Kona Special Interview – David Nicholls – Ask a Cycling Coach 179
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A 09:26:42 finish earned David Nicholls a slot at this year’s @ironman World Championship. To hear how this first-time Kona qualifier trained and set expectations for Saturday, listen to the latest special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Where David Nicholls qualified
- Equipment check with David Nicholls
- How to choose between a triathlon shoe vs a regular cycling shoe
- Balancing work, family, and training
- How to balance bike, run, and swim training for an IRONMAN
- Cutting certain workouts to prioritize work and/or family
- How to avoid injury as a triathlete
- How do triathletes manage their nutrition?
- Why would you get yourself off of caffeine before a big race?
- Dealing with heat and humidity when coming from a different environment
- How to use a sauna for heat training
- How to gauge your time for Kona
- How to make transitions quick and efficient
- Pacing for the bike split in an IRONMAN
- Pacing for the marathon in an IRONMAN
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Transcript
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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 |
| 0:05.8 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee again here with her head coach Chad Timmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:10.6 | Hey, hey, and another special guest with us live from Kona David Nichols. How you doing David? Yeah, very good |
| 0:16.1 | Thank you. So you are a trainer road user absolutely. Yeah, Kona qualifier and |
| 0:21.4 | We are going to talk to you just like we actually a previous podcast. It was just published other day before this |
| 0:26.6 | We're going to talk to you a little bit about how you have worked through and navigated through all the different circumstances |
| 0:32.6 | Necessary to qualify for Kona and then hopefully we can glean some useful information out of this |
| 0:37.4 | But before we do that we should start off with a few things |
| 0:41.1 | Number one |
| 0:42.4 | Can you let us know where you qualified and what your qualifying splits were? Yeah, sure |
| 0:47.1 | So I qualified at South Africa in April championship race my over time was nine 26 |
| 0:52.7 | So fast |
| 0:54.2 | It's quite fast on a pretty slow course, but actually the guy who won my age got 850 something |
| 0:59.7 | So I mean, wow, I'm 30 to 34. So yeah, it's a fast |
| 1:03.7 | Eight for those who know yeah, yeah, exactly, but yeah, I swam 57 minutes. I rode 506 and then ran a three three 17 |
| 1:11.0 | Wow, well, that's so that's good fast. Yeah, very fast. That's a really good bike split actually five yeah |
| 1:16.8 | Five seven. Yeah, it's good for the the course. Yeah, because very a lot of headwind and very very bad quality road |
| 1:22.6 | So what do you what bike do you ride I ride a BMC time machine? Okay, what's what size like how tall are you roughly? |
| 1:28.5 | I'm six foot, okay |
| 1:30.5 | And it's it's a medium I guess yeah a medium. Okay, got your weight |
| 1:35.4 | Well race weight is just under 66 kilograms |
| 1:37.7 | So and then FTP and this is in the Euro position if you know that yeah, right? |
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