THE SHORT ANSWER
Ben Healy, professional cyclist, ef education–easypost; 2025 tour de france stage winner; 2025 uci road world championships bronze medallist, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Healy lands on threshold training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS BEN HEALY?
Ben Healy is the Irish EF Education–EasyPost rider who became the first Irishman in the yellow jersey since Stephen Roche in 1987 after his stage 6 win at the 2025 Tour de France. He represents a generation of riders who blend long-range attacking with one-day Classics aptitude — and his rise has reshaped how the next wave of Irish riders think about turning pro through a domestic and continental development pathway rather than waiting on a national-team conveyor belt.
HEALY ON THRESHOLD TRAINING
Healy’s key positions on threshold training.
- Mental approach to long breakaways: commit early, ride your own threshold, ignore the gap until 10km to go.
IN HEALY’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Ben Healy’s appearances on the podcast.
“I got to the back on the descent and everyone let you do that then you know cuz he's not going to attack on the descent. It's super easy to follow but like we knew what was coming and I just hit that found that moment perfectly came with a bit of speed. They hesitate and bam I'm gone.”
“I was like racing not really very smartly kind of the way that I'd always raced but gotten away with because no one knew who I was and now people knew who I were and I couldn't I needed to to go back to the drawing board and and and rethink out how I'd race.”
“I whack the climb as well and the gap goes out and then that just like completely destroys the morale of people. So that's kind of the thing that I'm aiming to do.”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Ben Healy covers threshold training and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Ben Healy say about threshold training?
Ben Healy, professional cyclist, ef education–easypost; 2025 tour de france stage winner; 2025 uci road world championships bronze medallist, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Healy lands on threshold training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Healy's main point on threshold training?
Mental approach to long breakaways: commit early, ride your own threshold, ignore the gap until 10km to go.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Ben Healy on threshold training?
Healy discusses threshold training in this episode: "Ben Healy on Tour Stage Wins and Cycling Tactics | Roadman".
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