a good couple of 20 minute efforts into every ride that they're doing and then have one day

then where they're just doing the bigger mileage and just getting that zone to ride in and

and yeah building on time on the bike basically

the triathlon, episode 88.

Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael, and on today's episode, I talk to fellow Scandinavian and fellow Swedish

speaking coach Magnus Maggie Bexstead.

He's a former road cyclist and, among other achievements, a Paris Roubaix winner.

And did you know, by the way, that about me that I'm Swedish speaking and not Finnish speaking?

I'm not sure I've been talking about that before on the podcast, but that's the fact

Swedish is a minority language, an official language in Finland. So there there you may have learned something new today.

Anyway, I talk to Magnus Beckstead and we discuss things like indoor versus outdoor cycling

for triathletes, the intensity versus volume debate, maybe it's not one or the other. Anyway, we'll

hear Magnus take on the two

variables of training how important are power meters really and can you get

by on just heart rate if you don't have one we get into mistakes that

triathletes typically make in their bike training and finally one very very

interesting thing is we discussed what

Magnus did in his swimming and running when he got into age group triathlon after his professional

cycling career quite a bit after, I believe. But he became very competitive and qualified for

Kona within eight months of starting out and as you'll hear it isn't because

he was some kind of supernatural at swimming or running but just hearing his approach

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