Hello,
I like cycling as a relaxed activity, being in the nature,riding through some beautiful landscape in your own pace, but boy those hills, I never liked them ,and
with age even less.
I ride bike not very often, mabe every year some very slow, family pace rides about 10 - 15 kmh in flat for maybe 15-20 km few times a year.
Few times every year I also ride uphill a local hill, about 200m uphil, few km long, about 5 - 6 % average . I don t have some mountain or road bike, just some ordinary "trekking" bike , Author Stratos, it has Shimano Alivo gear, I think 21 gears for example, about 14 kg? I have 80 kg, 50 years and yesterday
for the first time on bike this year I tried this hill and feeling miserably as before:
goal is just to survive and reach the top without stopping, even when I have it in the easiest gear it is a strugle, heart pulse very high, almos 90%, , legs hurting.
I checked on Strava this climb and my results:
it is 2,1 km long, 130m uphill, 6.1%, asphalt(kategory 4) and I needed for it 14:40 minutes, just 8,8 kmh average. I see there are tens of local riders needing 5 min to 5:30 min on this climb. So I am about 280 % worse .
The funny thing is that in last 5 years I am quite active in sport, especially in nordic walking, I can walk 21km in 2hours 30, 10 km in 1 hour7 minutes (15% behind european champion),I placed top 10 in 13km-600m uphil race. I walked at severac races, international and even won some local ones (ok the competion is much weaker than in cycling), and am quite competitive.From walking I am used to racing at 90% and more heart rate, endurance, feeling tired but this feeling on the bike uphil is much worse, helpless. I estimate I could nordic walk this same hill in 17-20 minutes.
Does anybody have any tips, how did they Improve their uphill performance , how much better it was then ? I doubt I will ever enjoy uphill on bike, but maybe it would help me in my main sport.
I like cycling as a relaxed activity, being in the nature,riding through some beautiful landscape in your own pace, but boy those hills, I never liked them ,and
with age even less.
I ride bike not very often, mabe every year some very slow, family pace rides about 10 - 15 kmh in flat for maybe 15-20 km few times a year.
Few times every year I also ride uphill a local hill, about 200m uphil, few km long, about 5 - 6 % average . I don t have some mountain or road bike, just some ordinary "trekking" bike , Author Stratos, it has Shimano Alivo gear, I think 21 gears for example, about 14 kg? I have 80 kg, 50 years and yesterday
for the first time on bike this year I tried this hill and feeling miserably as before:
goal is just to survive and reach the top without stopping, even when I have it in the easiest gear it is a strugle, heart pulse very high, almos 90%, , legs hurting.
I checked on Strava this climb and my results:
it is 2,1 km long, 130m uphill, 6.1%, asphalt(kategory 4) and I needed for it 14:40 minutes, just 8,8 kmh average. I see there are tens of local riders needing 5 min to 5:30 min on this climb. So I am about 280 % worse .
The funny thing is that in last 5 years I am quite active in sport, especially in nordic walking, I can walk 21km in 2hours 30, 10 km in 1 hour7 minutes (15% behind european champion),I placed top 10 in 13km-600m uphil race. I walked at severac races, international and even won some local ones (ok the competion is much weaker than in cycling), and am quite competitive.From walking I am used to racing at 90% and more heart rate, endurance, feeling tired but this feeling on the bike uphil is much worse, helpless. I estimate I could nordic walk this same hill in 17-20 minutes.
Does anybody have any tips, how did they Improve their uphill performance , how much better it was then ? I doubt I will ever enjoy uphill on bike, but maybe it would help me in my main sport.