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Pro Cyclocross Strategy, Tire Choice, and More with Tobin Ortenblad – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 432

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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How to Climb a Mountain Bike

The course starts just under 5,000 feet and climbs up to almost 7,000 feet. There's no middle bits in that climb where it's flat or even downhill. The strategy was to pace myself at 80% of FTP during that climb so that I could have enough energy to go smooth through the technical downhill sections with push hard on the last five miles. Gabriel started out around nine but worked his way down to eight before cramping.

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