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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Racing in Heavy Crosswinds, Adaptive Muscle Shortening, Commuting and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 243

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Pro tips for racing in heavy crosswinds, how cyclists should deal with "adaptive muscle shortening," using your commute to get faster and more is all covered in Episode 243 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Takeaways from the first race of the season
  • Using Plan Builder to train for a race with little time
  • Should cyclists be worried about "adaptive muscle shortening?"
  • The biomechanics of pedaling
  • Tips to improve your pedaling efficiency
  • Can longer races build fitness for short races?
  • How to use your commute to get faster
  • What is the purpose of TrainerRoad Workouts with fluctuating sustained power?
  • Pro tips to race in heavy crosswinds
  • Does skipping rest intervals increase the workout's effectiveness?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated in making you a faster cyclist asked a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:05.2

I'll coach Jonathan Lee and back with us again. We have our head coach Chad's improvement. Hi everybody good to have you Chad

0:10.6

Thanks. Nate Pearson does not with us today

0:14.7

Instead we have clip our racing and trainer roads people risk how's it going guys?

0:18.7

We're happy to have you on two feet. I'm glad to have Chad back to you. It's great

0:22.1

Yeah, we're all happy to have him back speaking of that Chad weak but lopsided

0:25.7

Yeah, for sure. We haven't had the the gang so to speak back together in quite a while

0:31.4

Yeah, but next week that'll happen at least that's the plan. So yeah, uh, Chad where were you?

0:37.8

We should talk about it to British Columbia to do some backcountry touring to powder Creek lodge

0:42.8

I just a little outside of Caslow if you're familiar with the area or a Caslow yep. Yeah

0:47.5

Yeah, yeah, that's where we went last year. Yeah, it is another week with the Peacles

0:53.8

It was as memorable as last year. So sweet incredible on so many levels

0:58.0

So let's touch on this I guess kind of kind of quickly some some things that I guess you can kind of glean because first of all

1:04.2

That's a week off of training

1:06.6

And one like structure training on the bike. Yeah, but it's certainly it's no vacation

1:10.9

No, it was a planned a planned cross-training base block. I mean it lived up to every aspect and then some

1:18.2

Yeah, so let's cover those kind of principles

1:20.0

Then we can draw some context for people that may be doing something this cross-training escort

1:24.6

Even if it's just like a a week off that's that's physical in one regard or another. Yeah, so this wasn't uh

1:31.1

I knew it was coming from quite a ways out

1:33.4

So I did kind of structure training around it leading up to it

1:36.6

So they didn't carry a bunch of fatigue into it

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