King of the hill: Dissecting the barmy British hill climb season with the reigning men's national champion Tom Bell. cycling
Just a handful of minutes is all it takes. So much chasing and preparation has gone into getting there, and then the crucial moment arrives. It’s all in; hot and sweaty, your heart is pumping and your body is throbbing and jittering with a mixture of agony and perverted ecstasy. If pulled off to perfection, it all ends in a pure adrenalin filled climax. If not, then it's doom and disappointment.
As the autumnal leaves begin to fall so the battle commences, and the gruesome yet alluring spectacle of pain and suffering on these skinny slopes begins. Even before the last of the leaves have fallen and Halloween comes around it’s all but over… at least until the next year, anyway. “Compared to other cycling disciplines, there are far fewer variables affecting the results. Of course, the mechanical nature and technical skills aspect of mountain bike racing, or the tactics involved in road races are what make them so dynamic and interesting, but there is something to be said about how hill climbs are stripped down and decided almost exclusively by the fitness of the rider and their overall body; and the weight of the bike, to a lesser degree.
“It meant a lot to win on such an iconic climb and to have it all come together on such a testing day from a weather perspective! “There are definitely plenty of nerves before any hill climb. You know that you don't have any margin for error with times being so tight and race distances being so short. You're always questioning whether you can produce a near-perfect performance.
“In terms of preparing myself for a hill climb, that's mostly based around making sure that I'm warmed up well and have eaten and drank enough.
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