Team Camp Special: Team Marc Pro Cycling – Ask a Cycling Coach 148

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the second part of our mini-series on training camps we spoke with Team Marc Pro Cycling on how they use team camps to get faster, and dug into team roles and stage racing tactics and strategy.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

• The difference between crit and road race focused teams
• How to bond as a team with training
• How to use a training camp right before a goal race
• How to use a training camp to start your season
• How to use a team camp if you are coming back from injury
• The different purposes of a team camp
• How to rank team mates during a team camp
• How fast are pro cyclists compare to average joes
• How to decide team roles with a fitness test
• How to prep for big stage races
• Heat acclimation for hot racing
• Is competition bad within a team?
• How to race an unfamiliar race
• What a GC rider should do on a sprint stage
• How to read a race with new racers
• How to adjust your race strategy on the fly
• Why foreign riders can be at a disadvantage in TTs
• How to recon a foreign race
• What you should do right after a race
• Stage race nutrition
• How many calories do pro cyclists burn
• How to maintain mental fortitude during a stage race

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, coach Jonathan here back again with another special episode in our series
0:04.5	on team camps this week with team Mark Pro.
0:08.1	Their team based out of Northern California, however they race all around the world as you'll
0:11.9	hear in this episode.
0:13.7	We took some time to discuss team camps while we were at their team camp in Marin County
0:18.2	California.
0:19.4	And we discussed the usual questions like we did with team Cliff Bar last week about how
0:22.9	you can use a team camp to improve your fitness or based on different types of fitness that
0:28.0	you're carrying in, what you can get from team camp.
0:30.9	We also dug into tactics, especially into the roles that different riders have and how
0:36.2	they decide who's going to carry the weight in races.
0:39.5	We discussed the context of stage racing with them as well, which is a commonly requested
0:43.2	topic.
0:44.2	And we'll dig into that even more this week coming up with another episode where we'll
0:47.6	actually have Dave Christensen, who is a racer, who races internationally at UCI Pro
0:52.5	races for Mark Pro.
0:54.4	And he also happens to be our filmmaker here at Trainer Road, but he has a ton of experience
0:58.3	racing and stage races all around the world.
1:00.8	So we're going to dig deep into that in the upcoming episode as well as this episode.
1:05.9	So without further ado, we hope you enjoy this episode with team Mark Pro.
1:10.4	Welcome to the podcast that's dedicated to making a faster cyclist, the Asuka cycling
1:13.9	coach podcast presented by Trainer Road.
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