THE SHORT ANSWER
Ed Clancy, olympic gold medallist, team pursuit, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Clancy lands on time trialling. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS ED CLANCY?
Ed Clancy holds three Olympic team-pursuit gold medals — Beijing, London, and Rio — and is the most successful team-pursuit rider in the discipline's history. He was the start-man on the British squad that turned a four-minute event into a sub-3:50 standard. His specialism — the thirty-second standing start that sets the team's pace — is the ultimate expression of trained anaerobic power, neuromuscular drive, and pressure management. For Roadman's audience he is the bridge between road cycling fitness and the explosive end of the sport that most amateurs never train.
CLANCY ON TIME TRIALLING
Clancy’s key positions on time trialling.
- Team pursuit teaches what amateurs never learn — pacing in a four-rider rotation under threshold-plus, where the wheel in front is the only thing that matters.
- Track training transfers to road power — the threshold and VO2max work done at velodrome intensity translates directly to time-trial and climbing performance.
IN CLANCY’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Ed Clancy’s appearances on the podcast.
“He literally sat us down around the table and got us to write down our team values. So, it's like turn up on time. Uh, dress appropriately, be respectful to the staff, make sure the house is clean before you go to bed. And, you know, he made us write our own uh punishments is probably the right word.”
“In my opinion every high performing team will have some sort of system or mechanism for welcoming the truth and um yeah I think Rod always believed that really strongly.”
“I've met some like unbelievably high performance cyclists that don't even know which is the front brake and the back brake they're just like I just pull them together and I'm like I I don't believe it.”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Ed Clancy covers time trialling and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Ed Clancy say about time trialling?
Ed Clancy, olympic gold medallist, team pursuit, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Clancy lands on time trialling. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Clancy's main point on time trialling?
Team pursuit teaches what amateurs never learn — pacing in a four-rider rotation under threshold-plus, where the wheel in front is the only thing that matters.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Ed Clancy on time trialling?
Clancy discusses time trialling in this episode: "Ed Clancy on How GB Cycling Built Its Olympic Dynasty".
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