Mentality Tips from Pros, Sprints vs. Endurance, Training Metrics and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 342
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Mentality is often what separates winners from the rest in pro fields, and while amateurs may not be able to train like pros, they can think like one. Join pro riders Hannah Finchamp and Alex Wild as we discuss strategies of how to get into the mindset of a winner, how to do sprint training amidst endurance training, their favorite training metrics and more.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- TrainerRoad athletes winning National and World Championships
- Hannah’s cyclocross tips
- Mentality tips from the pros
- How to mix sprint training with endurance training
- Rapid Fire Questions
- How to pace long events with lots of short climbs
- The hosts’ favorite training and racing metrics
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.8 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have with us ornceloff roads Alex or actually Alex you have a new team name and I just completely messed it up didn't I |
| 0:15.2 | Not yet 15 days. Okay sounds good ornceloff |
| 0:17.7 | Ornceloff Specialized for now is great. Yeah |
| 0:20.4 | Orncel Specialized and Hannah how about you? I don't know if any any changes have happened there either |
| 0:25.2 | Uh, same as Alex still orncel off road team for now. Awesome. Good to hear. Well, it's good to have Hannah Finchamp and Alex Wild with us pro mountain bikers |
| 0:35.7 | Hannah you have as we learned a couple episodes ago experience on the triathlon side even you cover all this stuff |
| 0:41.9 | We're gonna talk about cyclocross. We're gonna talk about lots of different things today |
| 0:46.4 | Specifically, we're also gonna get into the mentality and have just a broad raging open discussion on how to get into a winning mindset |
| 0:53.6 | And kind of like unlock the the mindset that allows you to express all of the fitness that you have |
| 0:58.4 | It's gonna be an interesting discussion. We'll talk about sprint versus endurance |
| 1:02.3 | Training metrics lots of stuff, but before we do that |
| 1:05.2 | I want to mention something really quick. We have a |
| 1:08.4 | Awesome team here at trainer road that never gets to meet all of you through the podcast |
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| 1:30.2 | So dribble is like a designer's |
| 1:32.5 | You can kind of consider it like a designer's social network |
| 1:35.0 | But it's where they share the different things that they're working on and if you're interested in that |
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