Recognizing Fatigue, Pros’ Favorite Workouts, Gravel Nats, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 440
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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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(0:00) Welcome!
(01:08) Gravel National Championships discussion with Tobin
(13:10) Ivy’s UCI Cyclocross racing plans for this season
(22:20) Tobin’s warmup for cyclocross
(24:00) Ivy’s tips for pre-riding a course, and whether it’s more important than a warmup
(25:41) Tobin’s tips for how to learn a course quickly
(26:30) Tobin’s key rule about how to test tire choice and pressure on a course
(27:39) Tobin’s tips on how to know if you should run or hop barriers
(29:47) Should you break the golden rule and go hard at the beginning of a race in CX?
(30:31) Should you surge out of corners or try to ride smooth in cyclocross?
(32:22) How to avoid losing positions at the beginning of a race
(35:30) Ivy and Tobin’s favorite cyclocross workouts
(41:45) Is cyclocross training different from criterium training?
(45:45) Pros’ favorite workouts for road racing
(48:28) How cross-country MTB training is different from other forms of training
(52:36) Should your bike handling technique change or stay the same from bike to bike?
(1:02:09) How pros’ recognize signs of fatigue when HRV doesn’t seem to correlate
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.0 | We have Santa Cruz hit squad's Tobin or blot back by popular demand with us |
| 0:09.1 | And we also have Ventum bikes IV all drain |
| 0:11.8 | Stoked for this crew. We have to pro athletes since today. We're going to talk about gravel national championships |
| 0:15.9 | That's where Tobin is |
| 0:17.1 | He's actually probably in a hotel in Nebraska somewhere for that race right now. He's in a cornfield. Yes |
| 0:22.7 | Sorry, we're going to talk to you too about how you change your training for different disciplines like key workouts |
| 0:28.6 | That you like to do for different training phases that sort of stuff and we'll talk about that in general |
| 0:33.2 | I'll talk about whether your bike handling should change from bike to bike when you change things up |
| 0:37.1 | And also signs that you all use to know when you're fatigued to hopefully help out some listeners |
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| 0:54.9 | First things first Tobin you're at gravel national championship |
| 0:57.8 | So I think this is the first one where I feel like it's been taken seriously |
| 1:01.0 | Or is this the first one that's actually been sanctioned by you sack. What's the difference and what are you doing there? |
| 1:08.2 | Um, yeah, so original this wasn't on the schedule through the team, but last minute |
| 1:13.6 | We threw it in there. There's a bunch of prize money at this event |
| 1:17.7 | Well, that's not standard for a national champion. No, I think it was not enough. I have private |
| 1:23.1 | It's not put up by USA cycling. It's a private |
| 1:26.8 | A sponsor or a person who knows um 60k is it hit squad? Is it hit squad? |
| 1:32.8 | It's not it's not hit squad |
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