RACE STRATEGY LESSONS FROM NATIONALS & TAHOE TRAIL 100 | Hannah Otto | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 541
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
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(00:00) Welcome!
(00:13) Hannah Otto's National Championship Win
(01:13) Race Course and Preparation
(03:03) Training and Hydration Strategy
(16:20) Race Day Execution and Challenges
(24:56) Jonathan's Tahoe Trail 100 Experience
(33:14) Power Management and Climbing Strategy
(34:57) Unexpected Victory and Reflections
(39:37) Passing Etiquette and Techniques
(50:32) Leadville Race Dynamics and Preparation
(58:23) Nutrition Strategy for Leadville
In this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast presented by TrainerRoad, Hannah Otto from Scott Bikes joins us following her victory at the Cross Country Marathon National Championships. The discussion explores her training approach, race-day strategy, and nutrition plan. Hannah shares insights on tackling the technical Roanoke course, managing focus, and responding to race-day challenges. Additionally, Coach Jonathan recaps his experience at the Tahoe Trail 100, where strategic pacing, nutrition, and a last-minute pass qualified him for the Leadville 100. The episode wraps up with a discussion on Leadville race preparation and the importance of having a solid nutrition and pacing strategy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast, presented by Trainor Road. Today we have Hannah Otto with us from Scott Bikes, competitive cyclists, pro-ozoomi, all the different brands that you ride for first endurance, I think, is that the nutrition company? Yeah. Good, good. I didn't want to say the wrong one. Hannah, you are a national champion. You just won cross-country marathon national championships in the elite category. Congratulations. |
| 0:21.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm super excited. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.4 | That was a big goal of mine going in this season. |
| 0:25.7 | And so it feels good to set a goal and follow all the way through to the execution. |
| 0:31.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.3 | Yeah, it feels super good, right? |
| 0:33.7 | Boxes are checked, especially for type A folks like us and i'm sure most people listen to this |
| 0:38.4 | i just want to take time for this podcast episode this is going to be really different if you're |
| 0:42.7 | watching this you're listening to it right now we're going to just dive into hannah's race go |
| 0:46.0 | over into the learnings that she has the things that she feels she did well um and then we're also |
| 0:51.1 | going to talk about my race over the past weekend that i just did, Tahoe Trail 100, a crazy, a crazy race with a bunch of crazy circumstances that somehow led to me qualifying for Leadville. I thought it was a really, really slim chance. And I think it was. And somehow it all worked out. So I'm going to Leadville. And we're going to talk through the race and see how all went. But Hannah, I want to dive into your race first. |
| 1:11.8 | National Championship. |
| 1:12.8 | It's pretty great. |
| 1:14.6 | Can we just go into like what the course was in terms of length and then any specifics |
| 1:19.8 | you did to prepare for it in terms of training? |
| 1:22.5 | Like, where are you targeting your training toward this and how'd that go? |
| 1:25.5 | Yeah, the course was 53 miles with 75,000 feet, |
| 1:31.0 | 7,500. Let me re-say that. The course was 53 miles with 7,500 feet of climbing. And it was almost all |
| 1:42.8 | single track, like maybe 80 to 90% single track. |
| 1:47.5 | And not technical in the regards of being anything scary, but very technical in regards to carrying speed, carrying momentum, lots of roots, lots of rocks, lots of corners, |
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