THE SHORT ANSWER
Laurens Ten Dam, professional cyclist, gc rider turned gravel racer, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Dam lands on training as a masters cyclist. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS LAURENS TEN DAM?
Laurens Ten Dam is one of the more articulate Dutch riders of his generation — a Tour de France GC top-10 finisher with Belkin and CCC, and now a serious gravel privateer who has finished Unbound, raced the Migration Gravel Race, and built one of the most-watched amateur gravel YouTube channels. His Live Slow Ride Fast podcast, co-hosted with Stefan Bolt, is one of the longest-running cycling podcasts in Europe. For amateurs interested in the transition from road racing to gravel and ultra-endurance — and the realities of training as a near-50 ex-pro — his content is exceptional.
DAM ON MASTERS TRAINING
Dam’s key positions on training as a masters cyclist.
- Post-pro masters racing requires more recovery and more strength work than the pro version, not less.
IN DAM’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Laurens Ten Dam’s appearances on the podcast.
“I was doubting about my lamps for like maybe two months and then the second day I lost my lamp and I did it on the pen light I bought at the dollar shop. I was doubting about which gloves I should bring and then I bought I lost also lost my gloves on day two and I bought some gloves at the gas station and they were also doing the job.”
“I found like on my phone I found like one little piece of network and I remember I found St on my co-host on the podcast and I was laying there in a ditch phoning him like with my phone high for that one little piece of network and my youngest kid he never he never text me it's still the last three text I got from him but he text the text he sent to me was I miss you that's the only three words he sent me in three different text he's nine years old.”
“I think we got six million views in two weeks so that's like crazy and then people people really enjoyed it for the first five days but 14 days is long man. Some people when I came home they were like never do that again you know like because we don't want to watch you suffer that much as what you did.”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Laurens Ten Dam covers training as a masters cyclist and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Laurens Ten Dam say about training as a masters cyclist?
Laurens Ten Dam, professional cyclist, gc rider turned gravel racer, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Dam lands on training as a masters cyclist. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Dam's main point on masters training?
Post-pro masters racing requires more recovery and more strength work than the pro version, not less.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Laurens Ten Dam on masters training?
Dam discusses training as a masters cyclist in this episode: "Riding The World's Most Beautiful Race | Laurens Ten Dam".