Pro Tips, Fatigue Management, Sweat Loss, and More with Alex Wild – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 461
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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// TOPICS COVERED
(0:00) Welcome!
(7:57) How to deal with bad start positions
(13:48) Balancing a career with pro racing
(19:33) What causes “bad days” on the bike?
(22:33) Do pros take time-off mid-season?
(29:27) How to decide when to pace yourself or not
(34:05) Managing a disappointing race result
(39:13) Late-season fatigue management
(40:50) How to figure out how much sweat you lose
(46:15) Why weighing yourself after training isn’t a good sweat test
(47:11) Alex’s nutrition strategy
(49:14) Bike setup tips for the Epic World Cup
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, the Ask A Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road. |
| 0:05.6 | Today we have cycle sports, that's new by the way, Alex wild. |
| 0:09.2 | Alex, it's been a long time since we've had you on the podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | Yeah, good to be back. Yeah, man. It's been a long time since we've had you on the podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | Yeah, good to be back. |
| 0:14.2 | Yeah, man. |
| 0:14.9 | Great to have you. |
| 0:15.8 | Also, last week, we were supposed to record this podcast |
| 0:18.2 | due to a string of terrible illnesses |
| 0:21.0 | and everything else to the family. |
| 0:22.0 | We weren't able to do it. |
| 0:23.4 | That was the first podcast, I think we missed, |
| 0:25.0 | and of, geez, like two and a half years |
| 0:26.4 | or something in terms of a week, |
| 0:27.5 | so we're doing some makeup work here. |
| 0:30.6 | Alex, I want to spend time today talking to you about the past year. |
| 0:35.0 | Next year is exciting because you're back into the Lifetime Grand Prix. |
| 0:39.0 | You aren't saying this, this is me, I want to make this clear clear but they got the sense back into their head and you bet you're into the lifetime grand free so Alex didn't say that that was me |
| 0:48.0 | I'm excited that you're back in that series because and I don't know if you're planning to |
| 0:53.7 | contest the whole series or anything else it really lends toward what I think like |
| 0:56.7 | your physiology and what really makes you unique as an athlete so it would be |
| 0:59.7 | really cool you're still on specialized bikes and everything else which is great. You still are obviously a specialized employee. |
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