Special Guest: Amber Pierce – Ask a Cycling Coach 193
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Amber Pierce has more than ten years of experience in the pro women’s peloton and more than 60 race wins across 5 continents. She’s incredibly knowledgeable regarding performance, human physiology, and women’s specific issues within the sport of cycling, and we are excited to have her as our special guest!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• What it’s like to race in the women’s pro peloton
• How fast do you have to be to be competitive in women’s racing?
• The perks and challenges of racing for a pro team
• How to fuel your training
• Managing eating disorders as a cyclist
• The best way for women to get started in racing
• Why Americans have such a hard time with international racing
• The role of cognitive load in your performance
• How to psychologically recover from a crash
• How to balance training with hormonal cycles
• Women’s specific equipment
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LINKS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
• www.AmberPierce.us
• National Eating Disorders Association: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
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• Gavilian BFF Bike Bag: https://www.radicalvelo.com/trave/gavilan-bff
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cyclist coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.6 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach chats in room. Hello our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:09.6 | Hello, as you can tell there are more than three of us today. You counted right? |
| 0:13.2 | We also have canondale pro cyclist Amber Pierce with us. Hello. How you doing? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me |
| 0:19.3 | Yeah, yeah, so for those that don't know |
| 0:21.5 | I guess we can give like I'm gonna give a brief background you but please correct me if I screw it up |
| 0:27.2 | First of all you're actually from this region. Yeah, and I believe you and you and Nate swam together in high school even right? |
| 0:34.1 | Sorta. Yeah, yeah, he was in like a special club. She was super fast |
| 0:38.2 | I wasn't just like she didn't even swim the same pool because you were so fast. Wow |
| 0:42.8 | Right, wow. Well, yeah, I have like a like a waiver for the physical education component of it to go through my coaches |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah, cool |
| 0:50.2 | So we're gonna get into a bit of the swimming stuff too in just a little bit |
| 0:53.3 | But first of all you're two time collegiate national champion |
| 0:56.3 | You have over 10 years of racing on in the pro peloton as a doma-steak |
| 1:01.3 | You've supported world champs and Olympic medalists. It's pretty impressive stuff |
| 1:05.5 | 60 race wins across five continents. I have not that many wins across one continent |
| 1:13.8 | And then so right now you've written for a bunch of different proteins that you ride for a canndale Mavic |
| 1:19.5 | Store cycle center bike flights cliff bar |
| 1:23.0 | Athlos and in yours. I use in your junior |
| 1:28.3 | What's in your it's bicycle tools and their manufactured in Slovenia |
| 1:34.0 | Really really nice. Well, I mean they have a in obviously a factory there and everything |
| 1:38.4 | But I mean it's really really nice stuff. Yeah, and they just recently in the last few years |
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