Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right Training Plan, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 394
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🗓️ 15 December 2022
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(0:00) Ivy got 2nd at Singlespeed National Championships!
(11:19) How to pick the right training plan
(1:08:44) How to find your limiters
(1:09:33) Are you making a mistake by focusing on marginal gains?
(1:18:53) How hard should VO2max workouts really be?
(1:23:06) Should amateurs quit using CX bikes?
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| 0:00.0 | First things first before we cover anything else IVU just got second place at National |
| 0:03.8 | Championship single speed cyclocross national championships. Is this your first yeah which |
| 0:08.6 | Maxine play a pause noise there? Is this your first national championships podium? I don't think |
| 0:16.0 | it is right because you've had maybe track nationals I can't remember. It is my first oh wait no |
| 0:22.3 | collegiate collegiate national championships but last year in the single speed race I got the wide |
| 0:28.4 | angle podium I finished fourth so I don't know if you can consider that a podium like they gave |
| 0:32.5 | me a medal but we know it doesn't count if you're not count three so from a person this finished |
| 0:38.8 | fourth on the podium in national championships at a hundred percent counts I take that |
| 0:44.5 | from someone who's finished fourth and they didn't give them a medal. I've e rode the course |
| 0:52.1 | on single speed and also geared bikes can you just tell me like what sort of adjustments you had to |
| 0:57.7 | make because I think that's an interesting point maybe for all of us to understand. Yeah and this |
| 1:01.9 | this course is really hard to make decisions about equipment because of the changing conditions |
| 1:07.0 | of the course so it was in our national championships who were in Hartford Connecticut and it is winter |
| 1:12.5 | up here so um we had snow like a ton of snow on Sunday for the elite race and a bunch of |
| 1:18.2 | freezing and thawing overnight so that meant that earlier races than the day a lot of those |
| 1:22.9 | ruts that had been run in from earlier champion to braces on Wednesday Thursday Friday had now |
| 1:28.4 | the ruts had frozen so that's really tricky to ride you have to kind of commit to the rut or um |
| 1:34.9 | you know or crash that's scary though that's that's really scary right because the ruts are now like |
| 1:40.8 | they don't move right so like did you have to run more tire pressure because of that or something |
| 1:45.2 | or change the tires up that that would be sketchy totally and you do a pre-ride and you see these |
| 1:50.0 | frozen ruts and think you understand the conditions and then 45 minutes later when it's three degrees |
| 1:55.9 | warmer all of a sudden the conditions change and now it's super muddy and slick and now you have |
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