Pro Interviews: Preparing for USAC Mountain Bike Nationals – Ask a Cycling Coach 315
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, we have a very special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! We caught up with 10 professional mountain bikers to learn how they prepared for the MTB National Championships in Winter Park, CO. Learn how these athletes prepared for high elevation, what nutrition plan they’re following for the race, much more all covered in this week’s Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Welcome to a very special episode!
- Athlete Introductions
- How did you prepare for altitude?
- Did you do anything special to prepare for this course?
- Did you taper for this race? Was it different than you would taper for a typical race?
- What’s your nutrition plan for race day?
- What unique equipment choices did you make or are planning on making for this race?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Coach Jonathan here and welcome to a very special episode of the Asuka |
| 0:03.3 | Cycling Coach Podcast presented by Trainor Road. This week you'll hear the audio quality |
| 0:08.0 | sounds very different and that's because this is a very special episode where we interviewed |
| 0:12.5 | 11 professional mountain bikers and we caught them on trains, planes and automobiles so |
| 0:17.7 | forgive the subpar audio quality that we have even for myself here as I'm on site at National |
| 0:22.1 | Championships but we interviewed them as they were going to Winter Park Colorado for mountain |
| 0:27.1 | bike national championships. It's the course starts at 9,000 feet every lap and just goes up from |
| 0:31.9 | there so that's around 3000 meters and it's a tall order for a lot of athletes to get prepared |
| 0:38.2 | for that sort of elevation but what we did is we asked these athletes the same five questions |
| 0:43.4 | every one of them. So what you'll hear is each athlete answering question one then each athlete |
| 0:48.4 | answering question two and so on. And question one is how did you prepare for the high elevation |
| 0:53.4 | at Winter Park. Question two is did you do anything special to prepare for the course. |
| 0:58.1 | Question three how did you taper for this race and was it different than a typical taper for you? |
| 1:03.6 | Question four what is your nutrition plan for race day and finally question five did you make |
| 1:08.7 | any equipment choices or unique equipment choices for this race. So enjoy this episode where we get |
| 1:14.2 | to hear from these professional athletes all kind of doing some people similar some people very |
| 1:18.6 | different approaches to how they prepared for this race. It is a big one and it's one that we can |
| 1:23.8 | all join in and watch live on USC Cycling's website this weekend and share these athletes on. |
| 1:29.3 | So enjoy this episode and without further ado let's start off with these athletes introducing |
| 1:33.5 | themselves. Hey guys Russell Fence Rwold here I race for the Cliff Pro team just getting ready to |
| 1:39.2 | head up to Winter Park for this year's US national mountain bike championships. Hi I'm Alexis Skarda |
| 1:44.8 | and I ride for Santa Cruz. My name is Alex Wilde I'm a professional mountain bike racer for orange |
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