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Benjamin Sharp

Benjamin "Ben" Sharp is an Olympic gold-medal cycling coach, former USA Cycling national team coach, power education specialist at Stages Cycling, and co-owner of Sharp Coaching in Boulder, Colorado.

Oct 8, 2026

67:23
Mm-hmm.
67:23
We've been talking about the Zwift Racing League, and it kinda winds up in February, and there've been a couple years where the last week of racing for Zwift Racing League coincided with the beginning of sort of our outdoor season, and I typically go to Arizona for a few weeks in February to do some of the stage races like Valley of the Sun and Tucson Bike Classic.
67:47
And to make sure [laughs] that I didn't miss the last race of our ZRL season, I have actually set up my indoor system outdoors.
67:58
[laughs] I have a van that I'm able to travel in, and I have pretty good Wi-Fi with the van, and so I have literally set the trainer and my bike outside the van with a little table and a tablet.
72:41
[laughs]
72:42
Yeah, I think that's fair.
72:44
I would say historically, as a former elite racer, I thought of the indoor riding and indoor training as a necessary evil, to the point where I just would disregard it completely.
72:56
I was racing as an elite in the Midwest 25 years ago, and I went several years never riding indoors and just packing on more and more clothing.

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