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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Runners High, Racing FOMO, Power-to-Weight Ratio, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 465

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

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4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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(01:10:50) Why you’re slow and don’t realize it

(01:22:02) How to mentally cope with missing races

(01:35:07) Should athletes fast from social media?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist.

0:02.8

The Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer Road.

0:05.6

We have Hannah Otto with us today and our CEO Nate Pearson.

0:08.4

Today we're going to talk about runners high but on the cycling perspective and I

0:11.6

dove into some research on this and I was actually very

0:13.7

surprised. I had it completely wrong. I misunderstood it. It'll be fun to look into. We're also going to talk about

0:19.9

racing FOMO that we may have early season and may or may not who knows and then also

0:26.9

power to weight rates it's gonna be good stuff so right now if people are

0:29.2

listening to this nates red light green light it's an early access do you want to I've done like a whole lot of thinking and

0:35.1

outlining on the marketing side of things recently has been really fun to like think about this feature

0:38.8

and stuff and it's also been really cool to see the feedback from the athletes so you want to explain

0:41.7

it really quick and encourage people to sign up so they can do it or enable it I should say?

0:45.6

What it is, it's ability, it's a brand new thing that no one's done before that is designed to prevent you from getting burned out.

0:55.4

So it predicts fatigue before it happens

0:57.5

and adjust your training to get you on track.

1:00.3

So it's different than just saying you're tired today.

1:02.5

What it's saying is if you do this workout today,

1:05.2

if you do this intensity of work today,

1:06.7

you're going to be tired in the future.

1:08.5

There's a big difference between those two things.

1:10.5

A lot of people say,

1:11.2

if you're tired today, don't train, which is one thing. But saying

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