Low Cadence, Choking, Equipment Choices and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 285
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Is low cadence more naturally efficient than high cadence, how to perform in high-pressure situations, the hosts’ favorite equipment choices and more in episode 285 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Is low cadence more efficient?
- How to avoid choking
- The hosts’ favorite tires
- Strength training during recovery weeks
• What bottle cages are best?
• How to pace a long time trial
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.5 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have with us the original crew here. We have canadale and trainer roads amber Pierce |
| 0:11.2 | Hey everybody. Oh |
| 0:12.9 | Amber, I think you're muted perhaps it's it's on your end or maybe my end |
| 0:16.3 | I just can't remember why can we live of course and then we also have our head coach Chad Zimmerman everyone |
| 0:22.8 | And we also have our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. So first off. We have two injuries going on right now |
| 0:28.6 | One is Mr. Chad Timberman Chad what's going on with this? |
| 0:34.9 | So last week or actually two weeks ago today |
| 0:38.4 | I was doing the typical morning run and I just rolled my ankle in a pot hole in the dark and I've had this injury a couple times before |
| 0:44.5 | But I underestimated the severity of this one and I jumped back into a bit of training way too soon and now it's becoming a parent that I probably further the damage |
| 0:54.3 | so |
| 0:55.6 | On the heels of that MED related to injury |
| 0:59.4 | Air on the conservative side I totally flew in the face of my own advice and now I'm scheduled for or I'm scheduling today my MRI |
| 1:06.1 | Because I may actually require surgery |
| 1:08.8 | Can you throw the picture? |
| 1:10.8 | Give it to Maxine. We'll throw it up on YouTube after the fact or I don't know if we can actually no |
| 1:15.4 | We can't but maybe yeah, we should have gotten that to Aaron earlier than that would have taken care of everything for most |
| 1:21.2 | It'll be in the form. Yes, but Chad your ankle does not look |
| 1:24.4 | Boy no, not all and so it's mighty bad |
| 1:27.8 | And I've still got blood pooling in the foot and all that my biggest question is why the heck were you running? |
| 1:33.1 | Yeah, good question. We just have a weekly touch on just just something to remind our joints what it feels like to feel impact |
| 1:39.2 | Sort of thing and it's just a little 5K run. We do we have two different loops and just the standard thing |
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