Racing Smart & Overcoming Mental Blocks | Pro Tips with Hannah Otto | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 513
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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// TOPICS COVERED
(00:00:00) Introduction and Guest Introduction
(00:01:11) Mediterranean Epic Overview
(00:03:27) Race Strategy and Goals
(00:09:27) Warmup Techniques and Insights
(00:21:12) Nutrition Strategies
(00:25:14) Mental and Physical Recovery
(00:29:36) Dealing with Flats and Mechanical Issues
(00:40:16) Should Amateurs Not Race with Pros?
(00:46:10) Racing Tactics and Strengths
(00:52:19) The Importance of Data in Racing
(01:02:28) Mental Blocks and Overcoming Challenges
(01:21:40) Recovery and Future Plans
In today's Ask a Cycling Coach podcast, Hannah Otto joins TrainerRoad to share insights from her recent Mediterranean Epic race experience. Jonathan and Hannah cover everything from strategic racing details to overcoming mental blocks and discuss testing nutrition and recovery approaches. Hannah also shares valuable tactical advice, mental strategies for marked racers, and explores how bike computer data can influence race-day decisions. Tune in for actionable takeaways, motivation, and more! Drop your questions for upcoming guests in the comments below!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road. Today we have Hannah |
| 0:03.3 | Otto with us. Hannah, you're fresh off of the Mediterranean Epic. Well, not fresh, fresh, |
| 0:07.8 | but more or less fresh off the Mediterranean Epic. And we're going to talk about that today. |
| 0:12.2 | We have a pro cyclist with us to talk all about the things that she learned during her race, |
| 0:16.3 | which is a pretty cool and unique opportunity. This is a really cool race. We're also going to get into some questions that you've submitted, |
| 0:22.6 | and you can submit those down below in the YouTube comments. |
| 0:24.7 | Just drop down below there, ask whatever questions you have, |
| 0:27.6 | and then we comb through and select and hand select a few, |
| 0:30.8 | depending on the guests that we have, depending on the topic. |
| 0:33.1 | If you want us to analyze your trainer road calendar in your training, |
| 0:36.7 | you can do that if you have a |
| 0:37.7 | train of road account can if you don't sign up for trainer road put all your training in there |
| 0:41.5 | then ask us your question we're happy to do it uh we can go through there and analyze that you can |
| 0:46.7 | leave also those requests down below the youtube comments and big news uh hannah i don't know if |
| 0:51.9 | you're a big swifter but but Train Road and Zwift now are |
| 0:56.1 | integrated together. So then you can load up Zwift and every day you can get an AI recommended |
| 1:00.3 | workout. It's super exciting. So if you haven't tuned into our social channels or across all of our |
| 1:05.1 | other content channels, you've probably missed all that. And you should go and do it. It's one click. |
| 1:09.2 | It sinks over. It's super awesome. With all that in |
| 1:12.2 | minds, Hannah, Mediterranean Epic, it's a four-day mountain bike stage race. It's kind of different because |
| 1:18.2 | it isn't just like Cape Epic other than the prolog is very, every day is like a really long |
| 1:23.7 | day and it's kind of similar in that regard. But these ones, there's a bit more, I guess, variety in the sense of like, you know, you have your prolog, but then it's not just like |
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