Threshold Training, Antacids, Repeatability, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 441
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🗓️ 21 September 2023
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(0:00) Welcome!
(1:49) Getting to know Zach Calton
(16:17) Pro tips on how to make threshold training less miserable and more productive
(31:23) Can antacids make you faster?
(45:36) Zach and Ryan’s favorite ways to train repeatability
(55:36) How to train for a race series / a lot of races in a short time
(1:09:22) What’s up with collegiate cycling in the US?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast presented by train road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee. |
| 0:06.3 | We have a new guest with us. It's never been on the podcast before today. We have in during or first endurance is at Calton. Zach. Good to have you. |
| 0:15.2 | Good to be here. Thank you for having me. Really excited to be here. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm we're going to ensure you in just a second. We also have your ex teammate Ryan standish with us. So it's good to have rocket slothcoes, Scott bikes. |
| 0:29.6 | Let me think who else and Dura pit viper. |
| 0:33.6 | Oscar blues. |
| 0:35.3 | Orange seal. There we go. Yes, Kenda. I think I got them all. So it's like Ricky Bobby over here. So |
| 0:43.0 | But Ryan standish. Good to have you back. |
| 0:46.4 | Good to be back. I'm still working on the fake news across my across my glasses. But |
| 0:52.7 | Yeah, yeah, be good. Okay. So we got this question. This is like a couple months ago, but it's perfect for the |
| 0:59.4 | opportunity. It's from Ryan and Ryan. Ryan, maybe this is you. And you're just like sneaking into this way. |
| 1:06.0 | And maybe you just wanted to be on the podcast with Zach. But it says, look, I love keegan and all, but I can't relate to aliens that seem to not experience the effects of altitude. |
| 1:14.8 | Can you get some other lifetime grand prix athletes on? I really enjoyed hearing from Ryan standish on your recent episodes. And I was hoping we could hear from others like Zach |
| 1:21.7 | Kouten, Howard Grotz, Braden Lang, even Brennan words. I would love to get Brennan and Braden and how he, although how he might just like tell us that like he |
| 1:32.8 | doesn't train. And he just like rides with mountain goats for like 17 hours a day. And that's how he does it. Because I think that's how how he rolls could be |
| 1:40.0 | interesting. Just same. But yeah, but well then Ryan, a question submitter. Yeah, yeah, question submitter Ryan, not Ryan standish. Let's get to |
| 1:49.5 | know Zach, I came up with a list of questions that's absolutely comprehensive. And after these questions, we will know everything about Zach, only the important details. |
| 1:57.7 | Zach, what's your FTP and your what KG? |
| 2:02.1 | I have to piece around 350, which puts that. Oh, man, I got to do some math here. What's the three 50 like 5.55 looks like. |
| 2:16.8 | Nice. Don't forget that. Don't forget that 10th. I like it. Favorite, least favorite type of workouts. So your favorite and your least favorite. |
| 2:25.8 | Yeah, my favorite would just be like a big long ride with just like some tempo efforts in there. You know, nothing super intense, but like five, six hours where you can go. |
| 2:41.4 | You can go places, you know, get that was in on the weekend. That's my favorite type of ride. |
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