Summits, brows, peaks

Did some more turbo training last night. This time I tried to practice getting to the top of a hill then carrying speed over the top.

I often have a tendancy to get to the top of a hill and reward myself a 10 second rest in the form of easy pedalling before I start going fast down the other side (or on the flat). In races you need to keep the same effort going when you reach the top of the hill so that you don't get dropped by stronger riders. It's a killer actually.

Last night I did a session that had two minutes easy, 1 minute hard (changing to a harder gear every 15 seconds), 1 minute easy setting, hardest gear sprinting, 1 minute easy setting hardest gear normal pedalling, 2 minutes easy etc...

I did an hour and felt ok. Though as I was doing each hill followed by a sprint I had to really imagine myself overtaking people to keep my legs going at a fair pace!