dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road today we have Sarah Laverty here from trainer road with us and our CEO Nate Pearson and we're going to review more research that we've been covering Sarah last episode was super popular popular with people. They really loved it. We're going to cover more of it. Studies from the Tour de France, studies from the Spring

Classics, recent studies that have been published in the last few weeks. really cool stuff.

Sarah, let's just get right into it.

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in terms of sports and education and everything else even in the research realm

But Sarah let's just start off with the first study unless Nate do you have anything to cover beforehand or should we just jump right in? Jump in

All right. I like it.

Cool.

Go ahead, Sarah.

So we're looking at Shal and colleagues, their paper published in 2021,

and they were looking at female runners and whether their response to an increased

training volume was related to changes in their energy intake and their ability to maintain their energy availability.

So they weren't controlling for these variables, they were just observing whether they did increase their energy intake naturally and in

response to hunger cues. So first of all they had them training at baseline for four weeks just to establish their normal training volume.

That started on the first day of their menstrual cycle.

So just how line their menstrual cycles.

So just outline everyone's cycles so that they would be able to measure as well their ovarian

function through their estuetile concentration had an impact also on a variant

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