Legs vs. Cardio, Warming Up, Speed Wobbles and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 215
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
Join us live for Episode 215 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! We'll be discussing the common saying of legs or lungs failing first and the science behind that, what happens in your body during a warmup, what speed wobbles actually are and how to avoid them, and much more!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- TrainerRoad athletes going to World Championships!
- Legs vs. cardio: what is your limiter?
- How you use anaerobic work capacity
- Why attacking around the outside is a good idea
- Paceline tactics
- How fatigue accumulates over the course of a ride
- The science of warmups
- How to make sure you don't blow up during the swim
- How to properly pace a triathlon
- Ultra-endurance racing and discomfort
- Why do you get speed wobbles?
- How to train for the Iceman Cometh Challenge MTB Race
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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 |
| 0:05.6 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timberman Harbourman our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:09.4 | Hello, this is where we answer the cycling and triathlon related questions that you've submitted at trainer road calm slash podcast |
| 0:15.0 | Keep doing it. We love that. That's awesome |
| 0:16.6 | It gives us a ton of questions that we can go through every week and put together a list that we're gonna cover a couple orders of |
| 0:22.8 | Congratulations very quickly before we get into some questions |
| 0:26.0 | First of all congrats to the stands pivot team because all four members of them. We are a team sponsor by the way |
| 0:31.9 | All four members of them are going to world champs for cross country racing. That's crazy. It's pretty amazing, right? |
| 0:37.6 | So Rose Grant Chloe Woodruff and Keegan Swenson for America |
| 0:40.6 | Sophia Gomez-Vitiafania for Argentina |
| 0:43.6 | Pretty amazing also congrats to podcast listener Alex Wilde |
| 0:47.8 | He races well, he actually works for specialized the full time |
| 0:50.7 | I believe they he I don't know if he's in supply chain or something like that |
| 0:53.8 | But he works for specialized full time. It also races pro he got third at national champs pro national champs |
| 0:59.0 | It's crazy. Just really impressive and he also got selected for the world champs team |
| 1:03.5 | Which is really cool like I mean you don't hear of many people carrying a job and doing that |
| 1:09.1 | Extremely impressive and also Alex has come like a long way in a short period of time |
| 1:13.3 | So shout out Alex way to go good job exciting stuff |
| 1:17.2 | Good luck to a lot of them and oh |
| 1:19.6 | For example Alex and Keegan are racing Breck Epic and tons of other people the peatals |
| 1:24.9 | They're from powder Creek lodge friends of the podcast as well |
| 1:27.4 | So good luck at Breck Epic if you're doing that and it ledville |
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