Comments on: Hill Climb Training

By: mum

mum — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:01:38 +0000

You only need to lose weight when you are as heavy as dad!!!!!!!

By: tejvan

tejvan — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:50:06 +0000

I think Paul Curran of Manchester wheelers

By: tejvan

tejvan — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:49:48 +0000

To have a go, look out for local ‘club’ events. You can usually enter these on day.
Open events need to be entered 10 days in advance with CTT form.

http://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/Events/EventsList/tabid/134/Default.aspx

You can filter

Have a look through CTT events
http://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/Default.aspx?&gv514__gvac=2&tabid=134&gv514__gvff1=201209&gv514__gvfl1=7

By: Cycle Samuel

Cycle Samuel — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:37:40 +0000

I have a few good hills in the Chilterns and also have to do them multiple times. Have you been up Hard Knock pass in Cumbria, its quite a climb?

When I have been in France, there is nothing quite like the Col’s in the Alps to get the body going.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:05:04 +0000

Where is that b&w picture from, it’s hilarious!

By: sm

sm — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:19:16 +0000

Great article. Will be interesting to hear how you get on with the intervals. Might give them a crack myself. My hill training is 5 reps of Swains Lane (or Swine’s Lane as I now call it). 2.5 mins up, 4mins recovery. It’s pretty intense with a short recovery and I can’t do this more than once a week as I find my legs take a long time to recover.

The hardest part of hill training is going back every week as mentally you’re still scarred with the pain from the last attempt. An hour of pain and pushing yourself to the verge of being sick is not a welcome prospect. As some wise man once said, it never gets easier, you just get faster.

I have toyed with the idea of doing hills with extra weight in panniers but I’m not sure this will improve my mental well-being, let alone my overall fitness.