really love.

Alex, we actually, one of our employees here, Cedric, he's a friend of yours,

and Cedric mentioned the fact that he's like hey Alex uses trainer road he just won world

championships and I had no clue that you had used trainer road and I thought that was amazing because of course I've

seen you and followed your racing for a really long time now.

I want to talk about your training and the things that you've done to get to a world

championship level and I think they're the best place to start because how we introduce ourselves basically as

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