How to Get Faster on the Bike - Part 3, The Climbing Episode w/ Nat’l Champion Jill Patterson

Topics Covered In This Episode:

• Top 5 factors for faster climbing: pacing, increasing power to weight ratio, wise equipment choices, course intel, personal intel
• How to use Strava as a pacing and KOM/QOM planning tool
• Using RPE to gauge pacing and sustainability
• Are you a Steady or Punchy climber?
• Pacing for climbs you have never climbed before
• Keeping your mind in the game on difficult climbs
• Safe and effective ways to target power-to-weight ratio
• Best hill climbing workouts for novice riders
• Best hill climbing workouts for advanced riders

Guest Bio:
Jill started road biking when she was living in Japan as an English teacher. After doing well in local races she was recruited by a  women’s team, Asahi Muur Zero (now disbanded). She rode with them for three years and did several international UCI stage races in China, Thailand, and the US (Joe Martin Stage Race and Tour of the Gila, 2016).  After returning to the US at the end of 2016 she followed a more structured training program and experienced big increases in my endurance, power and fitness.  I prefer long and hilly gran fondo and road race courses, and in 2021 also started riding gravel. Jill is coached by CTS Coach Adam Pulford and won the 2022 USA Cycling Gran Fondo National Championship.

Show Links

• Jill Patterson on Instagram
• jillpattersoncycling.com
• Power to Weight Ratio for Cyclists: How to calculate, take advantage of, and increase it.
• How to Increase VO2 max Power and Duration for Cyclists
• Three Best Climbing Workouts for Sustained Power, Surge Strength, and Winning Attacks
• Cycling Tips to Ride Uphill Faster

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