Let’s have a little fun hopefully. I just finished up race season and am ready to tackle my second goal for the year. I want to go sub six minutes on a semi-local climb. I can’t train on it because it’s a two hour ride away or I have to drive somewhere near it and start from there. My last two tim…

There’s been threads on similar subjects before. I forget what they say but they may be of help, this is one of them: [image] Advice on training for 8 minute hill climb Training Hi everybody. I’m a long-term TR user looking to improve my performance on a popular local cl…

To contraditct the requirements of the climb - volume and z2. My best 5min power (6,2 W/kg) was combination of increased volume + 2x threshold weekly, building tte and then hitting it with vo2 max block. I was flying on the bike and even without Vo2 max work my 5min power was up by 30W, vo2 max bloc…

To be honest I’m amazed you can do 379W for 6 minutes with an FTP of 270W. That’s 140% of FTP! If your FTP is accurate I’d think you’ve pretty much already maxed out your 6 minute effort and need to go back to building a bigger base to give a foundation for further increases. I’d be more inclined i…

I love this and to me is what makes sports fun! Just a few thoughts from a track & field coach… With such a short window (3 weeks) I would go with anaerobic work. 30 seconds to 1 min, very hard efforts (400+ w). However if you have not done this you can be very sore and risk hurting your performa…

[image] jarsson: To contraditct the requirements of the climb - volume and z2. Agreed. This is the approach I’ve taken this year and I recently PR’d a ~6min climb that I have 300+ recorded efforts on over the last 15 years… and I just turned 50. However, not sure if 3 weeks is long enough to …

[image] jonnyknight: a strong domestique to lead you out would also help. Good luck! Curious if this is “do whatever you can for a sub 6” or is this “man vs. mountain?” If the later I would say gotta do this solo.

I would just do this one workout once per week for 3 weeks, then go do the climb. 2min at 450w x 2-5 reps with 10min recovery in-between each. Just do normal riding the rest of the week and you’ll be golden

Lots of good advice here. Thank you! And thank you for that other thread - I was trying various searches looking for something like that but just couldn’t find something similar. I’ll add some more info - this is definitely a solo ride. A domestique would certainly help but I wouldn’t feel good aft…

To add to what Jolyzara said, I’m also a track coach. All the best 1500m/mile running times are run with the first and last 1/4 a bit faster (and similar to each other) with the 2nd and 3rd a bit slower (and also similar to each other). For a world class runner, this could be something like 55-57-57…

bear in mind this is a one off effort, so in training, you are not concerned with repeatability. so take lots of rest in between efforts. you need to produce power, with lots of fast twitch recruitment, therefore lactate and acidity. in training, drip feed sugar because you never want to compromise …

Training for a six-minute climb

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Training for a six-minute climb

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