Season 3, Ep. 16 How to Be a Faster Mountain Biker with Matt Miller
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The Differences Between Road Racing and Mountain Bike Racing
A mountain bike race is a lot of hard efforts, but yet it's still at the core, this aerobic test. In road cycling, you need to do really sustained efforts. But if you kind of race where I grew up on the Eastern USA, the trails are hard and punchy. So you need to go really hard for a short period of time and then you get a really short rest. And in mountain biking, we always usually are producing power at a really low cadence so the torque is really high.
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