UNBOUND GRAVEL PREVIEW + RACE NUTRITION TIPS | Dietitian ALEX LARSON | Ask a Cycling Coach 533
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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(00:00) Welcome!
(01:02) Alex Larson's First Gravel Race Experience
(08:59) Jonathan's Stetina’s Paydirt Race Recap and Lessons Learned
(20:36) Upcoming Races and Training Insights
(22:38) Unbound Gravel Race Preview
(33:30) Alex’s Supplement Recommendations and Usage
(49:30) Balancing Nutrition and Mental Wellbeing
In this Ask a Cycling Coach episode presented by Trainer Road, Coach Jonathan Lee is joined by Alex Larson from Alex Larson Nutrition. They deep dive into Alex and Jonathan’s recent race experiences, Unbound Gravel, and discuss practical advice for cyclists on how to balance restrictive and non-restrictive eating habits, supplement suggestions, and the importance of structured nutrition plans.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee. We have with us Alex of us that aren't racing it and kind of wanting to watch the chaos from the outside in and we like can't look away sort of a |
| 0:25.1 | thing. It's just some good points of reference for all of us. We're also going to go into very |
| 0:28.9 | practical nutrition tips for us cyclists as well, particularly looking into how to balance |
| 0:34.7 | but always tricky kind of like deprivation instincts or perhaps |
| 0:40.7 | pressures that we feel. And then also on the other side, you know, still also putting limits on |
| 0:46.2 | ourselves. It's really tricky. We're going to talk about how to balance all that and hopefully |
| 0:49.9 | get some good information for all of us that want to be faster. And if you are watching this right now, you can give it a thumbs up. |
| 0:56.0 | More cyclists will be reached. |
| 0:57.4 | Thusly, more people will get faster, and we want to make the world a faster place. |
| 1:00.5 | It's the whole point of doing this. |
| 1:02.5 | Alex, let's talk about your race. |
| 1:04.3 | You did a gravel race. |
| 1:06.0 | Well, yeah, my first bike race ever, really, other than triathlon. |
| 1:10.0 | And I went up to grand marie |
| 1:12.4 | minnesota i did the the grand du nord there 50 mile race um beautiful up there it was awesome |
| 1:18.1 | course gravel was great um i learned a lot though that's for sure yeah let's get into that so |
| 1:25.4 | this is way north this is like on the northish-ish, northwest-ish side of Lake Superior up there. |
| 1:31.4 | Yes, it's very close to the Canadian border. |
| 1:33.9 | So we had quite a few Canadians that came down and crushed it. |
| 1:38.4 | So shout-out-to-them. |
| 1:39.3 | They were very strong cyclists. |
| 1:41.7 | It was fun. |
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