Tapering, Fitness Plateaus, Doping, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 474
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
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(0:00) Welcome!
(0:23) Hannah Race Updates
(27:27) Hannahs next race (Unbound)
(29:54) How do you taper for an event
(35:16) How do you adjust off the bike activities when tapering
(39:23) How does Hannah manage social media and distractions
(43:07) How to change nutrition during a taper
(49:48) Breaking through plateaus in fitness
(58:09) What is the next major innovation in cycling?
(01:06:59) Is doping a thing of the past?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ask A Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road. Today we are going to be talking about |
| 0:05.7 | fitness plateaus. We're also going to be talking about doping and we're going to talk about a handful of other things. |
| 0:11.6 | It's going to be great, a really cool episode here and we have going to talk about a handful of other things. It's going to be great, really cool episode here. |
| 0:14.0 | We have Hannah Otto joining us. So Racing for Pivot Cycles, D.T. Swiss, competitive cyclist. |
| 0:19.3 | Good to have you, Hannah. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:22.1 | Yeah, for sure. Before we go any further, I want have you have |
| 0:27.0 | had you on. Thanks for having me. Yeah, for sure. Before we go any further, I want to talk to you about |
| 0:26.3 | your racing because since we've had you on, we had you on just before BWR Utah effectively, but since then you've raised BWR Utah, you've raised Seattle, you've raced ski off road, |
| 0:38.0 | and I want to hear what you've learned about or learned from each one of those. So first, BWR, Utah, the weather was like, |
| 0:44.0 | super in question coming into that race. It was a long race. They ended up shortening it slightly, |
| 0:49.0 | but it was still a really long, it's like a long course and pretty tough course. |
| 0:53.0 | If I remember correctly you came in fourth on that one. |
| 0:56.0 | Yes, yeah. |
| 0:58.0 | And you mentioned that it was one of those days where it was like it was not a day where it came easy and I want to talk about that because I think that everybody when they're in the situation when they're racing you think you're the only one that feels like you're just having an off day so I want to find out like how you figured out it was an off day and |
| 1:14.3 | then how you rallied against that. Yeah, these are great questions. I mean now |
| 1:19.2 | it definitely was not in a race. |
| 1:22.6 | You know, it was more within the scope of my season. |
| 1:26.2 | It's so hard to label races nowadays |
| 1:29.2 | because BWR is obviously a huge series, |
| 1:32.2 | so you never just go, and it's a long race so you don't just |
| 1:34.9 | go in like oh I don't care so I don't want to make it sound like that but I |
| 1:40.2 | think that's maybe the important point here is just because something is a quote unquote |
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