{"id":5022,"date":"2014-11-19T02:33:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T02:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankpunk.com\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2014-11-19T02:35:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T02:35:03","slug":"crank-punk-coaching-systems-barry-davies-testimonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankpunk.com\/ja\/2014\/11\/19\/crank-punk-coaching-systems-barry-davies-testimonial\/","title":{"rendered":"Crank Punk Coaching Systems: Barry Davies Testimonial"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve been working with Barry for four months. His aim all along was ‘to get up the Taiwan KOM hill.’ Added to that challenge was the fact that Barry, originally from the UK, lives in Singapore, one of the flattest stretches of land around out here. <\/em><\/div>\n
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Here follows his testimonial of the past 4 months working with me through my Crank Punk Coaching Systems program.<\/em><\/div>\n

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“How\u00a0I\u00a0Learned to\u00a0Stop Worrying and Love the KOM”<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Barry Davies<\/em><\/div>\n
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November 15, 2014<\/em><\/div>\n
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no one’s quite sure how Bary stayed so clean-looking nor indeed how he actually managed a smile during the recent KOM, but crankpunk’s name has been mentioned in reverent whispers…<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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I was way out of my depth training in hot and flat Singapore for a cold 105km uphill bike race that ends at 3,275m elevation (the Taiwan KOM Challenge 2014). I knew that I would need some expert help and so I contacted Lee Rogers who had coached some of my buddies to success,\u00a0and better yet,\u00a0Lee\u00a0had raced this thing before and practically lived beside the course. Luckily Lee took on the challenge of getting my heavy slow body up a big mountain in only four months time.<\/div>\n
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Jens Voigt’s motto may be ‘shut up legs’, but Lee’s is ‘listen to your legs’. I used to ride with my eyes glued to my garmin, taking in all the wonderful nerdy data on heart rate and watts.\u00a0 So when Lee said to not look at my garmin for a while and learn to ride by feel, I was lost, it was like trying to use ‘the force’ at first. I gradually calibrated my level of effort and got good at listening to my body, knowing my limits and sometimes pushing past them. Lee tuned my time-limited weekly training to suit both my ever-changing travel schedule and my motivation to keep me on that fine edge of highly trained but not overcooked.<\/div>\n
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With Lee’s guidance I worked my butt off, literally. Over the months of consistent riding and a mix of hard and long efforts my watts went up and my weight dropped, a great combination for getting up a mountain faster.<\/div>\n
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When the Taiwan KOM Challenge race day finally arrived the weather was cold and rainy, the GPS didn’t synch up and I couldn’t rely as much on my garmin data, but\u00a0I didn’t panic, I just used the force like Lee taught me, listened to my body and cranked out what I knew was the appropriate maximal effort that I could sustain to get to the finish line without blowing up. The many repeats up Singapore’s little hills of faber and vigilante drive were great preparation both physically and mentally. Crossing that finish line was an amazing feeling and an achievement I wasn’t sure I was capable of when I signed up for the race.<\/div>\n
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Thanks Lee for all your support, encouragement and for helping me learn to tune my engine to get the most out of my very\u00a0average abilities.<\/div>\n
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(‘Average’ indeed! Well done Bazza! cp.)<\/em><\/div>\n
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I’ve been working with Barry for four months. His aim all along was ‘to get up the Taiwan KOM hill.’ Added to that challenge was the fact that Barry, originally from the UK, lives in Singapore, one of the flattest stretches of land around out here. Here follows his testimonial of the past 4 months working with me through my Crank Punk Coaching Systems program.   _____________________________________ “How\u00a0I\u00a0Learned to\u00a0Stop Worrying and Love the KOM” \u00a0. Barry Davies . November 15, 2014 \u00a0. . I was way out of my depth training in hot and flat Singapore for a cold 105km uphill bike race that ends at 3,275m elevation (the Taiwan 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