Pro Pacing, Sleep Drugs, Trivia, and More - Ask a Cycling Coach 387
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Join Rocket Sloth Co’s Ryan Standish and Squid Bikes Ivy Audrain as we cover how these pros pace different types of races, whether they avoid melatonin and other over the counter medications to enhance sleep, how to manage nutrition without tracking macros and calories, and for our first ever AACC Cycling Trivia!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(0:52) How to manage nutrition without food tracking
(19:10) Ry Guy Rapid Fire!
(27:24) What is the best cross-training sport for cyclists?
(32:42) What cycling discipline requires the least amount of training time to be competitive?
(40:12) How to optimize your sleep without drugs
(50:08) Cycling Trivia!!!
(01:09:31) Can muscular people still be good cyclists?
(01:22:42) Are you pacing your efforts wrong?
(01:31:54) Training for a 10hr race on limited time
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, |
| 0:02.6 | Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road today. |
| 0:05.4 | We're going to talk about how pros pace because I have two pros with me. |
| 0:09.4 | Ivy from Squid Bikes, I've got Drain and we also have with us rocket |
| 0:13.0 | sloth co's Ryan standish. |
| 0:15.0 | We're also going to talk about when you take drugs to sleep, legal drugs, |
| 0:18.8 | y'all or I guess illegal drugs to you. |
| 0:21.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:22.5 | When you take drugs to sleep, what state would stay are you in? |
| 0:25.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.4 | When you take drugs to sleep, if that ends up messing things up for you and we're |
| 0:30.6 | just going to talk about anecdote here and, you know, reference loosely some |
| 0:35.1 | scientific research here, but really just talk about anecdote and what these |
| 0:38.2 | pro athletes have experienced and what they do since they race so much more than |
| 0:41.3 | most of us. |
| 0:42.6 | And then we're also going to do a section of cycling trivia, the first one ever |
| 0:46.4 | on the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast and you can play along at home. |
| 0:48.7 | So it's going to be a lot of fun, but we have a lot of other questions to answer. |
| 0:51.2 | Let's just get straight into Danielle's. |
| 0:52.9 | Danielle says, I really appreciate the conversation last week about disorder |
| 0:56.7 | to eating. |
| 0:57.2 | It really struck a chord with me. |
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