Valley of the Sun Stage Race – Stage 2: Road Race – Ask a Cycling Coach 246
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What we learned from fast racing, mechanicals and team tactics during a tricky road race at stage 2 of The Valley of The Sun Stage Race, what we plan to do for the stage 3 criterium and more in Episode 246 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
• How Keegan and Ryan launched a big breakaway and what they learned
• How Legion of Los Angeles lost almost their whole team
• What to do when you get dropped in a stage race
• How to attack a strong rider
• Racing a crit for fun vs. racing for the win
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road and coach Jonathan |
| 0:06.8 | Lee we have our CEO Nate Pearson with us. Oh, that's quick. We're rolling through quick and we also have stands pivot-ceracing and the current |
| 0:14.6 | US national cross-country pro champion Keegan Swenson. Hello, and we have in this case |
| 0:20.6 | It's a Ventomorn seals Ryan standish. What's up, man? Not much pro mountain biker as well |
| 0:26.1 | And if you are joining us for this episode right now you can listen to the previous one because we broke down |
| 0:32.0 | The stage race that we're currently at at least stage one of that |
| 0:34.7 | So we are the value of the Sun stage race in Phoenix Arizona stage one was a time trial |
| 0:38.8 | Ryan waxed us all really hard. They're racing in the one category one division Nate and I are category two and |
| 0:44.6 | Nate beat me by five seconds and that one in the TT |
| 0:47.0 | So we had a road race yesterday |
| 0:49.0 | I know yeah, it stinks |
| 0:51.4 | So we had a road race yesterday. Let's talk about that |
| 0:54.2 | 80 miles for us five laps six laps for you guys and roughly 95 95 |
| 1:01.0 | Did you attack off the front? |
| 1:03.0 | a little while a little while but not right from the start as tempting as it would be what was your plan and |
| 1:09.7 | How'd you execute against that plan? Oh, I mean our plan was just to try and get in the break me and Ryan told it from the start |
| 1:15.0 | He's like so I put our spare wheels in the break follow car. So we're going |
| 1:20.2 | It's a good technique confident power to there's two ball of parts |
| 1:25.1 | This is a road stage race to but there's two follow cars one for the Palatine one for the break |
| 1:29.3 | And we have one set wheel between the two of us for Sharon this weekend |
| 1:32.6 | Yeah, the guy who was driving the car was like I'm following the break and I was like that's good |
| 1:37.8 | We got number 77 and 74 |
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