Q&A with 3x Olympian Geoff Kabush – Ask a Cycling Coach 171
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
3x Olympian, 15x National Champion, Multi-time BCBR Champion and all around MTB legend Geoff Kabush (Yeti Cycles, Maxxis, Shimano) joined us to answer your questions on maintaining race fitness and motivation, equipment choices and technique, and a funny story that involves Chinese olympic basketball player Yao Ming. Tune in and enjoy!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Are aero bars beneficial in gravel racing?
- Is gravel racing just a marketing scheme?
- How Geoff maintains fitness throughout the year
- Keeping motivation throughout each year of racing
- Racing and training as an aging athlete
- Why Geoff has become such a great technical rider
- Pre-riding the Continental EWS Northstar course
- How do you assess an upcoming technical section of trail?
- What would Geoff change for Dirty Kanza next year?
- Advice on riding muddy conditions
- Cadence comparison on mountain vs. road
- Having confidence and controlling traction with your front tire
- Tire discussion with Geoff
- Geoff's opinion on the new Fox StepCast 34 mountain bike fork
- Why is Di2 so beneficial for mountain bike racing?
- Geoff's tips and tricks for racing the BC Bike Race
More training questions answered here: bit.ly/Training-Questions-Help-Center
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LINKS TO MENTIONED PRODUCTS:
- Race Analysis: Dirty Kanza 2018 with Geoff Kabush: https://blog.trainerroad.com/race-analysis-dirty-kanza-2018-with-geoff-kabush/
- How To Become A Faster Mountain Biker: https://blog.trainerroad.com/how-to-be-a-faster-mountain-biker/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by train and road |
| 0:05.7 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and I don't have our head coach Chad Timmerman or our CEO Nate Pearson instead |
| 0:11.8 | I have just one special guest with us here in studio and that's three-time Olympian 15-time Canadian national champion |
| 0:19.7 | multi-time BC bike race champion and plenty of the race winners Jeff kaboosh how you doing man great good good to hear |
| 0:26.9 | Thanks man. Thanks for coming to so you actually spend a good amount of time close to us here in trainer road HQ |
| 0:32.7 | Living up in trucky right every year. Yeah spend a |
| 0:36.9 | large portion of the summers hanging out in the trucky Tahoe area a little bit a little bit in the winter when there's actually snow here |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah kind of bounced around between Canada and California depending on the season and the race and going that's going on |
| 0:51.4 | But yeah, it's a great kind of summer base. We have a lot of races adulthood in the US. So it's a nice place to hang out all room |
| 0:58.7 | Yeah, it's like that perfect elevation where it's not too high but not too low |
| 1:02.6 | You're kind of like right and it's sweet spot around six to seven thousand feet, right? Yeah, still getting some good training and |
| 1:09.3 | Not not feel too bad. Yeah, not too pathetic like up a 10,000. Well, I appreciate you joining us |
| 1:14.9 | We had our our CEO he just had some sinus surgery our head coaches sick |
| 1:19.8 | We had plenty of things both through but you and I were actually yesterday. We are pre riding the California Enduro series race |
| 1:26.3 | It's up in North Star at the resorts up there, which is also a need of us continental race |
| 1:32.2 | So we are we are being XC dudes, but pretending to be in Duro bros yesterday |
| 1:37.6 | And thank you for for taking the time to come in and do this. I appreciate it |
| 1:42.3 | We've asked a bunch of questions and are ask a cycling coach podcast Facebook group and you can join that just check it out on Facebook |
| 1:48.7 | It's where a ton of other podcast listeners just like you are at and they're asking questions and and sharing what's working for them |
| 1:55.8 | If you have other questions, you'll be surprised to see how many people probably have a similar situation can help you out in there |
| 2:01.6 | or if you just want to get more participatory with the podcast you can join us there and |
| 2:06.3 | We're also streaming live right now on Facebook and YouTube so you can join us that way one quick announcement before we get into the questions that you've already sent in to us for Jeff |
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