Mental Toughness, Crazy Sprints, Recovery Weeks & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 282
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
How to be a tough athlete, pro tips for the final kilometer of a race and why you lose most sprints, why you feel slower after a recovery week and much more with new guest host Ivy Audrain!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• New guest host Ivy Audrain!
• How to fix low back pain on the bike
• How to pick a training plan for the Specialty Phase
• How not to get boxed in during a sprint
• Pro tips for the final kilometer of a race
• Bunch sprint tactics
• How to improve technical skills without racing
• Why you feel slower after a recovery week
• How mindset affects training
• When to do a spindown calibration
• Is a certain pedal stance correct?
• Calories vs. carbs per hour
• Cyclists and running
• Jonathan’s Chilean walmart bike story
• How to be a tough athlete
• How to get better at longer intervals
• How to train junior athletes
• How to avoid choking
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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 the cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.7 | This is episode 282 |
| 0:08.0 | We're getting really close to 300 |
| 0:10.3 | Yeah exciting stuff some of those voices you heard right there. We have trainer road and cannon dales and repairs. Hi everybody |
| 0:16.6 | And trainer road and cliff bar racing is Pete Morris. How's it going, guys? |
| 0:21.1 | And we have a new guest with us this week trainer road employee |
| 0:25.2 | So and and and once pro cyclist as well. It's gonna be awesome |
| 0:29.2 | You get to meet more people behind the scenes here at trainer road ivy Audreine. How you do and ivy? Hey, I'm super good. Thanks Jonathan |
| 0:35.7 | Yeah, happy to have you so okay, let's intro you really quick to give some people some background |
| 0:40.8 | I mentioned that you are a pro cyclist. Can you kind of tell us your your experience with like racing like like what you've raised |
| 0:46.9 | Where you've raised that sort of stuff? Yeah, so I've been racing for I think this is my well |
| 0:53.1 | would have been my 12th season RIP |
| 0:58.3 | I started out racing road and race professionally for a few years and that and now I |
| 1:04.2 | devil and |
| 1:05.4 | XC and single speed cycle crosses my favorite discipline the race right now |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah |
| 1:13.2 | Awesome, so we're stoked to have you if anybody has ever been on like the forum or |
| 1:18.5 | A lot of the time on Instagram or on Twitter that sort of stuff ivy is our community manager. So |
| 1:23.8 | She's amazing at that and a lot of the time you'll you'll recognize her quick wit that she hasn't to respond to your stuff |
| 1:31.4 | so |
| 1:33.8 | Before we get into things this week |
| 1:35.4 | We have a ton of questions that we're gonna answer by the way |
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