Read the Race Like a Pro, A-Race Recovery, Injuries and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 295
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
Learn from Amber Pierce, Alex Wild and Pete Morris how they read a race like a pro, how much time you need to recover between A-Races, how to use injuries to get faster and much more in Episode 295 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Intro 0:00
- How to get more out of your training calendar 3:40
- How to balance riding, training, and racing 14:39
- How to use an injury to get faster 27:18
- How to read the race like a pro 44:42
- Favorite on-the-bike drinks 1:30:15
- Kettlebell exercises for cyclists 1:32:14
- How to train after an injury 1:35:28
- Why you might not need 90g of carbs per hour 1:40:43
- Is there an ideal power for crit racing? 1:42:44
- Bike handling skills for gravel racers 1:44:26
- How much recovery is required after an A-Race? 1:55:18
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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 |
| 0:05.7 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee we have with us canondale and trainer roads amber piers good morning everyone |
| 0:11.4 | We also have with us orange seal and specialized Alex wild |
| 0:16.0 | my friends and we have cliff bar racing and people more and train the roads peep Morris |
| 0:21.4 | He's more speed Morris |
| 0:23.6 | presented by me |
| 0:25.6 | It's good to have everyone here. I'm excited for this one today. We're going to answer more of the questions you submitted at trainer road.com slash podcast go there right now |
| 0:34.5 | Submit the questions you have even those burning of all desire questions throw them in there |
| 0:39.2 | Even if they're ridiculous, hopefully we can answer them like maybe in the rapid fire section |
| 0:43.7 | Also, I just want to give everybody a quick heads up in terms of what we'll be doing here today |
| 0:47.8 | We're going to be covering and taking advantage all of your amazing racing knowledge that we have here amongst the the three of you |
| 0:53.4 | And we are going to talk about how to read a race like a pro and a whole lot of different races |
| 0:58.2 | We're going to get into like specific anecdotes |
| 1:00.2 | But then we're also going to get into just general like theoretical concepts around this whole thing too |
| 1:04.6 | It's going to be good. We're going to talk about how to recover between a races. Do you need to recover? How much time? |
| 1:11.5 | What should be considered an a race or a b race all that stuff? |
| 1:14.8 | That'll be fun since a lot of us are looking ahead for the year maybe events are already being canceled |
| 1:19.6 | So we're kind of shifting around plans. It's a good time to do it |
| 1:22.1 | And then we're also going to talk about how to switch your perspective and have a paradigm shift with injuries and instead of just looking at as a downside |
| 1:29.9 | How you can use that to actually become faster. So I am we're going to cover even more questions in that |
| 1:34.8 | So but first go to trainer row.com |
| 1:37.2 | Sign up get faster all the people sending in questions here |
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