Racer Interview – Justin Thomas – Ask a Cycling Coach 182
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
Justin Thomas is a Masters XC National Champion who shifted focus to a Cyclocross National Championship in 2017. Tune in and bring your questions as we dig into what it took to be nationally competitive in CX, how it differed from MTB, and how he balanced training, career and family responsibilities.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Friend of the Podcast Payson McElveen wins Singlespeed World Championships!
- Follow up on Kona interviewee performances
- Takeaways from training block in Kona
- New Calendar updates!
- Justin Thomas interview
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LINKS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
- FLO Cycling - Tire Pressure: http://flocycling.blogspot.com/2014/09/flo-cycling-tire-pressure.html
- Garmin Radar: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/518151
- Throwback Thursday: Justin Thomas’ Unique Road to Masters Nationals in His Reno Hometown: https://www.cxmagazine.com/justin-thomas-2018-reno-masters-cyclocross-nationals-sabbatical
- Cannondale SuperX: https://www.cannondale.com/en/USA/Bike/ProductDetail?Id=5e5935ab-cc1d-429b-8d31-5bea42b468dd&parentid=undefined
- Zipp 303 Tubulars: https://www.zipp.com/wheels/303-firecrest---tubular-disc-brake/#
- Stages Power Meter: https://store.stagescycling.com/stages-power-meters
- Justin’s CX Warmup workout: https://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/workouts/184631-pahrah
- Feedback Sports Omnium Over Drive Portable Trainer: https://www.feedbacksports.com/shop/omnium-portable-trainer/
- Skratch Labs Fruit Drops: https://www.skratchlabs.com/products/sport-energy-chews
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by |
| 0:04.4 | trainer road. This is the one that's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist and this is where |
| 0:09.0 | you can join us live on YouTube or on Facebook. We usually do it every Thursday morning at AM, |
| 0:14.1 | but this is a little different as you can tell. It's quite different because I'm not sitting in |
| 0:17.7 | my normal spot. There is one more joining us today. We have a special guest with us. I'm going to |
| 0:23.5 | do a quick intro on you so then people don't just think they're hearing a random voice. |
| 0:26.9 | Justin Thomas, you're an athlete that's covered a whole lot of disciplines within cycling, |
| 0:34.1 | I guess, in Traphlon and mountain biking and cyclocross. It's just what we're going to talk about |
| 0:38.4 | today because cross season's here. We're excited to have you on. We did a video, we released a video |
| 0:45.6 | recently all about your quest for a national championship last year. It is pretty great stuff, |
| 0:51.9 | way to go. Thanks. It's fun to be here. It's fun to revisit some of that, which seems like a |
| 0:58.8 | distant memory now, but I'm excited. No doubt. I'm going to have you come in closer to the |
| 1:03.6 | microphones so then we can get some really good high quality audio, Nate signaling right there. |
| 1:09.0 | The distance one should maintain. We're going to go into your story and a bunch of stuff and |
| 1:15.1 | kind of dig into the cross because we really haven't dug that deep into cross yet and a lot of |
| 1:18.4 | people have been asking for it. We'll get into that and specifically what you've done throughout |
| 1:23.2 | your training. First things first, a few items to take care of. First of all, grass to friend of |
| 1:28.1 | the podcast, Paisen McElvin. He won single speed world champs and he did it in a Trek skiing |
| 1:34.4 | speed suit from the 90s. Pretty impressive. But yeah, so good job to Paisen, a way to go for that one. |
| 1:43.7 | We have a whole lot of things to cover from Kona really quick, whether it's from the athletes |
| 1:47.8 | to be interviewed or our personal takeaways from putting together kind of like a mini training |
| 1:51.5 | block for all of us. And Nate's very excited. Should we go into the athletes or individual takeaways |
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