How to Stay Committed to Racing

It's a super weird feeling to settle into this medium, hard effort and especially in contrast to something like cycle cross. It's so mentally weird to feel like it almost feels like you're not racing. I want to go to a race and survey the pro men and women's fields and every single person that knows their power to weight ratio. And if there's a wider spread of power to weight ratios, that should also imply that there should be a wider variance in terms of pacing strategies. You have to pace appropriately to your abilities, not to somebody else.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

(0:00) 🏁 Ivy and Jonathan are racing Singletrack 6! Short preview, expectations, etc.

(16:00) 🫁 Do inspiratory and respiratory breathing (breath training) devices make you faster?

(33:09) 🥵 What is the maximum amount of training busy professionals should do? (Balancing work with training)

(42:15) 🧐 Why you aren’t getting faster (Why isn’t my training working?)

(57:02) 🔥 Why you are getting dropped in race starts (how to train for hard starts)

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

- Singletrack 6 Stage Breakdowns: https://trainerroad.cc/st6spreadsheet

- Effect of respiratory muscle training on exercise performance in healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Illi, et al., 2012: https://trainerroad.cc/Illi2012

- Influence of Inspiratory Muscle Training on Ventilatory Efficiency and Cycling Performance in Normoxia and Hypoxia, Salazar-Martinez, et al., 2017: https://trainerroad.cc/SalazarMartinez2017

- Inspiratory muscle training improves cycling time-trial performance and anaerobic work capacity but not critical power, Johnson, et al., 2007: https://trainerroad.cc/Johnson2017

- Time to Move Beyond a “One-Size Fits All” Approach to Inspiratory Muscle Training, Shei, et al., 2022: https://trainerroad.cc/Shei2022

- Grinduro California: https://trainerroad.cc/GrinduroCA

- Stetina’s Paydirt: https://trainerroad.cc/StetinasPaydirt

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