Hill Climbs

Yeah I see as a handy one to keep in the diary to keep me motivated if Nationals proves beyond me

Cheap + Light, rare combo.

This just links me to the CRC homepage

Odd, works for me. Zipp VukaBull TT.

Thanks for sharing!

Early season Hill Climb next week in Reading

4.44 KOM

Tempted but might be a bit short notice for me

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So after a while of base building aka riding as much as I can cause work is really quiet started to add a little structured vo2 sessions in recently.

Enjoying so far but still fairly easy sessions.

After a bit of a mix up and my ride not happening as planned today I ended up giving one of the side roads that run up Steyning Bostal a dig (not the one the hc is on but one that’s not got the flat section in the middle) set a PR for the climb and power for the duration of the climb and bumped up my already frankly unrealistic modelled FTP in intervals.icu

Obviously a very long way out yet, and need to get nearer racing weight gradually but pleased so far!

Woopah. So good to have a bit of real world feedback on these things.

I’m not feeling super strong but a weekend in Yorkshire and good efforts on some famous climbs felt great. Gonna have a pop at a KOM in Kent tomorrow, see how that works out 🤪

Oooh which one?

@Kelvin saw you’ve been doing quite a mix of stuff. Good work!

Best of luck! What sort of duration is the segment currently?

This, 3:10. Pretty lit already though so we’ll see how that goes 🍻

Cool. I’m in reasonable shape but I’ve not done any all out efforts since HC season.
Plenty of climbing but more due to distances being covered.
Really not sure if I’ll race in September, last year was very frustrating!

Miles off any KOMs (or PBS tbh) but three solid vo2 max efforts and some top fives so all good.

Always good to get the time in zone banked even if the segments don't quite come off, We've got some good segments which are hill repeats i.e. 10 ascents with 9 descents which I can kid myself if I target are good training even if I don't improve my time

Early season Reading-ish Club Hill Climb mentioned in "the FB HC group"

Reading CC will be running a club event on Britwell Hill, Tuesday 3rd August at 19:00 https://cyclinguphill.com/britwell-hill/

No entry form as yet

Please do keep posting stuff like this! I’m not on FB, the HC group is the only thing I’m missing.

On club events, my mates who run a sandwich shop are concocting a HC on Swains Lane soon, their delivery riders vs those of two or three other shops. I’ve been temporarily employed by them as a ringer 😉

Doing in on delivery bikes?

Maybe, not sure yet. I defo won’t be taking the 4.9kg Cannondale - look like a right fanny.

Cargo bikes or gtfo

So am I the only saddo who's started a spreadsheet with events in?

I’m still pretty unsure if I’ll race atm.
Holiday with family mid august then my wife plans to go to Canada and I’m hopefully in Italy Mid-September. Doesn’t bode well…

Natch. I wish CTT would let you save or favourite events before entering them.

yeah that's an annoying omission, it'd be great to fav courses and be able to get reminders if and when an event appears.

I also can't work out why the listed club events don't use the same template as well!