Cycling skills Accelerate on Hills

12 Apr

Cycling skills, accelerate on hills

Let’s have a closer look at hill acceleration. Often, just before the summit of a climb, is the hardest part of the climb.

Riders will see the summit and they’ll accelerate over the last 200 meters stretching out the peloton and dropping the weaker ones.

We need to practice this in training so it doesn’t happen to us.  What you need to do is find a hill of about 2 minutes in length.

Give yourself 2 minutes at a sustainable fast pace you can hold all the way to the top.  When you get about 400 meters to 200 meters, slowly starts to accelerate and pick up your speed.

Till the last bit, you are accelerating as fast as you can go all the way to the top of the summit to where you start descending.

Give yourself 5 to 8 minutes recovery between hill accelerations and you can repeat these intervals 4 to 6 times in order to get the right amount of working.

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