Kona Special Interview – Michael Stanek – Ask a Cycling Coach 181
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Michael Stanek is a young athlete with a background in Freestyle BMX, of all things, but more impressive is how he managed to qualify for Kona amidst 80 hour weeks and night shifts while finishing his Residency. Listen in to find out how Mike accomplished this and how he arrived at having such a detailed race plan.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Where Michael Qualified and what his times were
- Michael's claim to fame
- Flats vs Clipless pedals in BMX
- How to go faster on the swim. It's not all about fitness in the water
- How to improve swimming technique
- Does pacing come naturally when you start training for running?
- Visor, sweatband, or hat during the run?
- Avoiding cramping during an endurance event
- Michael's bike setup
- Aero road helmet vs TT helmet for Kona
- Michael's power goals for Kona
- Nutrition on the run vs on the bike
- Training for triathlon while going through residency. How is that possible?
- Making the decision to take out a workout or not
- Day before nutrition for Kona
- Can you have a beer or two before a race and not be effected?
- Using electrolyte tablets in your water before a race
- Is pizza the night before a race a good idea?
- Protein sources for a vegetarian triathlete
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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 |
| 0:06.0 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson hello and our last special guest |
| 0:12.3 | Maybe who knows if a random podcast will pop up, but I think this is the last special guest from Kona that will have with us Mike |
| 0:18.8 | Stanic is that you guys say yeah, yeah, yeah perfect |
| 0:22.7 | Okay, awesome good to have you here. We're excited to have you you are a unique Kona qual qualifier |
| 0:28.7 | So we've been talking to like Kona qualifiers this whole week |
| 0:32.6 | You qualified I guess that before we get into why you're unique you should state where you qualified and what your splits were sure |
| 0:39.0 | So I have all this stuff memorized yeah, he's actually looking at phone. Yeah, so I |
| 0:45.0 | Qualified at Boulder this year in June it. Okay, my swim |
| 0:49.2 | Was 102 56 okay the bike |
| 0:53.3 | 448 10 and then the wrong was a 342 |
| 0:57.5 | Awesome, so and how old are you 31 so you're in the 30 31 30 to 35 or 30 34? Yeah, that's your age group |
| 1:05.4 | That's interesting every person here swim right around an hour that seems like |
| 1:10.4 | Like a very like if you can swim that you can qualify all the pros and the really the top age |
| 1:15.6 | Reapers can go 48 49 |
| 1:17.6 | Crazy I know crazy 10 minutes. Yeah, but you don't need it because it's an Ironman. Yeah, yeah exactly |
| 1:24.0 | How long have you been doing going about doing this Ironman thing? Yeah, so my first Ironman was in 2015 and |
| 1:30.4 | Detects us back then |
| 1:32.0 | That's really when the whole Ironman thing started the whole long course thing |
| 1:34.8 | I've been doing triathlons for about ten years now. Okay, I did my first one 2008 actually and I was just kind of for |
| 1:41.4 | To see if I can do it kind of thing as Chicago's my first one |
| 1:44.1 | So I was working at a bike shop at the time. I worked at a small family owned bike shop called cycles and sports |
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