Monday 22 November 2010

Climbers

Ok, being light doesn't make you a great climber, it just gives you an advantage over most people. Typical climbers (skinny runts!)feel the need to smash it up every hill they hit (i used to be one!) they just can't hold them selfs back, It's one thing doing it in training, but in races climbers tend to forget they can use climbs to recover on, being 60kgs wet through they have a distinct advantage over most people. It would be far better waiting in the wheels on the climbs and saving it for one or two big attacks, rather than spread your effort over all the climbs then have nothing left for when it matters. Also remember you need a big engine for the flat as well, because it won't matter how light you are, if you hit the bottom of the climb having ridden way above yourself, you're going to climb like normal people!, so as well as training in the hills make sure you build your power up for the flat, climbers tend to think it's all about training up hill, but they might actually go up hill faster by doing some power work on the flat .