Pro Pacing, Sleep Drugs, Trivia, and More - Ask a Cycling Coach 387

Join Rocket Sloth Co’s Ryan Standish and Squid Bikes Ivy Audrain as we cover how these pros pace different types of races, whether they avoid melatonin and other over the counter medications to enhance sleep, how to manage nutrition without tracking macros and calories, and for our first ever AACC Cycling Trivia!

 

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

 

(0:52) How to manage nutrition without food tracking

(19:10) Ry Guy Rapid Fire!

(27:24) What is the best cross-training sport for cyclists?

(32:42) What cycling discipline requires the least amount of training time to be competitive?

(40:12) How to optimize your sleep without drugs

(50:08) Cycling Trivia!!!

(01:09:31) Can muscular people still be good cyclists?

(01:22:42) Are you pacing your efforts wrong?

(01:31:54) Training for a 10hr race on limited time

 

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