Pacelines, Normalized Power, Allergies and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 199
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Pacelines, normalized vs. average power, balancing cravings with race weight, allergies and more.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• Flying vs. driving to races
• How your warmup affects your race
• How to manage expectations as a Type A bike racer
• Why big racers can be good in hilly races
• Mental illness and endurance athletics
• How long should you pull in a paceline?
• Effective ways to organize a paceline
• How you should change your nutrition for different race durations
• Why average power is used for PRs instead of Normalized Power
• How Normalized Power works
• How to time shifts perfectly when sprinting or out of the saddle
• How allergies affect performance
• Do antihistamines make you slower?
• How to train for TTs if you are a triathlete
• How to overcome cravings
• How to find your ideal weight
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist |
| 0:03.6 | to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman. |
| 0:08.8 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:09.3 | Our CEO Nate Pearson. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:10.9 | And we are here to answer more of your cycling and triathlon related questions and apparently |
| 0:15.7 | Nate's mimicking Chad very, very flattering. |
| 0:18.6 | We you can submit those questions at trainer road.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:21.6 | You can jump into the form. |
| 0:23.4 | You can go to forum.trainer road.com. |
| 0:25.4 | And we will have a post specifically on this episode where you can come in |
| 0:29.9 | and ask questions about anything that we talked about. |
| 0:32.2 | Our film producer Brennan today will even be he's manning the ropes here, |
| 0:37.4 | but he might even be throwing in some links if he has the time while we're talking here. |
| 0:42.0 | But that's a good spot to be able to find out more about what we're mentioning on this episode. |
| 0:45.6 | And you can also join the conversation tons of folks over there on the forum. |
| 0:48.8 | It's a it's a very active forum. |
| 0:50.7 | A tons of good information there. |
| 0:52.1 | So I even saw a thread the other day about somebody asking about the time that you should wait |
| 0:57.2 | after getting a tattoo to ride a bike. |
| 0:59.0 | I mean, they cover everything. |
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