Good hill workouts

[JasonHolder]

Is that all?

alright, not everyone has a fountain of youth in the backyard! Haha and i will be reducing even that mileage now

 

[screenman]

One that my DIL uses as a recent national champion, oops! Sorry I forgot I am not allowed to post replies to your posts.

 

[Rob3rt]

I don't understand what a "hill period" is.

 

[Hacienda71]

I don't understand what a "hill period" is.

It is a ladies thing Rob, best not to ask......

 

[KneesUp]

Personally a fan of riding a moderate 4-6min climb,
1repeat of (eg) 39-28
2nd repeat of 39-25
3rd repeat of 39-23 and so on- to failure.

Surely you should do this the other way around - just keep doing it in as high a gear as you can (which will be lower the more reps you do in a session)

 

[ColinJ]

How about riding something with a profile like this as hard as you like uphill, and just enjoying the downhills?

 

[jarlrmai]

That's a nice warm up at the start there.

 

[JasonHolder]

I don't understand what a "hill period" is.

Its where I ride 50miles to search out the closest hills to train specifically on them for a 4 week period.

Surely you should do this the other way around - just keep doing it in as high a gear as you can (which will be lower the more reps you do in a session)

Theoretically correct there kneesup if I wasn't doing 4 weeks here, I'd be doing that for the most time under tension in a workout- however its easier to remember what you were spinning on the 3rd Rep by doing it this way. Much more progressive. Not to mention less painful.

 

[Rob3rt]

Seems all rather binary to me...

 

[50000tears]

One approach I like is to train on mid length hills that take 4 mins+ to climb with a 6-8% gradient. Warm up first, then start hill in your normal cruising speed, around 80% max effort. Then at a fixed point, lamppost or drain or change of road surface, knock it up a gear and sprint to another fixed point. Then change back to your spinning gear and cruise the finish.

If hill is long enough you can do a couple of efforts like this per climb. If too short then you can spin until 1 min from finish then attack til over the crest.

With steeper hills I tend to just get up them as fast as I can. I experiment with trying steady efforts, starting hardish and trying to hold it as long as possible or starting easy and trying to speed up near the top. This is more to find the best way to climb a given hill as much as traning though.

 

[ColinJ]

That's a nice warm up at the start there.

Indeed ... That's the Keighley Road out of Hebden Bridge and I only get 300 metres of riding in before I hit it!

It's nice coming home that way though. That's the profile of my forum ride from yesterday and I bombed back into town with @Kestevan on the 7 km descent.

(If I were serious about going up that hill quickly, I would warm up on my gym bike before setting off.)

 

[JasonHolder]

One approach I like is to train on mid length hills that take 4 mins+ to climb with a 6-8% gradient. Warm up first, then start hill in your normal cruising speed, around 80% max effort. Then at a fixed point, lamppost or drain or change of road surface, knock it up a gear and sprint to another fixed point. Then change back to your spinning gear and cruise the finish.

If hill is long enough you can do a couple of efforts like this per climb. If too short then you can spin until 1 min from finish then attack til over the crest.

With steeper hills I tend to just get up them as fast as I can. I experiment with trying steady efforts, starting hardish and trying to hold it as long as possible or starting easy and trying to speed up near the top. This is more to find the best way to climb a given hill as much as traning though.

Superb effort! Hill fartlek sounds good. Cheers for that!

Yeah as youve seen I've been playing around alot finding out what's the fastest way to the top of steep things and back down lol!

 

[Cold]

Its where I ride 50miles to search out the closest hills to train specifically on them for a 4 week period.


Theoretically correct there kneesup if I wasn't doing 4 weeks here, I'd be doing that for the most time under tension in a workout- however its easier to remember what you were spinning on the 3rd Rep by doing it this way. Much more progressive. Not to mention less painful.

As your in Gloucester why don't you just go up and down Portway or Birdlip hill.

 

[JasonHolder]

As your in Gloucester why don't you just go up and down Portway or Birdlip hill.

Went up birdlip Friday after my challenge duel up painswick here with smashing a cocky little SOB on strava... Now which hill is port way?
Cheers

Ps-50mile round trip to bird lip/painswick

 

[MikeG]

...............smashing a cocky little SOB on strava... .

You do understand the word "irony", do you?