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[Jonathan]

@breeanna33

What I didn’t get from this podcast was for the “MTB starts” part - where the cyclist has good punchy power but not-so-good >5min power or whatever it was, why would you tell him to even out his racing and not put in punchy efforts during the race? I 100% get telling him to TRAIN the longer, lower power efforts because he is weak in that area. But wouldn’t you want to utilize your best skills - in his case, punchy power - during a race? As long as it doesn’t otherwise interfere with strategy.

With this athlete having a 3.0 w/kg and below 250w FTP on a course that challenging, going out hard at the beginning of the race would mess up the rest of the day. If the race were shorter and/or on a less demanding course, that would be different.

Their race strategy wasn’t to win, so instead an athlete should focus on how to get the most out of themselves on the day, and leaning into the strength of punchy sprint power will only make it so they blow up early, often, and perhaps end their day prematurely.

[mjw0]

Thanks for showing up @Jonathan. Happy Friday!

[JoPage]

I am really enjoying this podcast (haven’t quite finished it yet). A nice range of athletes, abilities, and questions

[Kendogz161]

Thinking back on this one, if Mr Lee would have done the same podcast but old school with the round table, laptops and Nate from the TR HQ.
So same pod but with the back and forth between the CEO and Mr Lee oh man that would have been👌

[lokerola]

I think we all miss the OG podcast.

[atdaberry]

I believe Nate doesn’t even ride anymore so I’m not sure how relevant his input is at this point.

[cassinonorth]

Yeah, he only seems to pop up when there’s a new feature to discuss. Which is totally fine, not many other CEO’s are doing podcasts for their companies.

[Kendogz161]

He still trains, I think at least once per week. He just posted a SS ride on Strava today.