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| Hi, I'm Coach Steve! What
qualifies me to be a cycling coach? I've spent a lot of time
on a bike (>250,000 miles) beginning in 1973 as a young bike racer: — Seventeen seasons bike racing competing as cat 1 in at least 1000 events, including several years traveling with US National Team to international events. — Seven seasons racing duathlon, qualifying for Team USA every year. — Thirteen seasons racing triathlon, qualifying for Team USA every year. As a young rider I remember analyzing photos of the pros: assessing overall body position on the bike, measuring angles, comparing extension of arms and legs of different riders in various events. After evaluating hundreds of athletes' positions, it became clear only a narrow range of proportions work best to optimize the balance between power output and comfort. After 35 years I have an eye for it! I've been my own test subject: road positions, mountain bike, minimizing drag for time-trial positions, new equipment, as well as testing various training regimes for more than 30-years. I'm the type of person who always asks why, and in turn I'm the type of coach that's effective explaining why it works in simple terms. I use all the positioning and training techniques that I recommend to athletes, and I still post the fastest bike split at most of my multisport races [even at my advanced age]! The correlation between athletic success and coaching seems logical, but the ability to see from an athlete's perspective and convey the experience to is far from universal. Sometimes you can find both in a coach who's able to keep all the information in perspective. Training theory in a lab setting is great, but I've actually done it all on the bike over the last 30+ years. “War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.” - Life on the Mississippi, 1883 Mark Twain |
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