What Pros Learned at Unbound Gravel – Ask a Cycling Coach 367
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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(1:04) Keegan’s race review
(19:00) Alex’s race review
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special episode of the only podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:06.8 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and this week we're going to be talking about unbound gravel with two athletes with Santa Cruz hit squads Kagan Swenson and also with the feed and ice frictions Alex wild |
| 0:16.4 | I assume you'll be wondering why aren't we talking to Sophia Gomez video funnier as well considering she had an impressive result in one |
| 0:23.5 | And we try to reach out to her but she was unavailable so |
| 0:26.0 | But we get to learn from these two athletes. It's a short podcast today and we are going to ask these athletes what their strategy was |
| 0:32.3 | We are going to find out what went well what didn't go well and what they plan to do next time they race it to do better |
| 0:38.0 | This is cool because it shows that pro athletes even at the top of the game |
| 0:42.3 | Kagan for example being outspirited by just basically a bike length at the end after 200 miles |
| 0:46.9 | It's just crazy |
| 0:47.7 | But these athletes at the top of the game they still make mistakes and they still learn and it's really cool to be able to see that |
| 0:53.9 | And hopefully that can teach us to always learn from our performances good or bad win or lose |
| 0:58.5 | So I hope you enjoy this special episode without further ado. Let's jump right in |
| 1:03.9 | Santa Cruz hit squad and monster energies Kagan Swenson good to have you Kagan |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah, thanks for having me |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah, you got second place at unbound and let's go into this some of the details nine hours and 22 minutes and five seconds |
| 1:16.6 | You average 21.3 miles an hour 33 34.3 kilometers per hour |
| 1:21.5 | You had an average power of 272 and a normalized power of |
| 1:26.9 | 304 watts for all nine hours and 22 minutes which is insane because I think that's my threshold right now and you did it for nine and a half hours |
| 1:34.8 | 1,163 watt max which was not in the sprint finish |
| 1:38.5 | It was actually the climb into campus that you were doing when Ian Boswell attacked and you matched that one |
| 1:44.4 | I believe is Ian Boswell that attacked there and |
| 1:46.7 | And then one thousand eighty eight was your five second power and that was on the same climb to campus and during the the sprint finish |
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