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b'Long-time friends, training partners, and competitors, Jonathan Vaughters and Colby Pearce have a deep racing history and relationship. With decades of experience in pro cycling, they have gained many insights about training, coaching, and the trajectory of the sport.\\xa0\\nColby and JV first discuss their early training techniques, taught to them by their first cycling coach, Adrie Van Diemen, a Dutch exercise physiologist now with UAE Team Emirates. Many of the techniques are now considered to be standard practice. The pair reminisce about how they were ahead of their time, in many ways, even though they didn\\u2019t realize it.\\nVaughters, who has coached many pro cyclists over the years, then gives examples of experiments gone right\\u2014and wrong\\u2014and how certain training regimens should be applied to certain types of athletes. He also openly discusses the conflict of interest in coaching athletes while also serving as their team manager.\\xa0\\nThe discussion then turns to the finer details of cycling technique, including a detailed explanation of how crank length affects a rider\\u2019s ability to climb, sprint, and win. JV even describes the time he swapped cranks behind the back of his former team manager, Johan Bruyneel.\\xa0\\nNext, the conversation turns to Rigoberto Ur\\xe1n, who finished second in the 2017 Tour de France. The Colombian\\u2019s diet at that year\\u2019s race included bananas and\\u2026 bananas. Vaughters uses that example to illustrate how the natural and simple solution oftentimes bests all of the \\u201cadvanced\\u201d nutrition expertise in the world\\u2014and how athletes often discover what works best for them and \\u201csolve their own equation.\\u201d\\nThat, and much more, in today\\u2019s episode of \\u201cCycling in Alignment.\\u201d\\n\\nREFERENCES\\nBook: \\u201cOne-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels\\u201d https://www.amazon.com/One-Way-Ticket-Nine-Lives-Wheels/dp/0143134140\\nCoach Adrie Van Diemen http://www.webtrainer.com/nl/\\nColby\\u2019s Site: http://www.colbypearce.com/\\nEmail: CyclingInAlignment@FastLabs.com\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cyclinginalignment/\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/CyclinginAlign_\\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/cyclinginalignment-110271017351743\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'