Technical Riding and Simulated Elevation with Hannah Otto | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 495
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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00:00:00 Welcome!
00:00:24 Marathon Mountain Bike World Championships
00:01:47 Technical Challenges and Course Conditions
00:08:53 Bike Setup and Strategy
00:11:24 Handling Technical Terrain Like Slick Roots
00:32:53 Illness and Race Decisions
00:40:41 Balancing Fitness in Short and Long Races
00:44:13 The Slippery Slope of Overtraining
00:46:43 Preparing for Leadville: Altitude Concerns
00:48:14 Simulated Hypoxia vs. True Hypoxia
00:52:51 Training Strategies for High Altitude Races
01:01:14 The Importance of Pacing at Leadville
01:08:26 Considering the Cost of Altitude Training
In this episode, Hannah Auto joins to discuss her experiences from the Marathon Mountain Bike World Championships and delve into the topic of high-altitude training. They explore the challenges of riding technical terrain like slick roots, and why elevation training for Leadville might not be worth it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. |
| 0:02.8 | That's a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer Road. |
| 0:05.0 | We have Hannah Otto with us and our CEO Nate Pearson. |
| 0:07.2 | Today we're going to talk about what Hannah's learned from a recent racing. |
| 0:10.0 | We're also going to talk a little bit about simulated hypoxia. |
| 0:13.1 | It's getting more and more popular at gyms or through different devices that you can get. |
| 0:17.2 | And if it's worth implementing, especially for athletes doing Leadville, like the question that we got from |
| 0:21.4 | Ian here asking about that. |
| 0:23.2 | But first things first, Hannah. |
| 0:26.0 | We just got done with two weekends of racing in a row |
| 0:28.0 | that couldn't have been more different. |
| 0:29.8 | There was marathon mountain Bike World Championships. |
| 0:33.2 | And for those that don't know what that is, |
| 0:35.0 | can you explain how that's different |
| 0:36.1 | than like the normal Mountain Bike World Championships |
| 0:38.8 | that they may see on TV or read about |
| 0:41.4 | that people hear about? |
| 0:42.4 | Yeah, Marathon Mountain Bike World Championships is, well, it's a marathon, which means it's typically at least a hundred K. That's kind of the number that usually it floats around and then but as you know a hundred |
| 0:56.8 | K on the mountain bike varies a lot in time duration. So I think over the years we've seen times anywhere from like three and a half hours to around five hours. |
| 1:07.7 | I did a marathon mountain bike world cup this year where I placed second and that was about seven hours. So it just depends on the course. |
| 1:16.2 | And yeah, so but it's a long race. It's for endurance athletes. |
| 1:23.6 | And this is in West Virginia at a Snowshoe, where they've had normal cross-country Olympic |
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