EVOQ.BIKE Cycling Podcast

🍣🍨

Welcome back to Part 2 With Alex Hoehn! Topics Include: Go on a Senior Cruise or Slay the Gila Monster? What does it take to become a pro? Biggest goal race…Worlds? Nationals? 2.HC? Dealing with pre-race nerves. Find that calm. Not over focusing on the foods Keep it simple Pre-race: eat 3 hours before the race; Oats, Peanut Butter, Fruits, Honey/Jelly/Nutella Not getting caught up in minute details that take energy away from riding. Sleep or recovery ride Group Rides, DO A LOT OF THEM. Wait, what? https://youtu.be/4gi2Q-1psZ4

https://youtu.be/sijIbTuTB3s I've added this section to the bottom of a VO2Max Interval Post: https://www.evoq.bike/blog/2020/1/13/what-is-a-vo2max-workout-in-cycling  Struggling With VO2Max? Let's ask some questions and look at an athlete that had a similar problem.  Why can’t you go hard? Are you actually failing? Do you periodize the intensity within a VO2max block? Aka progression with this block? There are a variety of Vo2max workouts in this athlete's calendar; Why not do a FULL block of the same workout ? Is it easier to see improvement that way? Would you ever select the power off a dip or bump in the PD Curve? How much of a VO2Max effort is Anaerobic? Interval selection: micro VO2Max vs extended duration; MAP matters!  Email your question to Brendan@EVOQ.BIKE

What to do when it’s sweltering out.

Huge thanks Alex, this was awesome! Part 1 topics are below. Make sure you tell a friend about this interview with Alex, and see you later in the week for Part 2! Some of the topics include: Tour of Rwanda How does a team warm up without bikes. What would the days be like leading up to a stage race? The training is done weeks before the big race. How specific does Alex get before a race like Pro Nationals in Knoxville. The 6 hour banger! Stage Race training to one day racing. What’s his litmus to feel good before a race? How to deal with keeping tabs on everything going on when being a GC rider. Broad picture of training: what is most important? Favorite workouts from Coach Adam! Ooh let’s talk over unders! 8-10 minute threshold efforts with sprints https://youtu.be/yz7BVd52RfU

🚀

Good Q from previous podcast came in. Hopefully this clarifies it and doesn’t muddy the waters any more! Thanks for the note Joshua!

🚀

And what the heck is a PFA?

95%->102%->109%….and back down.