Pro Stage Race Tips, Altitude and Caloric Burn, Understanding TSS & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 203
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
On the next episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast, we'll discuss stage race pro tips that Jonathan collected at a UCI stage race, how altitude affects caloric burn, a deep dive to help you understand TSS, and much more!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• Stage Race tips from the pros
• How to stay focused during a race
• Things to know about racing multiple times per day
• Is Ribose a good recovery supplement?
• How do nitrates and nitrites affect performance?
• Are sprints at the end of a workout a bad idea?
• How cold weather, swimming, and sodium levels affect hydration
• Why does TSS drop in the Specialty Phase?
• Why chronic training load is not a good indicator of performance
• Understanding calories burned and metabolic efficiency
• Does altitude affect caloric burn?
• How to race against an unknown field
• How to race solo amongst teams
• What to expect when racing at a lower elevation
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist that ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.8 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman. Hi everybody our CEO Nate Pearson. Chad's doing Cape Epic |
| 0:16.0 | Well, I have to commit you on recording because you said you're gonna do it |
| 0:21.0 | 2021 Chad and Pete Morris |
| 0:24.0 | Okay, I'm going to be and you and Sophia Gomez Villafanier are going to be doing it as well |
| 0:29.5 | Pretty exciting news. That's pretty exciting. Yep. I'm exciting. I denied this wholeheartedly. I have zero interest in doing that bike race |
| 0:37.2 | John's not involved but no they just got me the wrong wrong minute right minute |
| 0:42.4 | It was a minute |
| 0:45.4 | Sorry, yeah, hi |
| 0:47.5 | Good to see you Nick. So this is the podcast where we answer the questions that you've submitted at trainroad.com slash podcast |
| 0:53.7 | And we also answer the questions you submit live when you join us every week on Thursday |
| 0:57.8 | Usually Thursday's at 8 a.m. Pacific |
| 1:00.0 | We'll otherwise inform you on our forum, which is forum. trainer road.com if that time changes |
| 1:05.0 | But right now we are Thursday at 8 a.m. Pacific |
| 1:07.4 | You can join us on Facebook and YouTube and you can head over to forum. trainer road.com and you can search for episode 203 |
| 1:13.4 | Which is this episode to find any notes or links or anything else that we mentioned during this podcast that you might be interested in or |
| 1:19.2 | Join in in a conversation with other podcast listeners there |
| 1:22.1 | Which is another cool thing you can do before we get any further |
| 1:25.0 | We should wish some good luck to everybody that's doing cross country marathon national championships here in the US is coming weekend |
| 1:31.4 | I know that we have rose grant stands pivot team writer and trainer road user. She's |
| 1:36.8 | Prepping for it. She's hopefully gets a really good result. She was just on the podcast. Yeah, she just was a great episode with her |
| 1:42.2 | Sonya looney is also going there to race and she's she's feeling ready to go also on the podcast and also trainer road user |
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