Cycling in Alignment with Colby Pearce

Relationship to the Sun - Ep 204

What is your relationship to the sun? 
 
Are you heliophobic? Have you been told that the sun is an evil celestial orb that will give you disease? 

For me, the sun is a source of life, health, rhythm and balance. To hear more of my thoughts on this topic, check out this episode. 

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How to Train with a Power Meter - Ep203

In this episode I unpack the upside and shadow side of three different ways to use a power meter. 

As a pacing tool

As a motivator

To look at retrospective or futurespective data 

I feel these perspectives are important as I think many riders in the sport are mis-using this technology. 
 
If you listen to my podcast, you will know it is filled with unpopular opinions and alternative perspectives. Not for the sake of controversy or exhibitionism, but simply to think critically and speak with an honest opinion.

Assassination of the Perfectionistic Mindset - Ep 202

This is a walking podcast in which I talk about the perfectionistic mindset and make a case to meditate on death.

It is perhaps a heavy topic but I endeavor to make the case that when we approach sport as though there is a permanent record of every race we win or get dropped at, and we see this CV as something that will be read at our funeral as a meter of our worth as a human, it robs the sport of joy and misses the point of competition entirely.

Sport is about the experience of getting better. It is the entire reason we sign up for a bike race.

I did not talk about this in the podcast but the entire plot of Tron Legacy is about this exact topic: assassination of the perfectionistic mindset. Thus, you get a shot of Clu, whose mission is to “create the perfect system” in the movie.

My hope is that your takeaway will be to see where and how you are trying to create the perfect system and understand the truth: everything is wabi-sabi or “perfectly imperfect”.

John Rutherford: Being Forced to Nail Down the Craft - Ep 201

Episode number two hundred and one is a discussion with John Rutherford, who grew up bike racing, is now an ultra runner, has served as Foreign Service Officer for the US Department of State, and has flown F/A-18s when he served as a member of the Marine Corps. As such he has a solid understanding of how to negotiate extreme environments in the field of play, and where it counts a bit more. 

In our discussion we cover topics including exploring extremes, how ultra events force you to nail down your craft and inevitably reveal challenges, and the normalization of puking that used to be standard in events of 20+ hours. 

I hope you find our conversation illuminating in your life adventures.

Posture and Bears - Ep200

In this walking podcast, #200! I discuss an alternate way to quantify training load. Or not really to quantify it, but to help dictate what proper training load is for a given athlete on a given day. It flies directly in the face of the way every other coach and program tells you to train. So be prepared to be like “wow this is weird”

In other words, SOP for this podcast. 
 
Also, bears. Bears Ron. Now you are putting the whole station at risk.