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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Valley of the Sun Stage Race – Stage 1: Time Trial – Ask a Cycling Coach 245

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

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4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Ryan Standish and Keegan Swenson join the TrainerRoad Crew to discuss their experience in stage 1 of The Valley of The Sun Stage Race, the time trial, their race strategies going into stage 2 and more in Episode 245 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Special guests Keegan Swenson and Ryan Standish are with the TrainerRoad Crew at Valley of the Sun!
  • A recap of how the time trial went for Ryan and Keegan
  • Ryan and Keegan's plan for the road race
  • Nutrition planning for a long road race
  • Did Nate beat Jonathan in the time trial?
  • Nate and Jonathan's plan for the road race

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0:00.0

Welcome to a special episode of the only podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the Ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:06.7

I'm coach Jonathan Lee and to my left. We have our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. We have Keegan Swenson

0:12.1

US national champion and writer for Stan's pivot. Hello. How you doing man? Oh good. Nice to have us. Yeah. Welcome back

0:18.1

I should say mountain bike national champion and

0:21.0

You met him before

0:23.0

It's actually a joke

0:24.0

Yeah, like when I mentioned your name like people drink on the podcast

0:26.9

So get ready to get you talk about you a lot get ready get ready to get hammered. We talk too much

0:32.3

That's the problem

0:33.8

Get ready to get hammered if you're doing that and then right next to me to my right

0:37.9

We have Ryan's sandwich from Hornseal. How you doing man pretty good. Thanks for having me. Yeah, what other sponsors?

0:43.6

What other sponsors you're right throwing for this race ventum for this race? Yeah, Ventum racing for the road bikes

0:50.0

That's about it for now cool. That's all I can say right now

0:53.0

Okay, sounds good. Yeah, and we are obviously not in the studio if you're watching on YouTube

0:57.6

You can do that I would recommend subscribing to our YouTube channel so you can check that out

1:01.4

Just train a road car YouTube calm slash train a road easy to do you'll catch tons of stuff on there

1:05.8

We are at Valley of the Sun stage race. It's a road stage race one of the biggest amateur stage races in the United States

1:11.3

I would say one of them in Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona

1:15.4

Yeah, one of the biggest in Phoenix

1:17.4

And

1:19.4

We just did stage one. It's a three-stage race. It has a time trial about a 15-mile time trial with about 350 feet of climbing in it

1:27.6

So not a lot just kind of rolling it up. It seemed like a lot enough, right?

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