I f*cking hate indoor interval training!

you'll be rotund afterwards

What kind of turbo work would be good for UK hill climbs? How do you train for 2:30 of lowish cadence out of the saddle sprinting up hills?

Learn to spin seated up hills?

Ride up hills. Or just do race length intervals with 2x the recovery.

Turbo is actually quite good for this, as it has much less inertia than you have on a normal flat road (which is why it feels so different) but this is much closer to the inertia involved in riding up hills.

So do lots of 1-5 min intervals.

But also go ride up lots of hills :)

Seated spinning don't win no HCs.

Pacing does though. Dunno if you're on fixed, but I find seated spinning on the generally less steep lower slopes of hills forces you to save yourself for when you have to stand up and cane yourself on the steep bits, which is where the races are won.

Boardman said he always used to win HCs in the second half of the climb.

Never start like a nutter – Boardman often won championships where he was slower at the half way point. Only in the last half would he really go into the red. It takes a lot of discipline to hold back until the right moment and then really go for it.

http://cyclinguphill.com/chris-boardman-hill-climbs/

@dbr you (and everyone) should buy and read A Corinthian-Endeavour

Nice - that's my style actually. When you do the compare riders play-back thing on strava I'm always behind my competitors on the first half of the climb. Defending Lea Valley CC Mott St title this year... I suspect I'll have to work very hard to keep it.

Bought! Thanks for the tip off.