Race Winning Plans, Recovery Weeks, Endurance vs. Race Bikes and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 366
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🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Hannah Otto joins us to cover all that she’s learned from her racing so far this season, as well as a discussion on how to maximize the effect of recovery weeks, whether endurance bikes are actually slower than race bikes, and much more.
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(0:33) What Hannah has learned from her Spring 2022 race season
(31:24) Amber and Hannah’s tips for racing to win
(39:47) Unbound Gravel
(52:30) How to get the most from recovery weeks
(01:02:13) Practical tips on adjusting your training when “life happens”
(01:16:30) Are endurance bikes slower than race bikes?
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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 trainer road |
| 0:05.5 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have just three of us right now |
| 0:09.1 | But a fourth will be joining us soon. We have canondale and trainer roads and repairs |
| 0:13.4 | Good morning everybody and back with us. It's exciting to have you we have pivot DT Swiss's Hannah auto. What's up Hannah? |
| 0:21.0 | Good to be here. Thanks. You have lived a lifetime since you've been on your last |
| 0:25.7 | We're just saying it's only been a month and a half but you have been racing all literally all over the world |
| 0:32.7 | Yeah, I've literally been around the world and back |
| 0:37.0 | So you did the Fayetteville Pro XCT whiskey off-road, which is a 50 mile |
| 0:42.4 | That's like an endurance mountain bike race or marathon mountain bike race that also has a fat tire crit which check out our YouTube channel |
| 0:48.6 | By the way if you're listening to this now and you can see a race analysis that we did with Keegan |
| 0:53.0 | Where we had it his cameras on during the fat tire crit and it's kind of wild to see the power that comes out of those tiny little |
| 1:02.0 | Lostridge legs of Keegan's |
| 1:03.6 | He's paying like 145 pounds in the number. He's numbers. He's doing our weirdly high |
| 1:09.2 | He's just really really strong and I say really high because he hasn't really been training hard short power efforts at all this year |
| 1:16.6 | Because he's been getting ready for |
| 1:18.8 | Unbound this weekend. Anyways, it's a cool race analysis check it out and we have more coming |
| 1:22.4 | So good or YouTube channel if you're joining us right now in the live stream give us a thumbs up that way other people can find it |
| 1:28.1 | You also then went from there across the pond and you did the Alps. World Cup in Germany |
| 1:33.6 | No, Vanessa World Cup and both of those had short track and XCO and then you also did Wisconsin Pro XCT |
| 1:40.7 | So you came back to the US and you did the short track and you did the XCO there |
| 1:45.8 | My goodness |
| 1:47.8 | I was a lot and then you have a note down here that you did a big training block four days after C-Auter |
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