Music During Training, Eating in a Fast Race, Carb Loading and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 244
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
How music during training can improve performance, strategies to eat and drink during a fast MTB race, effective and efficient carb loading and more is all covered in Episode 244 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Nate's takeaways from his first races of the season
- How music during training can improve performance
- Are tubular wheels worth the hassle?
- Tips for the best TT setup for lighter riders
- Strategies to eat and drink during a fast MTB race
- How to not get dropped during the fast start of a MTB race
- Does non-alchoholic beer have benefits for endurance athletes?
- How to ensure that your carb loading is effective and efficient
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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 |
| 0:05.5 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and the gang is back together this week. It's been a while. It has been a while |
| 0:10.2 | Head coach Chad Zimmerman. Hi everybody. Good to have you Chad. He's high energy today |
| 0:15.5 | Got a bowl full of beer |
| 0:17.5 | That's true if you can join us on YouTube you could see that sort of thing |
| 0:19.8 | Yeah, good point good asterisk on the sort of and CEO Nate Pearson good to have you Nate good to have me too |
| 0:30.1 | So this is actually just before we go any further like I said you can join us on YouTube |
| 0:34.1 | We recommend doing that. It's usually every Thursday at AM Pacific |
| 0:36.9 | But we're gonna have an unorthodox schedule next week |
| 0:39.4 | Because Nate you and I won't be |
| 0:41.4 | Well, I should say we'll have a special podcast next week that we'll talk about here in a little bit on this episode |
| 0:47.0 | But we'll not be on live at Thursday at AM Pacific. It won't be a live episode |
| 0:51.3 | Instead it will be something that we post up there after after the fact, but it will be posted next week |
| 0:56.5 | So stay tuned for that and this is where we answer all the questions you submit at trainroad.com slash podcast |
| 1:01.7 | Thank you for doing that keep doing that. It's awesome |
| 1:04.3 | We get so many questions from all of you and we come through them and then address the questions or topics that we see represented or that represent a lot of the questions |
| 1:11.6 | Every week a quick update though on a few things for you |
| 1:14.5 | We haven't talked to you since dear first race of the season right on the podcast |
| 1:18.2 | So first race of the season. I wasn't that same race with you |
| 1:22.4 | How to go okay, so we're doing the analysis tomorrow. We've got videos |
| 1:26.2 | But it was Cal Aggie like one little chicane your videos are up there already for the cap three yep and cap three four yep, which did very well in |
| 1:35.6 | But Iman Lucas how you say is that yeah Iman Lucas. Yeah, so that's a whole huge wrench in it |
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