Race Analysis: Carson City Off-Road with Keegan Swenson – Ask a Cycling Coach 162
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Keegan Swenson is one of the fastest pro mountain bikers in the USA, and we took a deep dive into the Stans / Pivot Pro Team rider's hard-fought second place at the Epic Rides Carson City Off-Road.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Hardtail or full suspension: Which is best?
- How the pros carry spares and tools
- A tube carrying hack you need to know about
- Long sleeve jersey or arm warmers
- What the pros eat before a big race
- How pro riders plan their race nutrition
- On-the-bike nutrition hacks
- Why mountain bike races start hard
- Why the pros ride singletrack different than all of us
- How many times can the pros attack?
- Why a higher threshold is almost always a good solution
- When to know if you should lead or not on the trail
- Why technical trails might actually be an opportunity for rest
- Tips on how to follow a rider in singletrack
- When does drafting come into play in a mountain bike race?
- Why line choice may be the most important part of a sprint
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody. Welcome to a race analysis with a special guest today, |
| 0:04.6 | Keegan Swenson. How you doing, Keegan? |
| 0:06.7 | Good. How you guys doing? |
| 0:08.6 | Doing well. Doing well. |
| 0:10.2 | We're going to look at your Carson City offroad performance from today. |
| 0:13.0 | Or I should say from this past weekend. |
| 0:15.0 | I was there at the race, however, |
| 0:17.1 | I only wrote a portion of the course. |
| 0:18.9 | You guys racing on Sunday and you ended up actually taking |
| 0:22.7 | a second place into three up sprint with Ben Santag and Howard Grotz. |
| 0:26.5 | So kudos on that. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks. |
| 0:29.8 | Before we get into, so we're going to look at your power file and we're |
| 0:32.8 | going to use trainer roads performance analytics, obviously, to do that. |
| 0:35.8 | But before we do that, I want to talk about your, I guess, more equipment |
| 0:40.6 | strategy and how you fueled that day. |
| 0:42.7 | So first, I guess run me through which bike you ran, which tires you chose |
| 0:47.5 | and anything else that was unique about your bike for this race. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah. So I raised the pivot less 29, which is, and it's just a, |
| 0:57.6 | which is your basic hardtail. |
| 1:00.8 | And I used, I always used a dropper post on it. |
| 1:02.8 | So that wasn't special to this race. |
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