Improving Watts/Kilo, Steep Climbs, Team Time Trials and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 278
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Building your fitness to improve your watts/kilo, how to prepare for rides that finish with steep climbs, how to train for team time trials and more in Episode 278 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Building your fitness to improve your watts/kilo
- How to prepare for rides that finish with steep climbs
- How to train and practice for a team time trial
- Which Base Training is best: Sweet Spot or Traditional Base?
- Why road cyclists use smaller bottles than triathletes
- How to not litter while riding
- Derailleur adjustment and maintenance tips
- Is Beers With Chad coming back?
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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 |
| 0:05.8 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have with us trainer road and cannon dales amber peers |
| 0:10.4 | Morning everyone. We have our head coach Chad Timberman |
| 0:14.3 | Hi everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:17.2 | Hello, the gang is back together all of us instead of the three amigos from last week |
| 0:21.8 | We have the whole crew here today |
| 0:24.1 | We're gonna answer more of your cycling and triathlon related questions today |
| 0:26.7 | We're gonna go into a bunch of really cool stuff. We're gonna talk about asthma. We're gonna talk about |
| 0:32.2 | Doing some of the rapid fire questions. We're gonna get to those |
| 0:35.6 | We're gonna talk about training for climbs at the end of races and how to approach that whether it's through equipment or training tons of stuff |
| 0:42.4 | It's gonna be great. We're glad you're with us as first things first though a few thank yous that we need to give out |
| 0:47.7 | So first of all happy birthday to the trainer road forum |
| 0:51.1 | Really exciting. It's it's by my measure |
| 0:53.6 | It seems like it's definitely the most active forum and cycling |
| 0:56.6 | But I could be wrong who knows but it's a great place to be tons of people getting answers about how to get faster |
| 1:02.0 | Asking their questions about it sharing cool stuff really cool and supportive internet community |
| 1:06.6 | Which is hard to find these days |
| 1:08.7 | Which is pretty cool. So and with that as well |
| 1:11.3 | We have to give a big thank you to the moderator on that forum. So first of all |
| 1:16.4 | We've had Bryce Lewis who's one of our community managers. He was present on that now IV she is awesome our current community manager |
| 1:23.1 | She's so great and one person that's really helped the forum together and does so much work for it |
| 1:28.5 | He's not a trainer road employee and we don't pay him to do this |
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