Performance Process: Everyone fails at 40 minutes
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Welcome to a taste of the first episode of Performance Process, a podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist.
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This first episode focuses on optimizing for the hour record with guest Jonny Wale, delving into the processes behind the ten successful hour record attempts he's been involved with. That includes both Dan Bigham's former record and Filippo Ganna's current record. It's a fascinating chat and we hope you enjoy it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the performance process. I'm Kayle Fritz. I'm Rana-Wecklin. And today we're |
| 0:19.3 | digging into the processes behind breaking records, specifically our records. |
| 0:26.1 | We're talking with somebody who has been involved in breaking, |
| 0:29.2 | what did we decide Ronan, 9 and a half, 10 and a half, something like that. Ronin 9. 9. 10. |
| 0:33.0 | Something like that. |
| 0:35.0 | Fascinating. |
| 0:37.0 | Fascinating individual. |
| 0:38.0 | Who are we chatting with Ronin? |
| 0:39.0 | We're talking with Johnny Whale, who I think will have come to most people's attention as part of the Hoob Wattbike team that sort of, well I think it's fair to say they transformed the team pursuit discipline and the track a few years back. |
| 0:55.0 | Johnny has since gone on to, well he's won British National Track Championships. |
| 1:01.0 | He represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games despite his Wales name and he is now a coach and performance consultant and well as I suppose notably for this conversation he is Dan Biggums coach he is also if you look |
| 1:17.2 | back at the photos of for the began as our record he is usually the one that g has got an arm around post breaking the hour record and he is well |
| 1:27.2 | he's been pretty much central to both of those are records I think also Joss Loudens |
| 1:32.0 | our record and at least seven or eight others including |
| 1:36.2 | breaking five masters and national hour records in one day just a couple weeks ago as part of the well watch up did a week of |
| 1:44.7 | record thing that we're sort of taking a little bit of claim for our |
| 1:49.5 | guest today Johnny was yeah it was sort of central and the key to all of those successful attempts. |
| 1:57.0 | Yes, we're going to get into his sort of his coaching philosophy, his processes behind breaking all these records sort of from start to finish, |
| 2:08.0 | the way that he thinks about these records and the way that you have to sort of unearth all these little tiny things to break these particular records. |
| 2:17.4 | I think there's quite a lot that we can take out of this conversation for anybody at home. |
| 2:21.3 | I certainly took a heck of a lot out of it and even though I will literally I will never do an hour record. I will never attempt it. I have no intention of ever doing so. |
| 2:30.0 | Oh, yes. |
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