{"id":19181,"date":"2016-02-09T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T03:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trainerroad.com\/?p=19181"},"modified":"2020-03-04T08:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:24:38","slug":"criterium-racing-101-with-the-clif-bar-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/criterium-racing-101-with-the-clif-bar-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Criterium Racing 101 with The Clif Bar Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we had the opportunity to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/clifbarracing\/\">The Clif Bar Team<\/a> for their annual training camp in Napa Valley, California. In between training sessions we sat down with some of the best criterium racers in the country to find out how to become a better crit racer.<\/p>\n<p>We covered how to train for criterium racing, how a course profile will affect the race, how to pace yourself,\u00a0how to utilize and leverage team tactics and more. Listen to the full episode below and check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/cycling\/plans\/category\/18-road\">criterium training plan<\/a> to get faster.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/246198273&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a name=\"hr\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Additional Notes<\/h2>\n<p>TrainerRoad&#8217;s <em>Ask a Cycling Coach\u00a0<\/em>podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. It gives you the chance to get answers to your cycling and triathlon training questions from USAC certified coaches Chad Timmerman, Jonathan Lee and special guests.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"lead\">If you have a\u00a0question that you&#8217;d like to ask Coach Chad, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1ya3EOx0tWRpwlF8TfxdcKL2UeESgBoEAwpLVmwrlt3g\/viewform?usp=send_form\">submit your question here<\/a>. We&#8217;ll do our best to answer them on\u00a0the next episode of the <em>Ask a Cycling Coach<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we had the opportunity to join The Clif Bar Team for their annual training camp in Napa Valley, California. In between training sessions we sat down with some of the best criterium racers in the country to find out how to become a better crit racer. We covered how to train for criterium&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":19231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[43,81,115,141,142,378,498,651,658,713],"class_list":["post-19181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-ask-a-cycling-coach","tag-breakaway","tag-clif-bar","tag-crit","tag-criterium","tag-leadout","tag-podcast","tag-tactics","tag-team","tag-training-camp"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}