Lose Like a Winner, Transitions, Pacing & More with Sika Henry – Ask a Cycling Coach 283
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
How to stay motivated after a loss, a deep dive on triathlon transitions, pacing climbs and bike splits and much more in this special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast with Sika Henry!
Sika's Successful Athlete's Podcast Episode: https://youtu.be/P4RKM2v4NhU
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• How to not go out too early
• How to pace a long climb
• Pacing a half-IRONMAN bike split
• Swim drills and tips that make you faster
• How to deal with losing
• Process vs. Outcome goals
• How to stay motivated after a loss
• How to return from injury
• A deep dive on triathlon transitions
• How to get your wetsuit off
• How to organize your gear in transition
• Mounting and dismounting your bike
• How to avoid GI distress for endurance athletes
• Why you should train with race nutrition
• Pre-race habits
• How to stop getting so nervous before races
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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 and we have a very different episode here with you today |
| 0:08.8 | Because I just have one guest with me and it's Seika Henry. How you doing Seika? |
| 0:16.0 | It's gonna be great doing well. Thank you |
| 0:18.1 | So a quick introduction so then people can know who we're speaking with here |
| 0:22.7 | But Seika is a triathlete who is going for her pro card right now in our man triathlon super exciting stuff |
| 0:30.0 | And we just recorded a successful athletes podcast with you where we went through your story and it's super impressive |
| 0:35.1 | There's tons of great insight within there from man from going from running |
| 0:40.6 | Well actually from even further back going from collegiate track and field and high jump and then going over to running |
| 0:47.3 | Then going long with running and then going into triathlon and everything that you figured out throughout that process coming back from a horrific accident |
| 0:54.8 | Racing Ironman World champs on like two weeks notice, which is just crazy. So |
| 0:59.3 | Tons of great stuff in that podcast so everybody listen to this |
| 1:02.0 | I would very strongly recommend that you go over listen to that successful athletes podcast episode and we'll have it in the link below |
| 1:08.8 | Or link to that in the description below whether that's on YouTube or whatever podcast app you're using to listen to on this |
| 1:15.0 | So yeah, I'm excited Seika. It's gonna be good. I hope so that's fine |
| 1:18.8 | Yeah |
| 1:21.0 | So okay first things first let's just get straight into Julie's question |
| 1:24.6 | This is actually going to be a somewhat shorter episode this weekend also we excuse Amber |
| 1:28.8 | She was intending to be on the podcast but had a family issue that she had to deal with |
| 1:33.1 | So all the best for that with Amber and Nate still healing the noggin from the concussion. So hopefully he'll be back soon |
| 1:40.5 | Okay, Julie's question she says first off. I want to say how much I'm getting out of using your product and also from the podcast |
| 1:45.9 | I especially like the instructions given during the workout |
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