Q /A My threshold has improved, and I’ve focused my training on hills, especially longer, 10-minute hills; but 30 minutes into a hard race, I start running out of legs. I can’t keep up with the repeated high-intensity efforts, and end up being dropped on climbs. Has everyone else improved more than me, or am I doing something wrong in training?
It seems, with your long hill repeats, that your ‘intensity’ training has been too heavily skewed at threshold output, leading to a detrained anaerobic engine. Racing is characterised by a high volume of repeated short, high-intensity efforts, typically of 30 seconds to three minutes. This happens in attacks, and in short, punchy climbs. Training must include this type of repeated high intensity, to bring sharpness to your racing and…