#97 Local Race Analysis, Riding and Racing Safely, Community Skill Building etc with Shaurya & Joel!

<p>In this episode, I have two guests, Joel Sundaram and Shaurya Kaushal. Two young and strong cyclists who started an Youtube channel called FromThePeloton where they are analyzing club races in India. &nbsp;I really love the work they are doing on that channel. I think content like that helps in educating and improving the awareness of the cycling and racing community. You should check it out and subscribe to the channel.</p> <p>In this episode we talk about racing culture in India, what are the things we can do to make racing safe in our club races, what are the things we can do outside of racing as a community to improve the safety of racing. Although the main focus was on safety aspect of it this was a free flowing conversation that touched on various aspects of cycling in India and how we can take it to the next level.</p> <p>0:00:00 &nbsp;Intro</p> <p>0:02:50 &nbsp;How the idea for FromThePeloton Channel took shape</p> <p>0:15:35 &nbsp;Learnings from races and their analysis, signaling hazards, respect for fellow riders, taking responsibility of safety of the entire group</p> <p>0:21:55 &nbsp;Race strategies and willing to change them, making mistakes and learning from them, having criteria to join races, organizing group rides to improve skills</p> <p>0:30:55 &nbsp;Increasing the safety of races, group ride etiquette and skill improvement, signaling every move, riding predictably, holding your line, looking where you want to go</p> <p>0:39:30 &nbsp;Correcting fellow riders, communicating with respect, keeping tempers from flaring up in the peloton, racing with music not focusing,</p> <p>0:52:20 &nbsp;Sticking to the left lane in races, educating our support crew to provide support properly, taking footage safely, importance of talking to</p> <p>1:00:55 &nbsp;Open road racing is different from the way pros are racing, having group rides with skill building, race simulations</p> <p>1:06:20 &nbsp;Closing remarks!</p> <p>Link to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/FromThePeloton"><u>FromThePeloton</u></a>:</p>