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Race sounds awesome, completely different to any British hill climb.
It will be a long TT effort, so I guess you’ll have to pace for a 1+ hour effort allowing for the reduction in power as you go higher?There were a few good Trainerroad podcasts relating to high altitude training and pacing races at higher altitude.
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I’ve never raced a hill climb in England, but will do my first of the season in Japan this coming Sunday (14th). It’ll be up in the mountains of Nagano (event is called the Tour De Yatsugatake).
25km and 1,300m of up, starting around 800m and finishing close to 2,100m - there will still be snow walls at the finish.
For numerous reasons I haven’t raced really since summer 2015, so I’m interested to know where my training since then will take me (not very far I suspect, given that most of the better competitors are well under 60kg).
Loads of inspiration derived from this thread - I’ll try not to make too much of a tit of myself.