WHY YOUR ZONE 2 TRAINING ISN’T WORKING — AND HOW TO FIX IT | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 531
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🗓️ 15 May 2025
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(00:00:00) Welcome!
(00:01:01) Rapid Fire Questions with Tobin
(00:02:39) Training Preferences and Strategies
(00:04:22) Tobin’s Favorite and Least Favorite Races
(00:05:53) Tobin’s Equipment Preferences and Choices
(00:15:24) How Tobin Analyzes His Season of Racing
(00:21:59) How Gravel Tactics are Different From Road
(00:39:30) How to Understand if Your FTP is Wrong
(00:58:02) How to Do Endurance on MTB Trails
(01:08:36) Managing Expectations and Comparisons in Cycling
In this episode, Coach Jonathan is joined by Santa Cruz ht.sqd’s Tobin Ortenblad to discuss gravel racing tactics, why your Zone 2 training isn’t making you faster and how to fix it, and the importance of skill work for mountain biking. Tobin and Jonathan cover a wide range of topics including interval training preferences, race tactics for gravel and road, choosing between different equipment setups, and finding motivation despite feeling slow. They also tackle listener questions on optimizing training when managing a full-time job and family commitments. Don't miss out on this insightful episode that’s sure to help you become a better cyclist. Got questions? Drop them in the comments below!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Aska Cycling Coach podcast, presented by trainer Rodham, coach Jonathan Lee. |
| 0:03.5 | And we have with us, Santa Cruz hit squads, Tobin-Oorten-Bload, the gravel and mountain bike |
| 0:09.4 | and off-road racer with a cyclocross. |
| 0:12.3 | I guess you still race cyclocross actually every year, it seems like. |
| 0:15.4 | I try to do a little bit every year. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, try to keep the UCI points current most more than anything. I was going to say |
| 0:22.9 | cyclocross passed, and that's where you may have come to know Tobin over the years, but now |
| 0:27.8 | Tobin, you find him racing at the Lifetime Grand Prix, everything else. We'll have links down to |
| 0:31.4 | Tobin's social profile, down to the hit squad's profile down below. Tobin, you're with us to |
| 0:35.8 | answer some of the questions that people have submitted down to the YouTube comments for this podcast. You can do that now if you're watching on |
| 0:40.6 | YouTube. Ask whatever training or cycling related question. Before we do any of that, though, |
| 0:44.9 | and we're going to cover things like sprinters or those with those sort of tendencies becoming |
| 0:49.7 | more endurance-focused athletes. We're also going to go over tactics and how they're different in gravel races than road races |
| 0:57.0 | and how people are maybe missing the misunderstanding that whole situation. |
| 1:00.3 | Lots of great stuff. |
| 1:01.5 | But first we have rapid fire questions, Tobin. |
| 1:03.6 | Let's go. |
| 1:05.0 | All right. |
| 1:05.5 | Sox over or socks under? |
| 1:07.1 | Oh, you know, people aren't going to like this. |
| 1:09.5 | I find it, frankly, I find it very situational if I'm being honest. |
| 1:15.4 | So I don't particularly like socks over leg warmers, but I do like socks over tights, |
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