Racing at High Elevation, Learning to Suffer, Recovery and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 274
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
How to improve your racing at elevation while living at low altitude, how to increase your ability to suffer, how to recover from a big training week and more in Episode 274 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- How to create your own goals in a year of no racing
- Simple ways to add more volume to your training
- How to best recover from a high volume training week or training block
- Why using a TENS unit may aid recovery
- Amber’s biggest concerns going into The Cape Epic
- Tips to ride faster on a single-speed mountain bike
- How to race at elevation while living at low altitude
- How to improve your ability to ride in sweet spot
- The Coaches Tour de France jersey picks
- How to improve your ability to suffer
- How to switch to training in the early mornings
- Pro tips for openers the day before your MTB race
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast that's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast |
| 0:04.5 | presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have with us trainer road and canondales |
| 0:08.9 | Amber Pierce. Good morning, everyone. The canondales and that means you're going to be on that |
| 0:13.1 | fancy new scalpel, which is pretty exciting for K-Pepic. We have our head coach Chad Timmerman. |
| 0:19.7 | Everybody. And we have, well actually it's a special guest, but we also get to pair this with |
| 0:24.5 | an announcement here. We have orange seal and specialized trainer. Forgive me, orange seal and |
| 0:30.1 | specialized Alex wild. What's up Alex? Morning guys. So you are going to be joining us. I'd say |
| 0:37.2 | regularly, not meaning every week, but you're going to be joining us on about a once a month basis |
| 0:43.2 | for the rest of the podcast because you just fit in so darn well. We're like he's such a nerd like |
| 0:47.2 | us. It's perfect, but he's really fast. So so we'll keep we'll have him on and so thanks for joining |
| 0:52.4 | us man. It's going to be fun to have you on more regularly. Thanks for having me. We're going to talk |
| 0:58.4 | about racing at high elevation, learning to stuff or plenty of other stuff today. It's going to be |
| 1:02.5 | a good podcast. A couple of things to take care of beforehand. Head over to trainer road.com. |
| 1:06.8 | One of the things that's on there that we don't talk about a whole lot, even if you are a subscriber |
| 1:10.5 | to trainer road, you should definitely send your friends to this too, but we have a strength training |
| 1:14.2 | calculator on there. It was actually like a side project. Amber can speak to this hench head, but |
| 1:20.5 | we have things called creative days here at trainer road, where we actually it's it's only one day |
| 1:24.6 | a month, but that one day a month, we're encouraged to spend our time working on something that's |
| 1:28.4 | that's a bit off the beaten path of what we usually work on. And this was one so shout out to Dom, |
| 1:34.0 | one of our awesome designers, I believe, and I'm sure there are others involved in this. So please |
| 1:38.0 | forgive me, trainer road employees that I'm leaving out on this, but this is one of their side |
| 1:41.9 | projects that they built up and there is actually a strength training calculator on there so that you |
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