Pro Racing, Counterattacks, Weight and TTs, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 371
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🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
What would you change about pro cycling, when are counterattacks bad form, how to prepare for counterattacks and respond to them, and when does weight stop mattering for time trialists. We’ll cover all of this and more in Episode 371 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(7:24) What would you change about pro racing?
(35:04) What does your power meter calibration number mean?
(43:03) How to prepare for and respond to counterattacks
(58:08) Which training metrics are non-zero averages?
(1:11:34) When weight does and does not matter in cycling
(1:20:56) Managing a post-race disappointment
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.3 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have with us squid bikes IV udrain |
| 0:09.7 | Hi John I'm the going to go on great IV and Nate RC you and eight Pearson. It's just the three amigos today |
| 0:15.4 | Hi and |
| 0:17.0 | So everyone should know that when these when we're late. It's like almost always me |
| 0:22.8 | It's the panic |
| 0:24.4 | my kids are here this morning |
| 0:25.7 | dropping off at a summer camp and I my alarm like you know you set the alarm and you check it and then it doesn't go off |
| 0:31.8 | Yes, or you did it wrong. Yes, I did that and then my daughter also forgot to set her alarm |
| 0:37.1 | So she wakes me up. We were on it's usually the worst because when as a parent if you get more just as a boss to |
| 0:43.0 | Then you get super anxious everyone else is like, oh, I'm so bad. Yeah, we were calm and smooth |
| 0:48.1 | Then we come back. I'm here four minutes early and then my microphone what you guys said it sounded like a robot |
| 0:53.7 | No, like a teletubby |
| 0:55.9 | Teletubby amazing, and you know my mistake was last night. I was like oh, there's a new version of a mac OS |
| 1:02.5 | I should just update that that's been a while |
| 1:05.7 | right and so I had to switch mics and this is my travel mic |
| 1:08.8 | So if I sound a little bit different I'm sorry, but it's probably it'll be a good one still right because I have all this adrenaline inside of me |
| 1:15.3 | And I'm sorry for the interruptions. Oh, that's great |
| 1:18.0 | We already our first question is gonna be fantastic |
| 1:20.1 | Then they keep the adrenaline we're gonna talk about what you change about pro cycling or racing in general |
| 1:24.3 | So that that'll be a good one. I bet you'll have lots of ideas before we do |
| 1:29.6 | Before you do that though, I want to mention the fact that within the next |
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