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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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(00:00) Welcome!
(00:40) Training Between Races
(01:34) Mediterranean Epic and Training Insights
(05:11) Cadence and Bike Setup
(08:06) Tucson Training Block
(10:13) Sea Otter Race Challenges
(16:04) Mental Resilience and Moving Forward
(21:29) Upcoming Races and Strategy
(25:48) Listener Questions and Training Tips
(39:28) Building Confidence in Your Choices
(42:02) Managing Social Media's Impact on Athletes
(49:39) Finding the Ideal Brake Lever Angle
(57:05) Balancing Training and Recovery
(59:24) Optimizing Training for Better Performance
Coach Jonathan Lee and pro cyclist Hannah Otto discuss the delicate balance of training and recovery. Hannah shares her insights on training strategies, managing social media during race weeks, and bike setup tips for optimal performance. The episode also includes a deep dive into an athlete's training calendar to identify areas for improvement, revealing the benefits of structuring your workouts and focusing on recovery.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road. |
0:03.0 | I am coach Jonathan Lee. |
0:04.2 | We are today with Hannah Otto from Scott Bikes, competitive cyclists, Perlizumi, Shmano, Fox, |
0:10.8 | all the different brands. |
0:11.9 | Hannah, I'm stoked to have you on. |
0:14.8 | You, last time we had you on, and by the way, if you're wondering, |
0:18.4 | Hannah Otto is a professional gravel racer, mountain bike racer, |
0:21.0 | endurance athlete in general, triathlete background, has won the Leadville 100, has had set the |
0:28.4 | FKT on the Cocoa Pelly Trail. There's a bunch of things like that, but more importantly, |
0:33.1 | Han is an incredible person. You can follow her on social media, get an insight into what it's |
0:37.0 | like to be a professional athlete. That's what we're going to do today. A good portion of this is going to |
0:41.7 | be getting into your experience and how you have managed everything with your training and all that |
0:47.9 | stuff. You did a Mediterranean epic in the spring. And then you had a pretty like decent sized window in between then and |
0:56.0 | sea otter. Now the Mediterranean Epic is a stage race. You were coming in. That was your, I think that |
1:02.4 | was your first race of the year. Is that right? Yeah. So you come in, you do that stage race. You |
1:07.3 | probably experience like a big boost in fitness. And then you have kind of like |
1:11.2 | this, what was it, like a six week, maybe long? About six weeks. Yeah. Okay. What in the world did |
1:17.1 | you do with yourself for six weeks, right? Like do you go back to base training? Did you go like, |
1:23.3 | did you try to ride the wave? Because us amateurs would do that and we would probably just be so stoked. |
1:29.1 | It's like we just got this new fitness and it's like a new toy that we want to play with and use. |
1:34.3 | How did you structure your training in between then and then a very consequential, like important thing, the start of the Lifetime Grand Prix? |
1:42.5 | Yeah, I do think it's a really delicate |
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