Welcome to a special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road, the only podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist.

Today we are going to be talking to trainer road athletes, regular folks like you and I who have used trainer road to qualify for Ironman World Championships in Hawaii this weekend.

And actually this week as well, it's a super exciting week.

And as you're hearing this right now, the majority of the athletes interviewed in this short podcast episode are actually either in the water or transitioning onto the bike. Super exciting.

So you can tune in, find their names on the Ironman app, cheer them on.

But what we want to do here with this episode is find consensus.

We're going to ask them the same questions and we're going to find out where athletes are doing the same thing and then where they're doing something different.

And hopefully if one athlete is doing something different, you might relate to that athlete and you can get a learning or if everybody's doing something that's the same, maybe you can start doing that as well as that could give you a tip on how to improve your performance.

So without further ado and cyclists don't tune out.

This is where you can get massive learnings from these athletes as well.

Enjoy this special short episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast.

Hi, my name is Ray Brinkus. Hi, I'm Pat.

Hi, everybody.

My name is Diane Hamzel.

My name is Liz Mahoney. I'm a group.

I use trainer road and I use trainer road and I use trainer road and I use trainer road and I use trainer road to qualify for Ironman World

Fantasy. What age group are you racing?

I'm racing in age group 45 to 49.

I'm in the 50 to 54 age group. I just turned 50.

So it's a new age group.

50s at 55.

I am racing the women's 50 to 54 age group.

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