Fast Talk, ep. 62: Listener questions on short rides, diet, vegetable oils, and training sub-threshold

We've been receiving so many good questions from our listeners, it was time to devote an entire episode to answering them.

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We’ve been getting a ton of questions from listeners, and many of them have had similar themes. (We appreciate the feedback, look forward to your questions, and generate many future podcast topics from them, so please keep them coming.)

While you’re waiting for future episodes with deeper answers, we’d like to give you some short answers now to tide you over. Today we’ll answer questions about diet, the value of short easy rides, sub-threshold work in a polarized training model, and inflammation.

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